Grace has been meeting publicly for a year now. And we’ve been doing it not because it’s our tradition to do so – because we are new – but because we are drawn here this morning by the resurrected and living Jesus Christ. This is the center that holds us together. We don’t have fences […]
Good morning and welcome to Grace Baptist Church. I would especially like to welcome our guests here this morning. Thank you for making the trip to be with us and celebrate this wonderful morning with our church and with this one we love, Aurelia. We’re in our 2nd week of Advent, that season wherein we take the […]
I’m sure you’ve heard the phrase “walking a mile in someone else’s shoes.” Well, sometimes you may walk the same mile, but the shoes you wear make all the difference. My wife and I like to take our dogs on a walk around San Gabriel Park, which is about 1.6 miles. When walking in tennis […]
Welcome….is a very common greeting or term of acceptance or receiving. It’s on our door mats, our name-tags, and on the wall of my favorite Mexican food restaurant on South 1st and Oltorf in Austin – “Bienvenidos!” The word is quite literally everywhere. But to me it’s a powerfully underrated word….welcome. You see, to be […]
I have this memory as a child of going to the mall with my family. It always seemed like a big deal when we went to the mall because we lived very simply, and plus the closest mall was an hour away from our small town. But when we went, it seemed to always be […]
Lately I’ve been thinking about how there is really something beautiful and mysterious in learning a lesson from a child. Beautiful because it often touches you right where you needed to be touched, and mysterious because I don’t think I’ll ever fully understand exactly when or how we come to leave behind the simplicities […]
