Grace Bible Fellowship

In the first installment of a two-part message, Brother Alan Simmons uses two passages of scripture, Psalm 34:17-18 and Psalm 147:1-8, as the focus of a powerful reminder of the need to praise the Lord and how our pride can often get in the way of our spiritual health. Rather than calling on the Lord when we realize we need His guidance, we usually rely on ourselves. Sometimes it is a lack of fait...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins with 1 Thessalonians 5:6-11 and shares observations on how artificial intelligence (AI) can be a tool that makes our lives easier or a tool of great evil. He highlights how both apostles Paul and Peter warn us to be sober-minded, or clear-thinking, when we are confronted with so-called "Christian messages" generated by AI. AI is not of God, but is progr...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins with a reading of Daniel 3:12-18 and focuses on the story of three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abendego. Carried away into captivity by the Babylonians, who made them eunuchs, and they served in the royal court of Nebuchadnezzar.  The other royal court officials who despised them devised a plot to rid themselves of the three Hebrew men. Bro. Alan examin...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins with a reading of James 1:19-26, and begins with an introduction of how easy it is to listen without hearing what's being said. We've all experienced this where someone will say something to us and we react without listening to what is being said. Often, our reaction is one of action, feeling the need to do something when all the other person really wan...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons shares how the book of James has a dual message for the believer and the church - the assembly of believers in the same chapter! Using chapter 5, Bro. Alan explains how the chapter is focused on how we, the individual believer, is to live a life as if we are ready for Jesus to return at any moment. He explains how this mindset is important because it affects e...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons shares an important message that asks a crucial question facing many believers today - do you want to be an apprentice or a workman? Using 1 Peter 2:2-3, he explains how the Lord does note expect us to learn everything there is to know about being a follower of Christ once we receive Jesus as our Lord and Saviour. But as Paul wrote in Hebrews 5:12-14, at some...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons concludes this final part of a five-part series on the life of the apostle Paul. Beginning with the reading of the key passage of scripture, 2 Timothy 4:1-8, Bro. Alan explains how Paul explained through each of his letters how the things we go through as believers - both victories, hardships, and our spiritual failures, are teaching tools for our personal min...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues on the fourth part of a five-part series on the life of the apostle Paul. In this installment, after re-reading 2 Timothy 4:1-8, Bro. Alan recaps what we've learned about Paul. We've reached the point where Paul knows there's more that the Lord wants from him. He knows that the Lord has called him for a specific purpose. Because of Paul's past, a Heb...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues the third part of the five-part series by reading 2 Timothy 4:1-8, a letter to Timothy written at the end of Paul's life. In this installment, we see how this man, who once persecuted those who spread the gospel of Jesus was now boldly sharing the gospel with everyone he met! Paul's conversion and excitement didn't start with his missionary journeys...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues in the second part of the five-part series by reading 2 Timothy 4:1-8, a letter to Timothy written at the end of Paul's life. Before Paul could begin his life as a missionary, spreading the gospel of his Lord, Jesus Christ, he had to be discipled in his new faith. For this task, the Lord chose Ananias, an older Christian in age and in the faith to te...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins this series by reading 2 Timothy 4:1-8, a letter to Timothy written at the end of Paul's life. Why begin a study of the life of Paul with a look at the end of Paul's life? In this passage, Paul wrote, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons concludes this series with the final part of a four-part series with a look at that unspeakable gift given by God to the world. For each of the other parts of this series, we've shared how in John 3:16-18, that gift given has been the source of our salvation. That first Christmas was about Jesus coming to seek and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10). As B...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the third part of a four-part series with a look at the important reminder of why the church - the local New Testament body of believers needs Christmas. Using John 3:16-18, 1 Corinthians 12:1-3, and 1 John 2:1-2, Bro. Alan shares how the church needs to use the Christmas season as an annual time of reflection and re-dedication to the charge our...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the second part of a four-part series with a look at the important reminder every believer needs every Christmas - the reminder of the importance to offer the Lord the sacrifices of thanksgiving and praise. Bro. Alan uses two people, Mary, the woman chosen to be the mother of Jesus, and Simeon, a elderly devout man of faith, and both were chosen...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins a four-part series on the need for Christmas. Using Isaiah 9:2-6 and John 3:16-17, Bro. Alan shares how it doesn't matter if Jesus wasn't actually born on December 25th as much as it does the reasons why Christmas is needed. Christmas is the recognition of the birth of Jesus, the Son of God and the fulfillment of promises made by God to Eve, Abraham, Da...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons shares, using stories from the lives of David and Jeremiah, how worries, doubts, and fears can cause numerous problems for us if we do not keep a proper focus. He shares how, if we lose perspective, we can become embittered, angry, and hurtful to our closest friends and family to the extent where they will avoid us. We can also reach the point where we will be...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons concludes this six-part series with a look at Jesus' rebuke of the Pharisees teachings of the Law of Moses regarding divorce. Considering themselves wise in understanding the Law of Moses, they neglected God's design for marriage in Genesis. Jesus' stern rebuke of their traditions, stemming from their interpretation of the Law, and his later rebuke of the Sadd...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the fifth part of a six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. In this installment, Bro. Alan provides a brief overview of the previous messages and proceeds to discuss why Adam was created before Eve. Adam was being taught, by God, to work and to be the spiritual protector of his future family...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the fourth part of a six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. In this installment, Bro. Alan provides a brief overview of the previous messages and proceeds to discuss why Adam was created before Eve. Adam was being taught, by God, to work and to be the spiritual protector of his future family...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the third part of a six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. In this installment, Bro. Alan briefly introduces the previous two parts, and introduces how God intentionally made men and women different than the rest of creation. Adam and Eve were not spoken into existence, as was everything els...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the second part of a six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. In this installment, Bro. Alan shares how the confusion we see in the world around us is not from God, because the Bible clearly tells us He is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). The confusion we see surrounding gend...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins a new six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. To do this, Bro. Alan takes us on a journey to the very beginning - to the Garden of Eden and begins with the creation of Adam and Eve and how the social movements of today seek to not only undermine God's plan but to offer one that promotes confusion, ha...

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons uses Psalm 13:1-4 to discuss an important issue we have all experienced at some point. We have all become angry with the Lord. Everyone has had the experience of praying for something to happen only to have it seem that the Lord ignored our pleas. And because we still have our old nature to deal with, we get angry with God. In this message, we see how Job, Pet...

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons uses Psalm 103:8-18 to introduce how we are to handle failure. Everyone has experienced failure, whether it's in our profession, our personal relationships, or our walk with the Lord. But what Bro. Alan points out in this message is how our failures can be more important than our successes because we learn a lot more from them. But if we are not careful, our fail...

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons begins by sharing two passages of scripture, Romans 8:26-28 and 2 Timothy 1:7-9, 12 and discusses how the Lord does not want us to suffer, but wants to give us what we need most - His healing love. He wants us to come to Him with all our physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds much the way a child comes to their parent or grandparent whenever they need comfort...