As we wrap up our series entitled “Changed by Grace” and our case study of the Apostle Peter, who God radically transformed, we’re not surprised to find the topic of Peter’s final sermon/last will: how we change.

Changed by Grace: A Final Word on Change

The previous weeks’ study for our community groups was focused on What are Community Groups are in light of Grace DC’s core values. If your group didn’t get a chance to do that study, please take the time to do that study this week.

What Are Community Groups? – A Discussion Guide

Need a refresher on leading the study? Check out our overview here.

Bias toward others because of skin color, ethnic background, social status, etc. is perhaps the most stubborn area of change. Yet, it’s God’s test case for the early church and in the life of Peter.

Changed by Grace: Overcoming Our Bias

Last week’s study for our community groups was focused on What are Community Groups are in light of Grace DC’s core values. If your group didn’t get a chance to do that study, please take the time to do that study this week.

What Are Community Groups? – A Discussion Guide

Need a refresher on leading the study? Check out our overview here.

Peter’s sermons are a clear example of how Jesus forgave and restored him.  He preaches with such boldness and grace.  From his words, we learn how to be changed by God.

This week’s study for our community groups is focused on What are Community Groups are in light of Grace DC’s core values.

What Are Community Groups? – A Discussion Guide

Need a refresher on leading the study? Check out our overview here.

It’s not uncommon these days to hear or learn about the moral fall of a public figure. The media reports the details, the response of the spouse, perhaps an apology, and, sometimes ,we’re given a short back page follow up on the life of the fallen–one has reinvented himself, another lives life in the wings, another sinks further and further down.  But, what does life after the fall look like for Jesus’ followers?

2.6.11 Changed by Grace: After the Fall

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The songs and poems of history are full of bold promises of love–of scaling mountains and crossing oceans.  However, our tests of love often come in much more subtle forms: loving through disappointment, putting others’ interests above our own, etc.  It is here we see the weakness of our love and it is in the weakness of our love that we begin to see the strength of God’s.

1.30.11 Changed by Grace: Learning Love

Need a refresher on leading the study? Check out our overview here.

Public service, non-profits, volunteer, faith-based–Washington is a city of service.  And, most people would see service the mark of a successful life.  But what really makes for “successful” service?

Our community groups are taking a break for the month a January to participate in our Winter Term; therefore, there will not be a sermon discussion posted.  You can learn more about our Winter Term or sign up for a class here.

Christ calls us to live in the world, but not of the world.  We have been freed from existing power structures through Christ’s mercy to us on the cross.  This frees us to live in the midst of these power structures and show mercy to others, especially the oppressed and marginalized.  We can put ourselves at a voluntary disadvantage and take great risks because we have a hope of a greater reward.

Our community groups are taking a break for the month a January to participate in our Winter Term; therefore, there will not be a sermon discussion posted.  You can learn more about our Winter Term or sign up for a class here.

The second coming/return of Jesus Christ to earth is usually handled in one of three ways.  The first is to dismiss it as a far-fetched religious myth.  The second is to obsess over it.  The third is to file it down the list of important beliefs. However, Jesus teaches us that we will lack something essential without it.

Our community groups are taking a break for the month a January to participate in our Winter Term; therefore, there will not be a sermon discussion posted.  You can learn more about our Winter Term or sign up for a class here.

Each of our lives tells a story.  Each day, another page is written and a theme is developed.  What story is your life telling?  Does your life say that God is your treasure?  Listen in to hear how we can begin to embrace the Kingdom standard for determining what is valuable.

Our community groups are taking a break for the month a January to participate in our Winter Term; therefore, there will not be a sermon discussion posted.  You can learn more about our Winter Term or sign up for a class here.

There are some lights–a marvelous sunset, the great northern lights, the city lights of Paris or NYC–that can only be described as “glorious.”  The words “light” and “glory” often find themselves together, and so it is in the Bible.  God’s glory is seeing Him in true light.  On what is called the “Mount of Transfiguration” Jesus provides a visual of this glory and through it we come to learn of our own.