GRACE !

Hey everyone,
What a great Sunday yesterday, worship was powerful, we sang the new song ‘broken vessels’ about the amazing grace of God as we started the journey of unpacking the ‘grace’ Series, looking at Grace through the eyes of Old Testament Characters. I preached on Adam and Eve and God’s Father ‘s heart, and how he cares and protects us even when we’ve messed up. In the evening service we looked at Abram and how he was chosen despite having done nothing for God and given outstanding promises. I love how Abram kept moving, whatever was going on in his life, despite his mistakes, he kept journeying. Whatever season you are in, attach faith to it and keep moving and believing, as Paul Scanlon says, ‘God is drawn to movement’.
See you in church!

ps its Connect Groups tomorrow night, another great way to explore this subject of grace.If you aren’t in a group, go to http://www.xcelchurch.com and see the locations there or give the centre a call.
Have a great week

John G

Hi Everyone,

What a great weekend we had last week with our ‘friends and family’ morning and Life Church Worship Tour on the evening!

Over One Thousand people in total over four services!

Let’s continue the momentum this weekend!

I’m excited that we are starting a new preaching series on ‘Grace’ this Sunday. It’s an epic subject and my heart is that we will always be a ‘house of grace’.

I am so thankful for the grace of God and I am believing that we will find ourselves more grateful, more gracious and growing in grace more and more as we take this journey to more understanding of God’s grace.

We all need God’s grace and we are going to be looking at it through the eyes of some great characters in the Bible, so expect some surprises and let’s enjoy the journey!!

We’re also giving out some ‘bags of hope’ from UCB to fill with sweets and give to children over the ‘halloween’ weekend.

See you in church!

Love John and Lisa