Summertime is often a time to disengage from the normal routines of life, work, and school. This summer, let’s re-engage in prayer together. Here are a few ways we can draw near to God in worship, fellowship, and the practice of asking him for our needs. 1. Set aside some...

Our service in the church includes praying for each other and pleading with each other. We pray to God on behalf of one another. We plead with each other on behalf of God. Praying keeps us in the truth. Pleading comes in when someone wanders from the truth. At the...

We benefit from reading the longer prayers of the Bible (the prayers of King David in 2 Samuel 7, King Solomon in 2 Chronicles 6, and Greater King Jesus in John 17). We also enjoy reading the prayers of others written in verse, like what we find in the Valley...

It’s always good to remind ourselves of what we do, and why and how we do it. At Grace Community Church we pray. This Sunday, from James 5, we will consider why we pray. Here are twelve ways we pray: 1. We pray during the Sunday morning worship service. The...

Advances in technology seem to have shortened the distance between then (the ideal world we are looking for) and now (the reality in which we live). We can travel to another continent in a day and communicate to someone on that continent in a second. Diseases that once killed are...

Few of us view ourselves as rich. But many of us have some form of riches. As those who hold the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, this requires us to consider the connection between love and money. James 5:1-6 is a hard word of denunciation toward “the rich.”...