Midweek @ Grace
Friday, May 23, 2014
@6:15 AM – Men’s Fellowship & Bible Study, The Hard Sayings of Jesus
This week: “If your hand offends you, cut it off – Let the dead bury the dead – Unless your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees”

Coming Up @ Grace
Memorial Day Weekend – Sunday and Monday, May 25 and 26, 2014
Our morning schedule…
@9:30 – Worship
@10:45 – The Lord’s Supper
@11:15 – Testimonies: Jeff Dennis and Rebecca Nelson
@11:30 – The Testimony of Baptism @ Drakes Creek
Join us as we celebrate the work of God’s grace in the lives of these two individuals; Drakes Creek at Phil Moore Park / Olde Stone. Please see Pastor Dennis if you need directions.
All afternoon and evening ministries are dismissed for Memorial Day. The Grace Office will be closed Monday, May 26.
Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31)

Family Matters
Home Fellowship Groups – Don’t miss signups this weekend (5/25) – space is limited! Look for the signup table in the lobby. Host Families Still Needed! If you would like to host a fellowship group, please reply  to this email and someone will get in touch with you.

Pastor Steve Recommends
I Am a Christian, and a Christian I Shall Remain
Jesse Johnson writes of the reality of Christian persecution in Sudan. Jesse writes: “Meriam Yehya Ibrahim is married, 27-years-old, mother to a 20-month old son, 8-months pregnant, and last week was sentenced to death for being a Christian.” Read it and pray for Meriam.

The Word is a Seducer
Ligonier Ministries posted this excellent piece from R. C. Sproul that reminds believers of the threat of the seduction of the world. R. C. writes: “The world is a seducer. It seeks to attract our attention and our devotion. It remains close at hand, visible and enticing. It eclipses our view of heaven. What is seen vies for our attention. It entices our eyes, preventing us from watching for a better country whose builder and maker is God. It pleases us—much of the time, anyway— and, alas, we often live our lives to please it. That is where conflict ensues, for pleasing the world seldom overlaps with pleasing God.”

False Teacher – Joseph Smith
As we continue our re-post of Tim Challies “Famous False Teachers” series, we look today at Joseph Smith. Challies writes: “The heart of Joseph Smith’s false teaching was that he put his own authority over the authority of Scripture. He added his own revelation to the Bible’s revelation and took it upon himself to identify and correct what he claimed were errors in Scripture. Smith believed that the Bible was corrupt and insufficient and for that reason both took away from, and added to, God’s written revelation.”