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"Jesus is the Living Cornerstone" - 1 Peter 2:4-12 Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Living Holy Lives - 1 Peter 1:23-25; 5:6-11 Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Our Living Hope - 1 Peter 1:1-12 Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

1 Peter - Introduction Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Seeing Each Other Through God's Eyes - "Sometimes Even Christian Get It Wrong" Colossians 2:8 NIV See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. 1. Christians can get it wrong when we let culture shape us instead of Scripture. 2. Christians can get it wrong when we make human reasoning the starting point instead of Scripture. 3. Christians can get it wrong when we allow our experiences to define biblical truth instead of allowing biblical truth define our experiences. 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 NIV But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another.There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another.The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishableit is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in powerit is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven.As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven.And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. Isaiah 35:5-6 NIV Then will the eyes of the blind be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.Then will the lame leap like a deer, and the mute tongue shout for joy. Water will gush forth in the wilderness and streams in the desert. 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! Galatians 3:26-29 NIV So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faithfor all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise. Colossians 2:8 NIV See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ. Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Seeing Each Other Through God's Eyes - "One Body - Many Parts - All Needed" Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/ne...

Seeing Each Other Through God's Eyes - "Seeing Weakness Through God's Eyes" Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/ne...

Seeing Each Other Through God's Eyes - Part 1 Part 1 - "Made in the Image of God" John 3:16 NIV For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Romans 5:8 NIV But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. WHY DOES GOD LOVE YOU? Ephesians 2:8-10 NIV For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of Godnot by works, so that no one can boast.For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Defining a Theology of Disability "Studying Scripture to understand how God views and relates to those with disabilities, then applying that biblical understanding to a biblical worldview so that we as Christians not only learn how to view people with disabilities from a biblical perspective, but we learn how to see others through God's eyes." Genesis 1:26 NIV Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Psalms 8:4-5 NIV what is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?You have made them a little lower than the angels and crowned them with glory and honor. What does it mean to be made in the image of God? Why does God love you? God doesn't love you because of what you do... He love you because of who He is. Ephesians 1:4 NIV For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love How will you apply what you learned today? Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 19 PSALMS 20 For the director of music. A psalm of David. 1. May the Lord answer you when you are in distress; may the name of the God of Jacob protect you. 2. May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion. 3. May he remember all your sacrifices and accept your burnt offerings. 4. May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. 5. May we shout for joy over your victory and lift up our banners in the name of our God. May the Lord grant all your requests. 6. Now this I know: The Lord gives victory to his anointed. He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary with the victorious power of his right hand. 7. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 8. They are brought to their knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. 9. Lord, give victory to the king! Answer us when we call! Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 17 Psalm 17:1-15 ESV Hear a just cause, O LORD; attend to my cry! Give ear to my prayer from lips free of deceit!From your presence let my vindication come! Let your eyes behold the right!You have tried my heart, you have visited me by night, you have tested me, and you will find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth will not transgress.With regard to the works of man, by the word of your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent.My steps have held fast to your paths; my feet have not slipped.I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God; incline your ear to me; hear my words.Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wingsfrom the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me.They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly.They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground.He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush.Arise, O LORD! Confront him, subdue him! Deliver my soul from the wicked by your swordfrom men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness. A life of persistent problems demands a life of persevering faith. Three practical responses to persistent problems... 1. Persevering Prayer (Psalm 17:1, 6, 13) 2. Persevering Holiness (Psalm 17:1-5) 3. Persevering Confidence (Psalm 17:6, 8, 15) Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 16 PSALMS 16 1. Keep me safe, my God, for in you I take refuge. 2. I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3. I say of the holy people who are in the land, “They are the noble ones in whom is all my delight.” 4. Those who run after other gods will suffer more and more. I will not pour out libations of blood to such gods or take up their names on my lips. 5. Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure. 6. The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance. 7. I will praise the Lord, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. 8. I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. 9. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will rest secure, 10. because you will not abandon me to the realm of the dead, nor will you let your faithful one see decay. 11. You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Path #1 The path that leads away from God leads to sorrow. Path #2 The path that leads TO GOD lead to satisfaction. What does God provide? 1. Refuge in a time of trouble 2. A church family 3. For Our NEEDS 4. Wise Counsel 5. Comfort, Joy and Peace 6. Eternal Salvation Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 15 Psalms 15:1-5 NIV LORD, who may dwell in your sacred tent? Who may live on your holy mountain?The one whose walk is blameless, who does what is righteous, who speaks the truth from their heartwhose tongue utters no slander, who does no wrong to a neighbor, and casts no slur on otherswho despises a vile person but honors those who fear the LORD; who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mindwho lends money to the poor without interest; who does not accept a bribe against the innocent. Whoever does these things will never be shaken. "Right Living and Repentance are Essential to Feeling Comfortable in God's Presence." The Question: "Who may be in Your presence?" (vs. 1) The Answer: "Only those who live the right way." (vs. 2-5a) The Promise: "He who lives like THIS (a blameless life) - will never be shaken." (vs. 5b) 1 Peter 1:15-16 NIV But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you dofor it is written: “Be holy, because I am holy.” 2 Corinthians 5:21 NIV God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. Hebrews 4:15-16 NIV For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. What's your NEXT STEP? Write it out. Consider sharing this with someone you trust and will hold you accountable. Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 14 Psalms 14:1-7 NIV The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.The LORD looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there are any who understand, any who seek God.All have turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.Do all these evildoers know nothing? They devour my people as though eating bread; they never call on the LORD.But there they are, overwhelmed with dread, for God is present in the company of the righteous.You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the LORD is their refuge.Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad! "Only a FOOL would deny there is a God." Romans 3:21-23 NIV But now apart from the law the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.This righteousness is given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentilefor all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 2:8-9 NIV But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of Godnot by works, so that no one can boast. Matthew 7:21-23 NIV “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ Are you playing the part of the FOOL? Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 13 Psalms 13:1-6 NIV How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me?Look on me and answer, LORD my God. Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes will rejoice when I fall.But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me. "Greater HONESTY with God leads to Greater INTIMACY with God." 3 Steps of LAMENT that lead to greater intimacy with God. 1. Expressing how you really feel (Psalm 13:1-2) 2. Expressing what you really want (Psalm 13:3-4) 3. Expressing what is really true (Psalm 13:5-6) 1 John 5:14-15 NIV This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him. Colossians 4:6-7 NIV Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.Tychicus will tell you all the news about me. He is a dear brother, a faithful minister and fellow servant in the Lord. 1 John 1:2-3 NIV The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps

Summer in the Psalms - Psalms 12 Psalms 12:1-8 NIV Help, LORD, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.Everyone lies to their neighbor; they flatter with their lips but harbor deception in their hearts.May the LORD silence all flattering lips and every boastful tonguethose who say, “By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.”And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver purified in a crucible, like gold refined seven times.You, LORD, will keep the needy safe and will protect us forever from the wicked who freely strut about when what is vile is honored by the human race. When We Feel Outnumbered, Cry Out to God! When We Feel Outnumbered, Remember That Words have Tremendous Power! When We Feel Outnumbered, God Hears the Oppressed! When We Feel Outnumbered, God's Word is Completely Trustworthy! When We Feel Outnumbered, We Can Have the Confidence that God Preserves His People! Philippians 4:6-7 NIV Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Matthew 12:34 NIV You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. Mark 5:25-34 NIV And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years.She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloakbecause she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.”Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it.Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” John 14:6 NIV Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. John 14:15-17 NIV “If you love me, keep my commands.And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to help you and be with you foreverthe Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Romans 8:31-39 NIV What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. When deception surrounds us and faithfulness seems scarce, we can confidently trust God's Word and rest in his faithful protection. Bible Study Help This is a great Bible study tool. Just type in any question you have and you'll get a Bible based answer. https://www.gotquestions.org/ Visit our Website: https://www.gracefellowship.online Give Online: https://gfcharis.churchcenter.com/giving Prayer Requests: https://www.gracefellowship.online/next-steps