Women's Ministries: Recent Episodes
Grace Community Church
In what ways are you wallowing in self-pity? You don't need others to validate you or sympathize with you. You need to be admonished to endure, to be strong, and to press on to the obedience of Christ.Keywords: Self-pity, suffering, difficulties, feeling sorry for myself, pride, be strong
A discussion of the topic of forgiveness; when we are not willing to forgive, it can easily lead to bitterness. We covered the incredible forgiveness that God has given us and the call that we have to be like our Savior and to forgive others.Keywords: Bitterness, forgiveness
Spiritual gifts are given by God and are empowered by the Holy Spirit for the benefit of others in the church body. As the day draws near, it is our responsibility to depend on the Lord through prayer, to love one another, and to use the gifts we have been given to serve each other.Keywords: Spiritual gift, serve, grace, prayer, love
As we consider our own families and our own church family here at Grace Community Church, it is vital that we go to the word of God to see what His revealed will is and how we can obey it. In this portion of Psalm 78, Asaph gives four calls to Israel that we would benefit greatly in heeding as we think through the discipline of nurturing and most importantly, nurturing our children’s souls.Keywords: Nurturing Children's Souls
Let us learn to deny ourselves for the sake of Christ and to follow his example, dying daily so that our lives will bring forth much fruit. Weather we are married, single, widowed, or divorced, God has sovereignly and lovingly given us the opportunity to be like our savior in dying to self so that our lives will bear fruit for his glory.Keywords: Marriage, single, divorced, widowed, death to self, bearing fruit, deny self deny yourself
Believers are instructed in Scripture to love one another in the body of Christ and to serve one another for the purpose of unity in the church body and the godliness of each individual.Keywords: Love, church, church body, unity
Envy is an alarmingly common and insidious sin that often goes undetected in our hearts. By comparing our lives to the blessings and benefits of others, it is easy to lose sight of God's goodness to us. This often results is the sin of envy, destroying our fellowship with God and with others.Keywords: Envy, jealousy, coveting, comparing
In this passage, we are going to see three blessings for believers that are outcomes of our justification by faith – peace with God, access to grace and hope that does not disappoint.Keywords: Perseverance, justification, peace, grace, hope
King Nebuchadnezzar gives glory to the true King of Heaven by recounting the "signs and wonders which the Most High God has done for" him. There is a stern warning that "He is able to humble those who walk in pride." Keywords: Sovereignty, Pride, Transformation, Warning, Humility
The goal of this lesson is to provide an overview of the Bible, primarily focusing on the old testament. By presenting a chronological timeline of key events, characters, and books of the Bible, this message is geared to enhance the listener's overall understanding of how the Bible fits together.Keywords: Overview, survey, Old Testament
When we renew our minds, we are transformed becoming on the outside who we are on the inside. This is made evident as we offer our bodies to God as a living and holy sacrifice, which is our logical, rational, reasonable act of worship to Him for all the mercies he has poured out upon us. Keywords: Living sacrifice, worship, mercies, mercy, body, conformed, transformed, world
This message answers three questions regarding the topic of contentment in marriage. Why should we learn contentment? What do we need to do to cultivate contentment? How do we put on righteous living that leads to contentment?Keywords: Contentment, discontentment, world, distraction
We must pursue Christ to such a degree that we are fully satisfied in him so that we not only recognize the deceitful worldliness in our society, but we must learn to hate it and abstain from it for the glory of God. Keywords: World, worldliness, satisfaction, satisfied, suffering, Satan
Believers are commanded in scripture to confront one another in their sin. This includes husbands and wives. The requirement for the one confronting is to be spiritual, using gentleness. The goal is to help restore the sinning believer back into fellowship with the Father and other believers.Keywords: Spiritual, restoration, confront, restore, gentleness
It is with the vision of Christ on His throne, full of compassion and care as we turn to look at our own hearts and tongues and focus our minds on the necessity of taming our tongues. We will first look at two thoughts about the tongue, then ten provoking proverbs about the tongue and then finally two tips in our striving to tame the tongue.Keywords: Tongue, slander, gossip, speech, Wisdom, Kindness
Identifying slander and sinful judging in the heart and humbling ourselves before God, the True Righteous Judge. Keywords: Judging, Slander
Sinful conflict occurs when we place our personal desires above God's will and the needs of other people. To make matters worse we often continue in sin by not responding unbiblically in the midst of the conflict. Discover what scripture has to say about resolving conflict.Keywords: Conflict, disagreements, desire, listen, forgive
“The heart of the problem is a problem of the heart.” (Stuart Scott) The world's methods are coping or avoiding techniques but do not deal directly with an angry heart. These methods just pacify the angry heart until the next time it is angry!! If we are to be imitators of God and if we are to be holy as God is holy, then we need to know how His anger is righteously displayed and executed.Keywords: Sinful Anger, Trust in the Lord, Patience
Communication is the means God has given us to have an intimate knowledge of one another in marriage. To achieve relational intimacy through conversation, there are several important aspects of communication that must be present in our marriages --- a desire for God's glory, humility, love, honesty, self-control, and listening.Keywords: Honestly, self-control, edifying words, listening, anger, excessive speech
A walk through Proverbs to help us wrap our minds around what it means to be an angry, contentious woman. We have three thoughts as we walk through – warnings to the wise, a disturbing description and a delightful difference.Keywords: Contentious wife, Anger, Irritability, Arguing, quarreling
Samson was given everything he could have possibly needed to live for God and become the deliverer of his people. Yet sadly, because he lacked self-control, his life stands instead as an example of what not to do--a warning to us to cultivate self-control.Keywords: Self-control, discipline, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, pride of life
This lesson includes practical instruction on how to eliminate sinful thinking regarding sexual intimacy, while also providing specific encouragement for wives to sacrificially and lovingly give themselves freely to their husbands for God's glory.Keywords: Sexual intimacy, desires, thinking, love
Learn about the importance of contentment from the Israelites who rejected God by seeking to be like their godless neighbors.Keywords: Contentment, thankfulness, God's goodness, idolatry
Christians must guard against subtle influences of the world regarding sexual intimacy. Instead they must look to Christ in Scripture to understand God's design and purpose.Keywords: Intimacy, sex, love
Does your life reflect a godly dependence and trust in God that is free from worry and anxiety? When we become distracted we lose sight of our most important priority, and we fail to focus on the one thing that is most important. This message takes a close look at the contrast between Mary and Martha's response to Jesus.Keywords: Priorities, distractions, worry, anxiety, worship
As we consider the “evil of our own heart” (for more we know of ourselves, the more we shall prize and love Jesus and His salvation) and our passage in Romans, Paul gives us three commands of our service and reveals to us that who you obey is who you serve.Keywords: Sin, Righteousness, Unrighteousness, Sanctification, Slaves
Scripture describes various relationships where submission is commanded. One of them being a wife submitting to her husband. Characteristics of submission, motivation for submission, and hindrances to submission are addressed in this message.Keywords: Submit, respect, chaste, gentle spirit, quiet
A look at one of the many passages that speaks of the love of God for us. We will be “praying for a coal of fire from the heavenly altar to send us home in a flame of love to Him who has thus loved us” as we see how God’s love was manifested and how God’s love was demonstrated. (John Newton quote)Keywords: God's Love, Salvation, Trust, Propitiation
What is it that we want? What motivates us to continue in patterns of sin such as discontentment, unthankfulness, lack of self-control, anger, gossip, and resentment, etc.? Our desire to please God must surpass all other desires if we are going to deny the sinful momentary impulses that delight our senses and provide instant gratification.Keywords: Desire, lust, deceit, delight, thoughts
Christian marriages often struggle not because of big things like infidelity but because of a thousand little things that fail to demonstrate Christlike love to one another. Wives should endeavor to love their husbands by laying aside selfish pursuits and desires for the purpose of helping them to become more Christlike.Keywords: Love, Respect, Husband, Marriage
The difficulty of persecution is contrasted with the opportunity to live and share the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ to a lost and dying world. Keywords: Persecution, weakness, jars of clay, affliction, gospel
In order to know if our wisdom is from above in our peacemaking, James gives a challenge and then a contrast. Keywords: Peace, Wisdom
God has designed the role of a wife to compliment the role of the husband. Although a wife is designed to be a helper to her husband she is still equal in value with her husband. A godly wife who lives within the role God has designed is a blessing to her husband as she keeps the home and cares for his children. Keywords: Wife's role, helper, excellent wife, value of a godly wife, keeper of the home, bear and nurture children
NOTE: FIRST 10 MINUTES DID NOT RECORD. In thinking of our motivation for purity and pure hearts, we are going to see in chapter three of 1 John the magnitude of His love, our transformation at His appearing and our preparation for His appearing. Keywords: Pure, Heart, God's Love, Christ's Appearing
This is a topical study through scripture to discover the way women are portrayed in Scripture. From God's creation of women in His image to Jesus's compassionate care for women in the New testament, the Bible consistently portrays women as having equal value with men even though their rules are different. Keywords: Complementarian, egalitarian, Evangelical feminist, modesty
As one considers what it is to hunger and thirst after righteousness, it is helpful to look at Isaiah 55:1-2 and see one gracious invitation, a two-part question and then three commands. Keywords: Righteousness, Justification, Sanctification, Hunger, Thirst
Like a mother who tenderly nourishes her baby, Paul exhibited gentleness by tenderly loving and caring for the Christians at Thessalonica, setting the example for us to follow. Keywords: Gentle, gentleness, leadership, love, affection
Marriage has been designed by God for his glory and our good. And are good always involves spiritual growth and conformity to the character of Christ. Keywords: God's glory; The Church; Conformed to Christ
As we grow in our awareness of personal sin against our holy God it results in mourning over our sin with a desire to turn from it in repentance. Keywords: Sin, mourning, presumptuous sins, sinful thoughts, omission, suffering
Our sin will destroy our marriages. We must be willing to take full responsibility for our own sin against God and against our husbands. Keywords: Sin, war, heart, deceitful, blame-shifting, repentance
God's splendor shines through His majesty, His creation and through His promise in the beginning verses of the last chapter of Isaiah. Keywords: Worship, Humility, Pride
For those of us who may be struggling to understand the blessed state we possess in Christ, the book of Hebrews has two encouraging truths about drawing near to a faithful God and holding fast to our confession of hope. Keywords: Justification, Doctrine, Blessed, Hope, Christ's Sacrifice, Christ's Priesthood
The purpose of marriage is God's glory and when we pursue our own selfish desires, even ignorantly, we harm our marriages. Keywords: Selfishness, pride, God's glory, fear of the Lord
True believers are blessed/happy because their confident hope is in an eternal inheritance that has been reserved for them in heaven by the power of God. Keywords: Hope, inheritance, kingdom, blessed, happy
Run the race by focusing on one thing by pressing forward and not looking behind, fixing your gaze on Jesus Christ. Regardless of our circumstances, our goal should be to reflect the heart of Christ in a thousand little things. Keywords: Goal, Prize, Christlikeness, Character, Run, Proper Perspective