Gospel Life Church

Trust Your Sovereign God

Gospel Life Church
April 26, 2020
The Acts of God
Acts 4:23-31

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Your Name is Matchless
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Look What God Has Done
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Build My Life
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All Glory Be Forever
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Socially Distanced Devotion #5

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Ephesians 1:6, 12, 14

The Paradox of Jesus: The Lion and The Lamb

Gospel Life Church
April 19, 2020
The Paradox of Jesus: The Lion and The Lamb
Revelation 5:1-14

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Your Name Alone Can Save
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The Lion and the Lamb
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He Will Hold Me Fast
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Jesus is Better
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Home Groups are back!!!

This week we are starting back up our home groups by using Zoom! We will begin a new study series “A Survey of The Psalms: Rejoicing in Your Great God” and you don’t want to miss it!

The three Home groups meet separately in the evenings on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. For more information, send a Facebook message or send an email to [email protected]

#homegroups #Psalms #quarantine #relational #Community #Biblestudy

Socially Distanced Devotional #4

Gospel Life Church
Socially Distanced Devotional #4
Ephesians 1:5

Holy Week Devotion - Resurrection Sunday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotion
Resurrection Sunday
Luke 24:1-53
Christ the Lord is Risen Today!

Join us at 5 for our last Holy Week Devotion. He is Risen!

The Paradox of Jesus: Sinless and Made To Be Sin

Gospel Life Church
Resurrection Sunday
April 12, 2020
2 Corinthians 5:21

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Glorious Day
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How Deep the Father’s Love
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Come Behold The Wondrous Mystery
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In Christ Alone
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Holy Week Devotion - Saturday

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Holy Week Devotion
Saturday
Matthew 27:62-66
Alas And Did My Savior Bleed

Holy Week Devotion - Good Friday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotion
Good Friday
Luke 23:1-56
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

Holy Week Devotion - Thursday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotion
Thursday
Luke 22:7-71
The Old Rugged Cross

Gospel Kids: Join us for on Saturday, April 11 at 11AM for a Resurrection Celebration via Zoom! We will read an Easter story, sing songs, and share together with our church friends, all from the comfort and safety of our own homes.

If your kids wish to participate, and you did not receive the email invitation, please message us on Facebook or email [email protected] for a link and password.

Holy Week Devotion - Wednesday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotion
Wednesday
Luke 21:4-22:6
What Can Wash Away My Sin?

Make plans to join us online this Sunday at 10AM to celebrate the Resurrection!

Holy Week Devotional - Tuesday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotion
Tuesday
Luke 20:27-21:4
How Firm A Foundation

Holy Week Devotional - Monday

Gospel Life Church
Holy Week Devotional
Monday
Luke 19:47-20:26
And Can It Be

Holy Week Devotional: Palm Sunday

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Holy Week Reading
Palm Sunday
Luke 19:28-46
O Worship The King

The Paradox of Jesus: Fully Man & Fully God

Gospel Life Church
April 5, 2020
The Paradox of Jesus: Fully God and Fully Man
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In Tenderness
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The Solid Rock
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In My Place
Matt Damico © 2019 All Rights Reserved Used with Permission

Socially Distanced Devotional #3

Gospel Life Church Mid Week Devotion
Ephesians 1:4b

[03/31/20]   The Joy of Abiding in Christ (Reflections on John 15)
by Joseph Yu

“Abide” is definitely “churchy” word. You don’t hear from a person at the park telling you “Keep abiding as you run your laps,” or the cashier at Publix say, “Thanks for shopping, hope you abide well today.” Other than phrases like “abide by the law” or “abide by the rules,” we only hear this word used in church settings. So what does it mean to “abide”?

Defining “Abide”
In John 15, Jesus starts off by saying how he is the source of life to us, like a life-giving vine is to branches that bear fruit. Jesus states in verses 4-5, “Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.”

Other translations use the phrase “remain in,” but what is clear is that for the Christian to “abide in Christ” mean he is to be rooted, linked, conformed, and totally dependent on Jesus. He alone is the one who gives life to the Christian which then enables the bearing of fruit. Therefore, in order for us to even be able to abide in Christ, he abides in us. He does not need us, but we need him. Without him, we can’t follow him and live out this new life. So, both the Christian and Christ abides in each other; one depending on the other while the other giving the power to live.

How do we abide in Christ?
But what does it actually look like for a Christian to abide in him? In verses 7-11, Jesus gives us three key points.

First, his words abide in us and change us. Verse 7 states that Jesus’ words are to be in the Christian. In fact, Christ and His revelation are interchangeable because it is by his word that we are able to abide in him. D. A. Carson puts it this way by saying that “Such words must so lodge in the disciple’s mind and heart that conformity to Christ, obedience to Christ, is the most natural (supernatural?) thing in the world.” (The Gospel According to John, Pillar Commentary, pg 517) To abide in Christ means you must know his word, the Bible.

Second, we abide in his love by keeping his commandments. In verses 10-11, Jesus points out the Father’s love for him and his love for and perfect obedience to the Father. The eternal love of the persons of the Trinity should blow our minds away, but then Jesus says these beautiful words, “so have I loved you.” We have been loved by Jesus with an infinite, eternal, unchanging love, and the command his then gives is “Abide in my love.” Why wouldn’t you want to abide in that love? The way we abide in the love of Christ is by obeying His commandments. Knowing the kind of love he gives produces in us the desire to obey Him!

Third, we are motivated to share in his joy. This pursuit of obeying Jesus and resting in his love is not a drudgery. Because of the Father’s love to him and his love to us, when we obey him, Jesus insists we share in his joy. Because he has given us his love, we get the opportunity to experience the joy that he has with the Father! Sharing in his joy enables the bearing of fruit. Our desires and joys are conformed to his desires and joys leading to our lives conformed to him.

A Union You and Covid-19 can’t Sever
After reading this, you may find “abiding in Christ” still daunting and maybe impossible, but Jesus isn’t done. At the end in verses 12-17, we read Jesus telling us to love one another just as He loved us, and that “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (v. 13). He calls Christian his friends because he has made known to us all that the Father has revealed (v. 15). Then in verse 16 he states, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”

The reason you have new life and can abide in Christ is because He chose you and brought you to himself. We love Him because He first loved us (1 John 4:19), and in Romans 8, Paul writes the following:

"28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. 29For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. 31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?"

Later in verses 38-39:

"38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

God’s love for us saves us, secures us, and enables us to live a life of abiding in Christ. What a joyful privilege to abide in Christ!

The Lord is Your Refuge

Gospel Life Church March 29, 2020
Psalm 91
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He Is Our God
Bob Kauflin | Jon Althoff
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In My Place
Matt Damico
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Jesus Your Mercy
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Parenting tips for Bible Study at Home

Here are some helpful tips for how to engage your children during Bible Study at home.

Socially Distanced Devotionals #2

Be encouraged as we continue to look at Ephesians 1.

Our Eternal God and Our Frailty

Gospel Life Church March 22, 2020

[03/22/20]   Gospel Life Church March 22, 2020

Socially Distanced Devotionals #1

Ephesians 1:3

COVID-19 Day of Prayer

Gospel Life Church March 15, 2020
Prayer Guide

1. Ask God, in His mercy, to stop this pandemic and save lives -- not only in our communities but around the world, particularly in places that are unequipped medically to deal with the virus. (Isaiah 59:1-2)

2. Pray for our President, congressional leaders, state governor, city mayor, and other government officials to have the wisdom to direct us in the best courses of action for prevention and care. (Romans 13:1–4)

3. Scripture says: Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts. Pray that the Lord will give us wisdom in this moment of fear as the foundations of what we know are shaken, that others would realize how fragile life is and how real eternity is, and they would see their need to turn to God. (Psalm 90:12)

4. Ask God to protect our missionaries and their families around the globe, using this global crisis to advance His Good News to the whole world. (Philippians 1:18)

[03/15/20]   Gospel Life Church March 15, 2020
Prayer Guide

1. Ask God, in His mercy, to stop this pandemic and save lives -- not only in our communities but around the world, particularly in places that are unequipped medically to deal with the virus. (Isaiah 59:1-2)

2. Pray for our President, congressional leaders, state governor, city mayor, and other government officials to have the wisdom to direct us in the best courses of action for prevention and care. (Romans 13:1–4)

3. Scripture says: Teach us to number our days carefully so that we may develop wisdom in our hearts. Pray that the Lord will give us wisdom in this moment of fear as the foundations of what we know are shaken, that others would realize how fragile life is and how real eternity is, and they would see their need to turn to God. (Psalm 90:12)

4. Ask God to protect our missionaries and their families around the globe, using this global crisis to advance His Good News to the whole world. (Philippians 1:18)

[03/14/20]   Hello Gospel Life,

I am sure most of you have been keeping up with the news and the continued updates regarding the spread of COVID-19. While our hope and plan was to continue to meet this Sunday for a time of focused prayer and worship, at this time we are having to CANCEL our gathering for tomorrow, Sunday, March 15.

I will send out a more detailed message later today for what things will look like for the coming week.

Praying for you all through this time and trusting God for His continued grace.

-Pastor Mark

[03/13/20]   Hello Gospel Life,

As the days progress, the news by the hour is giving updates on the status of COVID-19. There are many with facts and figures to share but my goal is to help us think clearly as Christians in these days.

Here are three exhortations to help and encourage you at this time:

Make your decisions based on wisdom and faith, nor fear. God is still on His throne. He is working all things for the good of His people. Do not panic. Do not let your mind be overrun by the predictions of gloom and doom. Trust Him no matter the circumstances you face in this life.

Wisdom implores us to be vigilant in these days. Last week I sent out a message about adjustments we have made to help curb the spread of any disease during our gathering as a church. If you missed that message it should be in your inbox or you can find it on our church page. You can also click here for the Center for Disease Control’s website with current updates and recommendations. If you are feeling ill, please let us know so we can be praying for you and forego gathering with us until you are well. God has given us wisdom for your good and your joy.

Don’t miss the opportunity to share hope. While your friends and neighbors are consumed with concern over COVID-19, it opens the door to talk about the hope that surpasses the grave. The spread of this Pandemic points to the fragility of this life. The hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is our peace and confidence in the midst of an anxious world. We don’t want to share sickness, but we certainly must share hope!

In light of all this, we are continuing to meet for all our regularly scheduled gatherings. The CDC's caution on mass gatherings is defined as groups greater than 250 people, so at this point we are not impacted by this recommendation.

Pray with us, that Gospel Life would shine brightly through the cloud of fear and anxiety surrounding us.

Trusting God’s Grace and Peace,

Pastor Mark