March 11, 2022 The gospel is for your joy today and the joy of your friends who interact with you. Why was Paul eager to preach the gospel to believers in Rome who were already Christians (Romans 1:15)? Because God wants them and us to grab hold of the truth that the gospel is the power for our daily lives today and for those who interact with us. In other words, we cannot love the gospel and at t...  Read More

March 4, 2022 Hello Church Family: If you have ever made a wrong turn onto to the wrong road you quickly realize that you need to turn around and go back to get to the correct road so that you can get to where you are trying to go. This is also true when we consider salvation. The road to salvation must be the biblical gospel road or we will not arrive at salvation.   How do we make sure that we a...  Read More

February 25, 2022 Church Family: Do you ever feel the weight of shame from something in your past? Do you feel that God could never set you free from that shame? Do you feel like God would never use you in His kingdom work because of your history?The story of the Apostle Paul reminds us that God cares for the shamed through Jesus Christ. Jesus has come to cover your shame through His gracious clea...  Read More

February 18, 2022 Hello Church Family: Consider for a moment a few of the powerful works of the Holy Spirit in your life today.-All moral transformation in your life is the work of the Holy Spirit.-Every victory over sin is the work of the Holy Spirit.-Everything that you know about God is the work of the Holy Spirit.-Everything you know about Jesus is by the work of the Holy Spirit.-All your unde...  Read More

February 11, 2022 Church family, we are part of an outpost, the Grace Community Outpost. An outpost is known as a small military camp some distance from the main force or it is also known to be a remote part of a country or kingdom. As a local church, Grace Community Church of Topsail, we are called to be a remote outpost of the Kingdom of God behind enemy lines in this world.In our GCT outpost of...  Read More

January 4, 2022 Church Family: Did you know that everyday our Heavenly Father seeks people to worship Him (John 4:23)? Right now, whatever you are doing, wherever you are doing it and however you are doing it, our Father in heaven is seeking you to worship Him in Spirit and Truth. His desire is that you would worship Him in “whatever” you do (1 Cor. 10:31). "Whatever" are you doing right now? Is i...  Read More

January 28, 2022 Church family:Do you live your life trusting that you are counted as completely righteous by God by the faith that He has given you In Christ?Or do you live your life hopelessly and endlessly trying to achieve a holiness that you think will one day satisfy the Holy Creator God? As humans we were designed to work so that we can eat, survive and achieve. However, this God-given desi...  Read More

Church Family: The life that you and I have today is something we have done nothing to deserve. Each moment of our lives is a gift from God in His story of redemption. Our lives are a gift for a little time and one day those lives will be taken back for either the glory of God or for shame and everlasting contempt (Daniel 12:1-2). Daniel 12, is the chapter that is called, “The End.” God says there...  Read More

January 15, 2022 Church, God is the undefeated Champion:Today as a Christian you woke up and started making one decision after another to live your life the way God has called you to live your life - undefeated. You make every effort to live your life honoring to the undefeated King of Kings. And then at some point in your day you have a run in with one of the earthly kings of nations, politics, c...  Read More

January 7, 2022 Hello Church Family: Most likely, if you are reading this email, you also own an automobile of some kind. That is my guess. And if you own an automobile, you know the importance of regular preventative maintenance to keep your vehicle running smoothly and safely down the road. And if you don’t do regular maintenance you will find yourself broken down on the side of the road not goi...  Read More

December 31, 2021 Church family: It’s the last day of 2021. Have you accomplished everything you resolved in your mind to accomplish on New Year’s Day 2021, 364 days ago?Starting tomorrow, will you repeat the resolution process all over once more?New Year’s Resolutions can be good. Scripture even says it is good when we resolve to do things, when we set our heart upon something to accomplish it (P...  Read More

December 24, 2021 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom He is pleased!” This hymn of praise was so great that not just one angel but an heavenly army of angels sang it to the shepherds out in the fields that one December night that the Savior, Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, cam...  Read More

December 17, 2021 Hello Church Family: Have you ever received a “free gift” that was not free? I can remember when I was an avid cereal eater, Frankenberry was my favorite, I would read the back of the box and be enticed to send off via mail a request for the free gift advertised. But, upon reading the fine print for this fine free plastic gift, that every boy wanted, I had to buy five more boxes ...  Read More

December 10, 2021 Church family: Would you please join me in this one question survey? Here is the one question:1- When meditating on the gospel of Jesus Christ which of the following brings a greater sense of awe and amazement?a) A crucified God on Good Fridayb) A resurrected God at the empty tomb on Easter Sundayc) A God becoming human on Christmas morningWait… wait… give that some thought, cont...  Read More

December 3, 2021 Church family: It is very easy to ignore the constant spiritual warfare around us everyday. We are in a spiritual fight whether we acknowledge it or not. For example, it is very easy to only look at the “liberal” SCOTUS judges and think that they are the only ones standing in the way of defeating abortion in the USA. And it is easy to think that the shooting Wednesday, at the Oxfo...  Read More

Hello Church Family: God wants you to know who you are. You are the child of the living God who desires to do you good perpetually for eternity. Everything from God today, yesterday and tomorrow is good all the time. You have so much to be thankful for!  Even exile from a loving God is good for His children. As we discussed last week, God intended Israel’s exile for good for them and Daniel. God’s...  Read More

November 19, 2021 Church Family: Where is your daily sin struggle? Is your struggle with hopelessness, bitterness, anger, violence, laziness, greed, sexual immorality, judgmental words, anxiety, gossip, selfishness? Whatever may be your daily struggle, you must remember that God welcomes and invites you as you are burdened with sin. “Jesus has not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentan...  Read More

November 5, 2021 God sometimes flexes His sovereign muscles with very clear specifics to what is next in our lives. He did this in Daniel 8, when He gave Daniel the dream about the rise and fall of future kingdoms and kings. Why does He give such clear prophecy to Daniel? God wanted to encourage His people! His people had been in captivity for almost 70 years. They were being kept from worshipping...  Read More

October 29, 2021 Church family: Do you know who the top three most winning college football teams are in the history of NCAA games? Are you ready? As of today, first place goes to University of Michigan with 978 wins. Second place goes to University of Alabama with 938 wins. Third place goes to Ohio State with 936 wins. That is very impressive, but you know what? Each one of these top three winnin...  Read More

October 22, 2021 As I write this, there are seventeen Christian missionaries being held hostage in Haiti by a violent Haitian gang who holds them for ransom at a price of one million dollars each. These hostages include four children and a baby. When events like this happen in this chaotic world what does God want us to think? What does God want these seventeen missionary hostages to think as they...  Read More

October 15, 2021 Church family: When is it good and righteous for believers to defy the government? We know that there are several scriptures throughout the Bible that command Christians to submit to the ruling authorities (i.e., Romans 13:1-7). Paul, who wrote Romans, commands believers to obey the government. However, Paul made that command presuming that rulers would be fulfilling the task that...  Read More

October 8, 2021 Church Family: One of God’s names He uses for Himself is Jehovah Jireh which means, The LORD will provide or The LORD will see to it. That name is to be an encouragement for us. God wants you to know right now that He is seeing to "it!" Whatever “it” is that you are struggling with, He is seeing to “it.” He is not a passive participant in “it.” He is bringing “it” about purposefull...  Read More

October 1, 2021 Church family: We have great hope in this truth! There is no such thing as authority that is not under the rule of God the Father. This is what it means to be God. He is sovereign over the whole world and everything that happens in it, including earthly kings. Our Sovereign God is never frustrated, vulnerable or defeated by earthly rulers. God is never backed into a corner where He...  Read More

September 24, 2021 Wow! What a story, Church!Most likely, we have all read it before. In Daniel chapter three, we find a story that never gets old and is applicable for every generation over the last 2700 years since this story occurred. King Nebuchadnezzar and the leaders of Babylon demanded that everyone living under their leadership, including those worshippers of Yahweh, must do three things o...  Read More