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TIM
CAMPBELL
LEAD PASTOR
KIM
MAULDIN
CHILDREN’S
PASTOR
AUSTIN
GREEN
STUDENT
MINISTRIES
PASTOR
DEBBIE
HERRINGTON ADMINISTRATIVE
ASSISTANT
SHERRY
CAMPBELL
WORSHIP
SANDY
CORDER
HOUSEKEEPING
KAREN
HINDER
ACCOUNTING
GRACE CHURCH 2320 Sleepy Hill Rd Lakeland, FL 33809
863.853.9279
Sundays: 10:00 AM Students: 6:00 PM
Wednesdays: 6:00 PM Students: 6:00 PM
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Prayer Request Praise Report
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STEWARDSHIP UPDATE
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Stay Connected @ Grace Church There are several ways for you to stay connected to what is happening at Grace Church. Our church website
(www.HisGrace.com) has links to the sev-eral ministries of Grace Church, missions, upcoming events, and the Sunday morn-ing sermons to listen online. Also, “like” the Grace Church Facebook page — this is a semi daily update of activi-
ties and news from the church. You may also request the Grace Church Prayer Chain E-Mail. This e-mail is sent a few times dur-ing the week and is a great way to pray for your church family. You may be added to the list by send-ing a request to [email protected]. Take advantages of these opportunities and stay in touch with what’s hap-pening at your church.
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Birthdays; 6 David Mauldin 10 Marverie Hewitt 13 Dave Goossen 13 Lynette Portell 15 Debbie Tanyer 15 Gwen Mauldin
17 Lisa Baker 29 Robert Mosley, Jr Anniversaries: 20 Bill & Lucinda Farris 24 Sam & Angela Wright
SUNDAYS MORNINGS @ 10AM IN JANUARY
12.16.18
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Women’s Christmas Luncheon
Home Group Information
Tuesday Night (Baker)
Saturday Night (1/3) (Sabatier-Smith)
Saturday Night (2/4) (Herrington)
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FILL OUT & PLACE IN OFFERING OR THE
OFFERING BOXES ON BACK WALLS
TODAY
9:30A Coffee/Fellowship
10:00A Worship Celebration
MONDAY
No Events
TUESDAY
6:46P Home Group (Baker)
WEDNESDAY
6:00P Family Christmas Fun
Caroling, Cookies & Cocoa
THURSDAY
No Events
FRIDAY
No Events
SATURDAY
No Events
TODAY
Christmas FUN For the
WHOLE Family!
THIS WEDNESDAY @ 6:00 PM
Caroling, Cookies & Cocoa We will meet at the church for a quick “rehearsal” of some
traditional Christmas songs, then proceed to a nearby neighborhood for some old fashioned Christmas caroling. We will come back to the
church for some Christmas cookies and cocoa fellowship.
Wednesday Classes Adults | Youth| Kids
RESUME BACK ON
Wed, Jan 9, 2019 NEW TIME @ 6:30 PM
5:00 PM
Sunday, Dec. 23
Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh By John Piper When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. After com-ing into the house they saw the Child with Mary His mother; and they fell to the ground and worshiped Him. Then, opening their treasures, they present-ed to Him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. —Matthew 2:10–11
God is not served by human hands as though he needed anything (Acts 17:25). The gifs of the magi are not given by way of assistance or need-meeting.
It would dishonor a monarch if foreign visitors came with royal care-packages. Nor are these gifs meant to be bribes. Deuteronomy 10:17 says that God takes no bribe.
Well, what then do they mean? How are they worship? The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same
way that fasting is. When you give a gift to Christ like this, it’s a way of saying, “the joy that I pursue (verse 10) is not the hope of getting rich with things from you. I have not come to you for your things, but for yourself. And this desire I now intensify and demonstrate by giving up things, in the hope of enjoying you more, not things.
By giving to you what you do not need, and what I might enjoy, I am say-ing more earnestly and more authentically, ‘You are my treasure, not these things.’” I think that’s what it means to worship God with gifs of gold and frankincense and myrrh.
May God take the truth of this text and waken in us a desire for Christ himself. May we say from the heart, “Lord Jesus, you are the Messiah, the King of Israel.
All nations will come and bow down before you. God wields the world to see that you are worshiped. Therefore, whatever opposition I may find, I joyfully ascribe authority and dignity to you, and bring my gifts to say that you alone can satisfy my heart, not these.”
Third Sunday of Advent Sunday, December 16, 2018
