Grace Chapel Wilsonville

When the love of God is greater than the love of money, our earthly resources become heaven's resources. We must see our money as gateways to hell on earth or gateways to heaven on earth. With our money, we can release hell, or we can release Heaven.

“The primary reason we lose faith is because we forget the faithfulness of God. Maybe that's why the word remember is repeated 250 times in Scripture.” – Mark Batterson

The are 5 types of Churches: 1. Compromising Churches that partner with a Rebellious Spirit. 2. Complacent Churches that partner with a Reluctant Spirit. 3. Consumer Churches that partner with a Replacing Spirit. 4. Combative Churches that partner with a Religious Spirit. 5. Compelling Churches that partner with a Renewing Spirit. Compelling: "Evoking interest, attention, or conviction in a powerf...

Eventually, a post-Christian society moves from assuming Christian values to ignoring them, to resenting them, to repressing them, and eventually to persecuting them. What was once Christian and is now post-Christian will eventually become anti-Christian. 

Jesus will one day come back for His bride, the church. Scriptures teach us that we should be living with a posture of expectancy, watching, outpouring, encouragement, discernment, urgency, and hope.

Prayers For Peace Personally: You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in You. - Isaiah 26:3 Pray for Rest, Relationships, Inner Peace, Forgiveness, Hope, Healing In Our State: Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. - Philippians 2:3 ESV Pray for Schools, Businesses, Poverty, Crime, Civil...

Worldly Hope is based on circumstances; Faith Hope is based on character. Worldly Hope is focused on a desired outcome; Faith Hope is focused on a desired outlook. Worldly Hope is about minimizing disappointments; Faith Hope is about maximizing disappointments.  Worldly Hope is about narrow expectations; Faith Hope is about wide anticipations. What you call a hardship, heaven calls a harvest.

The goal of the Gospel is not to affirm your behavior, celebrate your lifestyle, or empower you to do whatever you want to do. The goal of the Gospel is to rescue you, transform you, and empower you to live fully the life of Jesus. Prayer of Salvation: Dear Lord, I admit that I am a sinner. I have done many things that don't please you. I have lived my life for myself only. I am sorry, and I repen...

"The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who are identified as Christians will become disciples students, apprentices, practitioners of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence." — Dallas Willard Prayer Prompt: “Lord, We give you thanks for the gift of commu...

The extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! If your heart is pure, it is impossible to miss God. He is just too big of a target. Where can you aim and not come in contact with Him? Where can you reach and not touch something that declares His existence? Where can you look and not see the fingerprints of...

Alignment through practices often moves us from the omnipresence of God to the manifested presence of God. Changes in alignment can be a bit subtle at first. You may not notice that your steering response has been negatively affected until you have to make an emergency maneuver and find yourself with no control over what your vehicle is doing. Discussion Questions: 1. In what areas do I feel my li...

Living the vision of Jesus requires partnering with the purpose, power, preparation, provision, people, and plan of Jesus. Discussion Questions: What areas of your life do you ache for transformation? What does living life in partnership with the Holy Spirit mean to you? What does living life in partnership with the purifying of Jesus mean to you? What does living life in partnership with the prac...

Ekplesso encompasses the ideas of wonder, astonishment, or amazement. It expresses a stunned amazement  that leaves the subject unable to grasp what is happening. Discussion Questions: 1. What storms in your life have shaken your faith foundation? 2. How has Jesus been a foundation in those storms? 3. What areas of your life are you needing to “practice” the way of Jesus? 4. What type of false aut...

False prophets create false problems in order to appear as true messiahs. If Satan cannot dethrone God in Heaven, he will try to dethrone God in hearts. Satan's strategy is simple: make sin look normal and righteousness look strange. Prayer Prompt: Heavenly Father, I ask that You would grant me a discerning heart. A heart that seeks to know You, and to know the truth of Your Word. But more than th...

"A critical spirit is a ravenous beast that devours many an honest effort, loving gesture, or kind deed with nary a backward glance. Threatening to steal the joy from everything that isn’t perfect and everyone who falls short of its expectations. It poisons every relationship it touches, because the pressure of an impossible standard is too heavy to bear. Those in relationship with one who possess...

An invitation to live a flourishing life.

Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

The Bible tells us to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us. Prayer may or may not change the other person, but it always changes you. Pray this prayer with us: Heavenly Father, we thank you for your unconditional love. While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Teach us to take love seriously. Give us your heart for the people around us, especially those we find difficult...

Jesus summed up the law he came to fulfill in two sentences - Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and Love your neighbor as yourself. Prayer Prompt: Teach me to Love like you did, like you do - with ALL my heart, ALL my soul, And ALL my mind! Give me eyes to see others this week through Your eyes of love! Amen!

Kingdom reality happens when the brilliance of heaven meets the brokenness of earth. Do you live a life that releases the Kingdom or restrains it? Prayer Prompt: "There is no part of life you do not touch, O God. Help us to bring light into all the darkness of life, spreading hope for a better world, a world where justice is made real by your children living together in harmony. Help us to bring s...

Jesus' vision is for the reality of heaven to become our earthly experience.

God's faithfulness goes from generation to generation. Scripture tells us that we should pass down what the Lord has done in our lives throughout the generations. He has called us to contend for the faith of our families.

Baptism and communion are sacred experiences that represent both the individual, inward commitment to a personal relationship with Jesus and the corporate, outward sign of being connected to a local community of Christ followers—the local church.

Injustice: Unfair treatment, a situation in which the rights of a person or a group of people are ignored.