Welcome to Grace at Home.
Thank you for joining us. We invite you to unplug in this moment from daily life: from display screens and sales, from overload, work, and isolation. Reconnect to visions and dreams: experience the grace of God moving within you, and among this community of faith.
Click on the pictures below to access the inspiring educational videos. Scriptures, prayers, and announcements are located beneath the links. Click here to watch the livestreamed service.
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"The Hidden Path to Love"
(Inspiring video)
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"Let It Rise"
(Opening song)
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God's Story: Jesus Loves Everyone
(Children's Moment)
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"The Lord Will Guide You Always
Isaiah 58:11"
(Song of reflection)
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Imagine more...more love...more grace
Learn more about our community of faith
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"Faith Seeking a Trumpet"
10am central live at Grace
Sermon by Rev. Yvonne Gilmore
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Gifts of generosity and grace
You may give gifts, tithes, and offerings online below or mail in a check to Grace Community Christian Church.
Thank you for making space for Grace and Joy to be shared within and beyond our walls this season. Your faithful tithes and offerings make a life changing difference.
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We are a part of something BIGGER...than time, than ourselves, than darkness. We are a part of God's movement for wholeness as faithful stewards of God's limitless love.
In a world in which we can so easily turn on a light, it may be challenging to remember Jesus was speaking to his disciples out on the mountain side, with no electric lights, no lighted pathways, no flashlights. When the sun went down, everyone knew it would be DARK!
So describing the disciples “light of the world” would have had a deep significance. What about for you? If you can, imagine how YOU are “the light of the world.” How do you let your light shine?
What good works can be seen when you’re around? What happens because of you that allows others to give glory to God?
Each week, we provide an opportunity for each one of us to shine some light as we share our financial offerings. With our gifts, this congregation is better equipped to help people claim their identity as followers of Jesus, provide food for the mini food pantry, bank, support three troops of Boy Scouts, and emerging youth and young adults.
Imagine how bright the light shines when we all provide resources! Let your light so shine so we are not hidden or under a bushel basket, but so others from all around can see and rejoice in the Light!
Offering prayer
Illuminating God, thank you for the ways you encourage us to let our light shine. Please accept these gifts, multiply them, and make possible the vision for us to use them wisely, that we might let your good works be seen and celebrated, day by day. Amen
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Click here to give online using Paypal or your credit card
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Opening Prayer
God of Community, we rejoice in this time to worship you in this holy place, and through the wonder of technology which gathers us from many places. Help us reach out to see and share your LIGHT as we share bread and clothes, and welcome others to safe spaces.
Inspire us always to open our hands, our hearts, our minds, that we might truly be followers of Jesus, the Christ, who shows us
“the Way.” Amen.
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Prayers of the People
God of heaven, you have made your home
with us among your people. You do not define your children by their poverty, but by your presence with them. You proclaim that we are precious and we belong to you. Guide our longing and belonging as we walk by faith today.
God of wisdom and righteousness, your standards and expectations of us have not changed. Fill us with the desire to know your truth and to follow your commandments. Keep ever before us the needs of the world into which you sent Jesus and for whose sake he gave himself to the uttermost. Direct us to seek its good as our own, and work for its transformation in the name and spirit of him who came into the world not to condemn but to redeem it.
Jesus, our teacher and redeemer, bless us as we pray and live the prayer you taught us to pray: "Our Father..." (The Lord's Prayer)
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Shout out; do not hold back! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Announce to my people their rebellion, to the house of Jacob their sins.
2 Yet day after day they seek me and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they want God on their side. 3 “Why do we fast, but you do not see?
Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.
4 You fast only to quarrel and to fight and to strike with a wicked fist. Such fasting as you do today will not make your voice heard on high. 5 Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord? 6 Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
and not to hide yourself from your own kin?
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up quickly; your vindicator shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.
9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will
answer; you shall cry for help, and he will say, “Here I am.” If you remove the yoke from among you, the pointing of the finger, the speaking of evil, 10 if you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday.
11 The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places and make your bones strong, and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters never fail. 12 Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; you shall be called the repairer of the breach, the restorer of streets to live in.
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February 22
7pm
The season of Lent, the 40 days before Easter, starts on Ash Wednesday, February 22. Join us as we begin the season of Lent with prayer, reflection, and anointing with ashes, oil or a blessing.
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Grace Community Christian Church
2770 Montgomery Road
Aurora, IL 60504
www.graceccc.org
630.898.7990
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