Welcome to Grace at Home. Below are worship resources to sustain and strengthen our faith. Click on the pictures below to access the video content. Scriptures and prayers are located below the links. Due to COVID-19 positivity rates, Grace Community Christian Church will continue to share in worship online.
The building is open for in person worship this morning. As guidelines change and vaccine is made available, we look forward to gathering safely again in person with COVID mitigation measures in place.
Additional opportunities for connection and reflection
We will gather to study Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words by Brian D. McLaren
on ZOOM on Sunday, March 28, after church at 11:15am in person (for persons that are comfortable with being present, masked, and appropriately distanced) and online. Click here to join us.
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Join us for worship on Good Friday (4/2) at 7pm and on Easter (4/4) at 10am. |
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"Palm Sunday Upside Down"
Inspiring video
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"All Hail the Power of Jesus Name"
(Opening song - sing along)
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"The Story of Easter: Triumphal Entry"
Children's moment
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"Hold On"
(Beginning of Holy Week
song of reflection)
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"Disciples of Christ"
(Video about identity and community)
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"Let This Mind Be In You"
Rev. Yvonne Gilmore
(sermon)
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You may give gifts, tithes, and offerings online below or mail in a check to Grace Community Christian Church. Thank you in advance.
(Click the image on the left to watch the video)
This Easter, consider making a gift over and above your regular offering to support several of the general ministries of the Christian Church including college students in leadership development programs, global mission partners, health and social service ministries, the formation of new congregations, support for pastors and chaplains, and so much more.
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If Jesus were coming to OUR town today, what would you bring? Would you offer your coat? Throw flower petals before him? Blow up balloons to dance in the wind as he passed?
Today, we’re moving toward the end of our Lenten journey. You’re invited to bring your tithes, gifts and offerings to help set the stage for our congregation’s Palm Sunday PARTY
Offering prayer
As we offer these tangible gifts, Holy One, remind us of those who could use the clothes hanging in our closets unworn, those who could be fed by the food stored in our pantries, those who could be healed by the grace and hope we keep locked away in our hearts. May we be as generous with others as you are with us, we pray. Amen.
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Click here to give online give using Paypal or your credit card
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Opening Prayer
Holy God, your love goes beyond all limits. In love, you have given us your beloved, Jesus, whom we claim as the Christ, to lead us ever closer to your shalom…your peace that passes understanding. As we worship you this day, give us the desire and the will to follow Jesus, that we may be led into that peace that holds in time of trouble,
and into a love that persists far beyond today’s parade. In the name of Christ Jesus our Savior, amen!
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Prayer of Faith
Holy Sustainer, you were ever in and with Jesus on his journey to Jerusalem,
guiding his choices and strengthening his courage each step of the way. As your beloved children, be with us and strengthen us on our journeys. Guide our time of worship, our relationships, and our companionship with one another, teach us to recognize Christ
in everyone we meet. Help us offer holy hospitality wherever it is needed,
and free us from our fears of scarcity,
that we may share from our abundance
and be a blessing for others.
You call us to have faith in your sustaining presence and power, but your call takes us beyond anything we can see or touch. At times, we fear placing our trust in things beyond our control.
We doubt that you can bring water
to the dry places of our lives
or replace our suffering with joy.
Forgive us when we turn away
from your promise of abundant life.
Heal us and lead us home, Holy One. Amen.
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12 The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. 13 They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting, “Hosanna![a]”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”[b] “Blessed is the king of Israel!” 14 Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
15 “Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
see, your king is coming,
seated on a donkey’s colt.”[c]
16 At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
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Lent 2021
Click here to read Go To Jerusalem, our Lenten devotional for 2021.
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Making the Lenten Journey:
Praying in Color
(for adults, families, and communities)
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Ways to Use the Lenten calendars:
1) Pray for a person each day of Lent.
2) Use a daily book of Lenten meditations. Read the meditation for the day and select a word that jumps out at you. Meditate on the word as you draw and color around it. Let it enter your heart and mind. Ask God what you need to hear from the word.
3) Follow a daily lectionary and choose a word from one of the Scripture readings.
4) Read the same Psalm each day and choose a daily word. Psalm 51, for example, is a penitential Psalm with lots of juicy (sometimes depressing) words in it.
5) Read a different Psalm each day and choose a word.
Learn more and download here
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Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990
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