The Great Commission
For our Global Missions Sunday we will center our study on The Great Commission with a special guest panel of our Grace Missionaries who serve around the world.
Grace Mills River
enOctober 22, 2023
On this page
Grace Mills River
Weekly sermons from Grace Mills River Church in Mills River, NC which is near Asheville, NC. Grace Mills River is a mission extending the Gospel of Jesus Christ to western North Carolina including Asheville, Hendersonville, Brevard and Tryon Foothills by using culturally relevant communications and the arts. Bringing Good News to the Mountains!
enGrace Mills River331 Episodes
Episodes (331)
The Fruit of the Spirit is Gentleness
These days the words most reported are those which are the loudest or the most boldly confrontational. Doubtless fierce and impassioned words are fitting at times. But what if any place does gentleness have in our discourse and relationships?...
The Fruit of the Spirit is Faithfulness
If we reflect even a little, whatever strength, skill, fortitude, or goodness we might possess is owed to the faithful care and concern of others. If we consider longstanding ideas, or enduring works of art and architecture, there is no accounting for...
The Fruit of the Spirit is Goodness
You typically hear when someone has died, “she was a good person.” Without having them elaborate further, we know intuitively what they mean: someone without pretense, or eminently trustworthy, or deeply kind. When addressed as a “good teacher” Jesus...
The Shape of Grace
arly in the existence of what Jesus first called the church, Luke writes that “great grace was upon them.” They were marked by grace–both in what had come to them but in what was now being manifest in and through them. Grace shaped them. And what...
Unless You Become Like a Little Child…
What Jesus locates in close proximity to each other Paul nearly fuses together in a single closing of a letter–namely, the Spirit’s fruit of joy and peace. They are two sides of the same coin, or in keeping with Paul’s metaphor, adjacent slices of the...
Grace Mills River
enSeptember 03, 2023
The Fruit of the Spirit is Love
We take for granted how crucial love is to goodness, how unnecessary or far from inevitable it was that humanity should by and large embrace it as a virtue. That may be in part why Paul names love as the first in that list of interdependent qualities...
Grace Mills River
enAugust 27, 2023
Live Free and Die
Benjamin Franklin believed the key to a new and lasting society was more than good governance, free of monarchical rule, but moreover the cultivation of true virtue in its populace. The Apostle Paul sketches the contours of virtue in terms of what we...
Grace Mills River
enAugust 20, 2023
Fight to Follow from a Filial Affection
During–let’s call it what it was–her trespass into the domicile of a family of bears, Goldilocks found one bed too hard, another too soft, and a third just right. In the law of God there’s a way of going too hard on sin. In the grace of God there’s a...
Filled with Beauty
In this passage we see the first mention in Scripture of someone being filled with the Spirit. Filled with “ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship, to devise artistic design.” This same eternal creative Spirit is now poured...
Grace Mills River
enAugust 06, 2023
More Than Your Moral Life in Mind
It’s a superficial understanding of the Holy Spirit to think He is mostly concerned with our moral lives–whether we are doing what is right (as though that weren’t important). But as we’ll hear Paul continue to elaborate on what life in the Spirit is...
Grace Mills River
enJuly 23, 2023
He Gets Us
One mark of a sound framework for thinking about reality or ourselves is having what’s called “explanatory power”--that is, it accounts for much of what it claims by what we observe and what else we know. At least one reason we believe the words of...
Romans 7:15-25
Readings & Scripture
PREPARATION: 2 Corinthians 47-12;16LEADER: 7 But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not...
Grace Mills River
enJuly 09, 2023
The Going is not an Ending
If you are fortunate, one day you might have the chance to say final and loving things to those nearest to you before you die. What would you say? What would be what you most wanted them to know following your passing? In this passage Jesus has that...
Ideas Made flesh
What is art but an attempt to bring our attention to beauty our blindness and pace often obscure? We need something to slow us and to help us see. The Holy Spirit we are learning has served many roles in the ministry of the Triune God. In some of...
Grace Mills River
enJune 25, 2023
The Spirit Comes a Comping, part 1
What is central to the life in Jesus is what some say make that life “impossible.” Not an exercise in futility, but a purpose not to be pursued without necessary help. We’ve been learning of the Spirit from His ministry to and through Jesus. Now we...
Grace Mills River
enJune 18, 2023
Seeing the Wind
You may have heard the saying, “I can’t see the wind, but I can surely see the effects of the wind.” Jesus said as much about the Holy Spirit. His existence is known more fully by His effects. Recently we asked what it was for the Spirit to regenerate...
Grace Mills River
enJune 11, 2023
One Difference the Spirit Makes
Few modern people would disagree that Jesus was a teacher of wisdom. But in that sense most would place him in the same category as others who stand as pioneers of various faith traditions: teacher. Such a category implies spirituality in any...
Pentecost
Pentecost was the genesis of the church. While it functions as an amazing historical event, what, if anything, does it have to do with the modern church? This unique historical event reveals much about the nature of the Holy Spirit and his work to...
Leave Us Not to Our Temptation
Everyone alive is tempted by something. The reasons for resisting temptation are many. What is particular about how a Christian faces temptation? We’ll look at the Spirit’s participation in the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry–at his baptism and...