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Join Us For Kids4Truth at Grace Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona

Sundays, 6:00-7:00 P.M.

The Kids4Truth Clubs are an exciting way for local churches to teach boys and girls 120 of the most important truths of Scripture in an understandable, useful, and memorable way.

Our K4T Club will include fun, games, music, and most importantly, the awesome opportunity to learn the Word of God in a unique way!  Don’t miss your chance to earn awards and participate in this great club.

Kids4Truth Clubs will be provided for children ages 3 years – 8th Grade.

Visitors are always welcome!

Please check out the Kids 4 Truth website.

Also, thanks to all our helpers from Grace!

This year, we’ll be finding treasures in God’s Word.  Come and find out what God says about Himself, and about the greatest treasure of all, Jesus Christ.

V.B.S. is for all children ages 3 through 6th grade.  And of course, parents are welcome to stay and have fun, too.  If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Invite your friends and neighbor’s kids, too!

*Special Note*

Winter Schedule

January 14
January 28
February 11
February 25
March 10
March 31

Have questions about who God is?
Want to know God more?
Want to grow in your love for God?

Than join of us for a monthly Bible Study
On the names of God.

Names have meaning.

God
Jehovah
Adonai

We will study the meanings behind these names
to not only know the right things about our God,
but to feel the right way about Him, as well.
We live in a culture that makes God into its own image,
Come and learn what God has said about Himself so that
We can worship Him in Truth.

Bible Study 10:00-11:00 am
Coffee and Doughnuts/Pastries served at 9:30 am

On Sunday mornings, our church family is studying the book of Romans.   In the first chapter, Paul gives the reason for his writing and the main theme of the entire book.

Romans 1:15-17 So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.

The theme of the book of Romans is the good news of the Gospel, for in it we find the righteousness that comes from God and the glorious truth that God justifies the guilty by grace alone through faith in Christ alone.

We invite you to join us each Sunday morning as we walk our way through the most precious truths of the Christian faith.

Pastor Dick Briningstool: Faith Baptist, Glendale

Pastor Terry Green: Victory Baptist, Casa Grande

IBC Summer Ministry Team

Pastor Jim Smith: Sahuaro Baptist, Tucson

Enjoying a beautiful spring Arizona day.

The Conference theme is…

Being Tougher than Your Times:  Spiritually Thriving During Difficult Days

The Conference Schedule is…

Friday, March 26th

• 3:00   Arriving and Fellowship
• 4:00   Session 1: Learning from Job -   Pastor Dick Briningstool, Faith Baptist- Glendale
• 5:30   Fellowship and Dinner
• 6:45   Favorite Hymns
• 7:00  Session 2: Learning from David -   Pastor Jim Smith, Sahuaro Baptist – Tucson
• 8:30  Snacks and Fellowship

Saturday, March 27th

• 8:00   Breakfast and Fellowship
• 9:00   Session 3:  Learning from Daniel -   Pastor Jim Wood, Calvary Baptist – Mesa
• 10:15  Snacks and Fellowship
• 10:45  Session 4:  Learning from Paul -   Pastor Christopher Leavell, Grace Baptist – Tempe

James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

The point of the book James is not to show us the standard that we must try through our own strength to emulate, but to drive us to the point of genuine repentance.

James 4:8-10  Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.  Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.  Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.

It is only when we agree with God about our true condition that He will lift us up.

Praise God for His grace.

Please let us know if you will be able to attend!

It was first published in Faith Pulpit but was reprinted in the Sept/Oct ’09 issue of the Baptist Bulletin.

Here is an excerpt…

Post-Christian culture

Most cultural critics (both secular and Christian) predict that our Western culture will continue to move away from its Judeo-Christian foundations. Now, at last, the long shadow of Constantine fades in the twilight of Western civilization. The emerging “post-Christendom” culture is built upon its own religions: worship of self, worship of ease and comfort, worship of entertainment and pleasure, and worship of unencumbered individual freedom. As this continental drift continues, those who would attempt to parrot popular culture and remain unapologetically Biblically faithful will find that not even Atlas could straddle the great divide.

Nevertheless, in hopeful confidence, I believe that (should the Lord tarry) out of the ashes of “post-Christendom” culture will arise churches that function not as political or social power brokers, but as countercultural communities of sacrificial faith and genuine spirituality. As local churches cultivate flourishing examples of authentic, Biblical community, they will be able to disciple new converts in the Christian totality of communally transmitted values, virtues, moral habits, and behavior patterns. In a sense, the lines in the sand will be drawn for us by the cultural process of “post-Christianization.” Being fully Christian will require not fully enjoying our culture’s ephemeral pleasures and not being fully accepted by society. No attempt to cavort with Christian celebrities, athletes, politicians, and popular artists (or to mimic the latest trend by merely glazing on a religious veneer) will be able to mask the truth that being a committed follower of Christ will not be “fashionable.” Churches will earn a hearing not because they blindly imitate culture, but because they provide a distinctive alternative for those left thirsty by cultural cisterns that cannot hold soul-satisfying water.