Grace Church

"The Purpose of Unity"

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] Sunday, February 1, 2026 Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

"Trust" with Dewey Williams

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] February 1, 2026 Sunday evening service by Elder Dewey Williams Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

God’s Delays in Answering Our Prayers - The Reason

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] The Reason for the Delays Unless He has something greater in mind!!! Which He certainly did for Lazarus. There is such a thing as dying in faith. Heb.11:13 says, speaking of the heroes of faith, “These all died in faith.” And we also have “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.” (Ps.115:16) But what about the unnecessary pain and suffering that people experience that is not unto death or until death comes? You think God wants that? If you do, you might need to rethink your idea of what is good and what the goodness of God is. God delays answering our prayers because He has something greater in mind. That something greater that He delayed His answer to prayer for with Lazarus, and it could be for us, was the resurrection. As great as “I Am Healer” is, “I Am the Resurrection and Life” is greater. Read Jn.11:25-26. Wow! All healed people are eventually going to die. All healthy people as well. It’s appointed for all men to die (Heb.9:27). We need to know this when someone we love dies. Everybody dies! We can’t get past the shock of their death if we don’t realize that’s just the way it is.  We need to realize He is the Resurrection even more than we realize His healership, if that’s a word. God delays His answers to our prayers because He has something better for you or your loved one and that is a greater revelation of Himself and what He’s going to do for you: He is the Resurrection and Life and “He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” The first part of what Jesus said has to do with our bodies and the second part has to do with our spirits. If we believe in Him our bodies may indeed die, but they shall live again. And if we believe in Him, our spirits will never die, because we have eternal life.  The bottom line is, God answers our prayers according to our faith, not according to anything else. Jesus told the disciples, “I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that you may believe.” (v.15) Then when He finally got there He told Mary and the rest who were listening, “Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?” (v.40) Then we have Heb.11:6 where the inspired writer is explaining faith, “Without faith it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.” The question is, are you diligently seeking Him? Are you searching the Scriptures to see if these things are so? Are you meditating on His word? Are you confident that what you have asked of Him you will receive? Because God always answers Yes … to those who pray His will (found in the Bible) with faith. Notice the present tense used in Jesus’ name. He said, “I AM.” He is not I Was or I Will Be. He’s I Am. What He always has been and always will be (Heb.18:8). Faith believes that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Jesus is always present tense.  Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

"Manifesting Jesus to Fulfill the Will of God in your Life" (with John Brown)

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] Sunday, January 18th John Brown brings the message. Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship

"The Pattern of Unity"

Send us a text [https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/1389475/open_sms] The Priority of Unity Seen in the Prayer of Jesus The PATTERN “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; that they all may be one as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.”  (John 17:20-23) Patterns are important if you hope to have the real thing come to reality. It is “a model proposed for imitation.” (Webster) My mother used to make clothes and she always bought a paper pattern and she would cut the cloth according to the pattern she had bought. Jesus gave us the model of unity in this prayer. We are to model our lives according to this divine pattern. No deviations are allowed, or the reality won’t fit the pattern, which is a divine pattern. We were created and saved to bear the image of God, to be like Him. He has given us the pattern of unity that we should follow – His own nature that we see in the Trinity. “As You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they may also be one in Us, that they may be one just as We are one.” Wow! How can we possibly follow this perfect pattern and live in unity? First John 5:7 says, “Three bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; these three are one.” Notice, it does not use the word “Jesus.” Well, the Word is Jesus (Jn.1:1-3,14), but the inspired writer uses the word Word. The other two are with and agree with the Word. What else do we call the Word? The Holy Bible, which is the Word in print. They all agree with the word in print. Now look at 1 Corinthians 1:10, “Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Paul pleads with us to be unified in what we say and the way we think. That’s amazing. How can we do that? God fully expects us to do this. How? When we have so many churches saying different things and so many Christians in each church thinking differently, how is it possible for us to have this kind of unity? The word of God. The Bible. This is the one thing we must agree on and if we do we can have unity. We all believe the same Bible. But it’s such a big Bible and some see one thing and others see another thing in the same Bible. Well, this does take some hammering out. I’ll show you how it’s done. Stay Connected with Grace Church! Dive deeper into sermon notes and see how Christ is moving in our community by visiting our website: https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons [https://sites.google.com/view/gracehouseclinton/sermons] If you feel led to support our ministry, you can give securely here: https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11 [https://give.tithe.ly/?formId=674824c2-5d42-11ee-90fc-1260ab546d11] Thank you for being part of our ministry! #GraceChurch #FaithInAction #terrysimpson #terry #simpson #clintonar #sermons #pastor #ministry #discipleship