Friday, July 3:
7:00pm Agape Myanmar Church Prayer Meeting
Saturday, July 4: Independence Day
The Men’s Ministry will not meet this month.
Sunday, July 5:
9:30am Bible Study (Classes for all ages.)
10:45am Worship Service and KidsWorship
The Praise Team leads worship with “The Way”, “We Bow Down”, “The Wonderful Cross”, “The Power of the Cross” and “Trust and Obey”. Closing Song: “Be Glorified”
We will celebrate the Lord’s Supper today.
Donnie's message is from Daniel 5: Everything Weighed by God.
2:00pm Agape Myanmar Mission Church
Wednesday, July 8:
5:00pm Youth Sports Nite (Grades 7-12)
Volleyball and/or basketball will be played outside until 7pm, weather permitting. There will be games inside in case of bad weather. Food and water is provided.
6:30pm Hallelujah Chorus
6:30pm Adult Bible Study
Thursday, July 9:
10:00am Dare to Care Mobile Food Pantry
Scheduled to be in the church parking lot at 10am, the food pantry may arrive as early as 9:30am.
Friday, July 10:
7:00pm Agape Myanmar Church Prayer Meeting
Sunday, July 12:
9:30am Bible Study (Classes for all ages.)
10:45am Worship Service and KidsWorship
2:00pm Agape Myanmar Mission Church
Monday, July 13:
6:30pm-8:30pm Emerald Crossing VBS (Age 3 through Grade 5)
In a world filled with worry and confusion, kids need to know there is a God who cares for them. At Emerald Crossing VBS, they’ll journey through Ireland’s lush landscapes, exploring the powerful words of Psalm 23. They’ll discover the life of the shepherd-king David and will learn how to cross from worry to peace, from fear to faith, and from uncertainty to a firm foundation in God’s Word through a relationship with the Good Shepherd.
Registration forms will be available on the front pew. Use them if you wish to invite a child to attend.
Tuesday, July 14:
6:30pm-8:30pm Emerald Crossing VBS (Age 3 through Grade 5)
Wednesday, July 15:
6:30pm-8:30pm Emerald Crossing VBS (Age 3 through Grade 5)
Freedom Worth Guarding
Because many Americans have never known life without freedom, it can be easy to take our liberties for granted. The Israelites, however, knew the harsh reality of slavery. Yet even after God led them out of Egypt, they struggled to embrace their newfound freedom. Faced with uncertainty, they grew fearful and complained against Moses and Aaron, longing for the familiarity of their former bondage rather than trusting God’s provision.
Their story feels surprisingly familiar. As Christians, we have been set free through a far greater deliverance. Our freedom was secured at a great cost through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And yet, we sometimes drift back toward old habits, attitudes and patterns that once held us captive.
Scripture reminds us to stand firm in the freedom we have been given. As Paul writes in Galatians 5:1, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.”
True freedom is not simply the absence of restraint. It is the opportunity to live fully in God’s grace, walking in obedience, joy and purpose. This kind of freedom is worth celebrating, protecting and living out every day.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
(John Adams)
It is not unusual that American Baptist preachers would support the cause of liberty. What about the English Baptist pastors on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean? In 1784, London Baptist John Rippon (who pastored the same church Charles Spurgeon would later serve) wrote a letter to the President of Rhode Island College (now Brown University). Rippon stated: “I believe all our Baptist ministers in town, except one and most of our brethren in the country were on the side of the Americans in the late dispute….We wept when the thirsty plains drank the blood of your departed heroes, and the shout of a king was amongst us when your well-fought battles were crowned with victory; and to this hour we believe that the independence of America will, for a while, secure the liberty of this country, but if that continent had been reduced, Britain would not have been long free.”
(Ben Stratton, pastor and a historian with the J.H. Spencer Historical Society.)
And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever: that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events: that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
(Thomas Jefferson, 1785, Notes on the State of Virginia. "Query XVIII," a chapter on the manners and impact of the institution of slavery.)
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Grace Community Baptist Church
7300 National Turnpike
Louisville, KY 40214-4326
Phone: 502 361-2911
Email: gcbc@gcbc.ws
Weekday Office Hours
Wednesday 9:00am - 12:00pm
Thursday 9:00am - 12:00pm
Friday 9:00am - 1:00pm
Closed Monday & Tuesday