Beginning in April, there will be an important change in our GRACE outreach ministry. This evangelism ministry has been in place since 2007 and has served our community and our church well.  Four outreach teams go out every week to follow up with those who have visited Morningview and to make evangelistic contact with families that are new to the community.

G.R.A.C.E. teams will meet on Sundays at the church at 3:30 pm and will return by 5:00 pm in time for M.I.T.  Each team will go out into the community once each month.  Share the gospel of Jesus Christ and pray about your involvement in this great ministry opportunity. Call the church or look for sign-ups coming in the following weeks during Sunday morning service.

I would argue that the best method of evangelism is what we might call “integrated evangelism,” which involves living like Christ and speaking of Christ at the baseball fields, in restaurants, in our business relationships, at the workplace, and with our neighbors as we go about all of life. It means looking for opportunities to serve others and meet the needs of those around us every day, doing good in the name of Jesus Christ. We ought to become strategic about faithful presence and proclamation in every aspect of life. But, if you can’t (more…)

Biblical accountability in the church is a beautiful expression of love.  It really is.  As you well know, church discipline or church accountability fell by the wayside in our Baptist churches in the early to mid 1900’s.  From that point forward, the rate of unregenerate church membership increased steeply and the moral state of the church became largely reflective of the moral state of our lost culture.  Thankfully, that trend is being slowly reversed.  A revival of this practice has begun (more…)

Next month, we are instituting and important change in our GRACE outreach ministry.  We have had this Evangelism ministry in place since 2007, and it has served our community and our church well.  For our newer members, GRACE is a ministry composed of 4 outreach teams (Designated by G, R, A and C) and one prayer team (Designated by E).  One of the (more…)

This past Sunday, I preached the second of two sermons on false teachers.  These two sermons provided good opportunities for us to consider the common traits of false teachers as well as (more…)

Are you looking for a good book to read? Do you want to know Christ’s beauty, glory, and sweetness more thoroughly? Then, let me recommend Kris Lundgaard’s Through the Looking Glass available in the Aletheia Center at a discounted price of $10.00. Lundgaard has taken the theological principles of John Owen’s work, The Glory of Christ, and put them into plain language that any believer from mid-teens through adults could handle. Get yours this Sunday!