Announcing the Creekside Campus!
Prepare your work outside, get everything ready…and after that build your house. Prov 24:27 The Grace Bible Church family is growing along with the Bryan/College Station community. In order to prepare...
View ArticleGod Laughs
ReDiscovered Word (Psalm 2)God laughs as they plan, as the nations and their kings plot destruction against His people. He laughs at the evil men who plan to destroy the people of the Cross, who plan...
View ArticleThe Prayer God Loves To Answer
ReDiscovered Word 19(1 Kings 3, James 1)There is a prayer God loves to answer, a request to which He eagerly answers, “Yes.”It is a prayer that was offered by Israel’s third king, and encouraged by the...
View ArticleAlways Present, Always in Control
ReDiscovered Word(Matthew 14:22-33; Psalm 139)There is nowhere you can go where Christ’s presence cannot follow. There is no crisis, big or small, from which He is absent.He is always present, and He...
View ArticleFive Questions to Ask Before You Speak
As a preacher and writer, I spend a good deal of my time thinking about words. I’ve always been a word guy, in fact, and I suppose that’s one reason I chose the profession I did.The best and worst part...
View ArticleThe Tomb is Empty, Our Hope is Full
The tomb is empty.Our hope is full.The Resurrection and the Life died a criminal’s death, broken and defeated. He lay three days in a rich man’s grave.The women, his friends, came to honor Him and to...
View ArticleEven the Wisest Person
ReDiscovered Word(1 Kings 11, Proverbs 2)Even the wisest person can become a fool.Solomon’s wisdom was vast, but he forgot its Source. He amassed wisdom and wealth and honor, but at some point he...
View ArticleI Can Tell You Of Hope
Note: I posted this on my personal Facebook page earlier in the week and felt it was worth reposting on my blog.Heavy week. Violence in Baltimore. Marriage debate before the Supreme Court. Natural...
View ArticleThe Only King We Need
(1 Samuel 8, 1-2 Kings, 1-2 Chronicles)When will we stop waiting for the next king, the next leader, the next hero to save the world?When will we learn that kings and rulers will never meet our...
View ArticleGrace Bible Church Statement on Same-Sex Marriage
As your elders and pastors at Grace Bible Church we feel it is important to respond to the recent legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide. There are a few things we would like you to know:First,...
View ArticleGod’s Image and the Gospel
Every human life is made in God’s image (Gen 1:26-27).Every man, woman, child, and infant carries the potential to eternally reflect God’s glory. Our bodies, minds and spirits are created to shine His...
View ArticleSkeletons At The Family Reunion
ReDiscovered Word(Matthew 1)Every family has skeletons in the closet. They even lurk at your family reunions. Whether you know it or not, your genealogy includes the names of men and women who were...
View ArticleThe Word Became Flesh
ReDiscovered Word (John 1)And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.He was there when God spoke the universe into being, full of power and glory and light, full of everything we think about when we...
View ArticleLet Down the Nets
ReDiscovered Word(Luke 5)“At your word, I’ll let down the nets,” Peter said.Having fished all night, having passed the optimal time of day for catching fish, having spent his entire life fishing, Peter...
View ArticleTossed by the Waves: Responding to Social Media Crises
It is no exaggeration to say that social media presents us with a new crisis every single day. We are constantly bombarded with information seemingly designed to provoke our outrage, fear, sympathy, or...
View ArticleLove, Mortality, and Aggie Football
I didn’t grow up watching Aggie football. My parents both went to Oklahoma, and neither of them were ardent fans of college football anyway. I remember watching college football each year on...
View ArticleAre We Building a Road or Just Scraping Dirt?
(This is a guest post by Brian Fisher, senior pastor of Grace Bible Church.)Today a friend said to me, “Brian, you should wash your truck.”My response: “What’s the point?”I admit that my truck is a...
View ArticleThe Biblical Command We Ignore
Consider this question for a moment:What biblical command is so difficult that we don’t merely disobey it, but we also routinely ignore it? It’s probably not what you think.After all, we Christians try...
View Article5 Recent Christian Albums Worth Hearing
Writing a blog post about one’s favorite recent Christian albums feels a little bit like writing about the best brands of VCRs for 2015. I’m aware that most people nowadays simply stream their music...
View ArticleThe Word of God is a Dangerous Thing
(Hebrews 4:12)The Word of God is a dangerous thing. You and I open it up, hoping to understand God, or maybe to find a little bit of inspiration to make it through another day.When we open those pages,...
View ArticleThree Reasons Jesus is Better than Santa
This is a guest post by Brian Fisher, senior pastor of Grace Bible Church.I like Santa. That is, I enjoy the idea of a guy from the North Pole riding a sleigh pulled through the air by reindeer,...
View ArticleThe Words a Father Needs to Hear
“You’re a good dad,” she told me. “Like, a really good dad.”It was the end of a long day, just like every day in the life of a busy family with three elementary school kids. We had finally completed...
View ArticleElection Season is a Big, Ugly Selfie
My seventh grade school picture was horrifying. My hair was a wavy rat’s nest, my braces cast a blinding glare, and my face was oily and reflective.The photo was so terrible, in fact, that I insisted...
View ArticleThe True Moral Fallacy of #JUSTICEFORHARAMBE
The death of Harambe the gorilla has taken the Internet by storm. If you somehow missed the story, you can find a summary of it here.It should come as no surprise that animal activists are outraged by...
View ArticleThe Three Stages of Salvation
The concept of salvation in the New Testament can be somewhat confusing. This is because salvation is actually a process that begins at the moment of conversion (justification) when God declares us...
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