January 15, 2017
“God created the world…” JESUS MARK 13:19 For this is what the Lord says – he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty,...
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For everything God created is good… 1 TIMOTHY 4:4 Genesis 1 gives us a unique insight into God, and the obvious pleasure He derives from creating out of nothing a universe with stars and worlds and...
View ArticleJanuary 29, 2017
Then Job replied to the Lord: Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know. JOB 42:1-3 When Job offers his “mea culpa,” it is in reaction to a blistering litany of...
View ArticleFebruary 5, 2017
For this is what the LORD says– he who created the heavens, he is God; he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited— he says: “I...
View ArticleFebruary 12, 2017
“…they become one flesh…” GENESIS 2:24 “I do.” Made you think of the marriage vows, didn’t it? When those two words are said in the context of a wedding ceremony, it is a profound and holy moment, as...
View ArticleFebruary 19, 2017
“Did God really say..?” GENESIS 3:1 Is it possible that four words in a row could do more damage than these words did? A perfect garden setting was ruined, the relationship between God and man was...
View ArticleFebruary 26, 2017
“By one man’s disobedience, many were made sinners.” ROMANS 5:19 Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. “Paradise Lost”...
View ArticleMarch 1, 2017
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” HEBREWS 12:28 This coming...
View ArticleMarch 12, 2017
The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth. GENESIS 6:5 What did he do? How did God respond? Did he shrug? “There they go again.” Hardly. We know from Adam and...
View ArticleMarch 19, 2017
Noah did everything just as God commanded him. GENESIS 6:22 Do you ever think about what you might want written on your tombstone as an epitaph, or said at your memorial service? What greater tribute...
View ArticleA Message from the Grace Elders (LM)
3/9/17 Dear Grace La Mirada, Last night, following months of prayer and discussion, we decided to reunite Grace Fullerton and Grace La Mirada. We believe that this will best enable us to focus our...
View ArticleA Message from the Grace Elders (F)
3/9/17 Dear Grace Fullerton, Last night, after weeks of prayer and discussion, we decided to reunite our congregations. Thank you for the weeks of prayer, words of encouragement, and valuable feedback...
View ArticleMarch 26, 2017
But God remembered…. GENESIS 8:1 When our sermon series in Genesis left off last week, Noah’s ark was floating on the surface of the waters, populated by two of every kind of animal and eight people –...
View ArticleApril 2, 2017
Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of remembrance was written in his presence concerning those who feared the Lord and honored his name....
View ArticleApril 9, 2017
See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey… MATTHEW 21:5 This Sunday is Palm Sunday, the beginning of a week that rehearses the seven most significant days in a row this world has ever...
View ArticleApril 16, 2017
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days...
View ArticleApril 23, 2017
From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would...
View ArticleApril 30, 2017
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true....
View ArticleMay 7, 2017
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might. 2 THESSALONIANS 1:9 In The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis wrote, “There are...
View ArticleMay 14, 2017
“It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” ACTS 26:14 Testifying in front of King Agrippa, Paul recounted his conversion on the Damascus road and those words from the Lord Jesus himself that told...
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