one another – Grace Evangelical Society

June 10, 2024

Three Things to Be Doing While Waiting for Christ to Return

1 Pet 4:7-11, 2024, conference, End Times, Expectation, GES, hospitality, Jesus, last days, love, National, one another, Prayer, Return, Serve, Spiritual Gifts

Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, and for the next few days, Ken Yates will be interviewing several presenters and participants of our recently held 2024 national conference. Today’s guest is one of our favorite plenary presenters, JB Bond. His topic was the return of Jesus Christ and what we are to do while we are waiting for it! As believers, generally we don’t think about this enough. We invite you to listen in today! Listen each weekday to the Grace in Focus podcast!

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Speak Truth and Do Not Lie to One Another (Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9-10)

August 17, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, metaphysics, one another, one another commands, truth

Our culture has a truth crisis. You can see the crisis at work on many levels. For example, you can see it in journalistic bias, where unquestioned “facts” seem to change week by week. And the confusion over fact and fiction is unmistakable in the crazy posts shared on social media by friends who can’t

Why Christians Shouldn’t Be Klingons (1 Thessalonians 5:15)

June 15, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, one another, peace, retaliation, revenge, spirituality, Star Trek, violence

“What makes a man like Ringo, Doc? What makes him do the things he does?” Wyatt Earp asked. “A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it,” Doc Holliday replied. “What does

Comfort One Another with the Rapture and Resurrection (1 Thessalonians 4:18)

June 7, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, ecclesiology, one another, spirituality

Have you ever noticed that when people panic, they stop thinking clearly? I remember making a short film with some high school friends. We were shooting in a dry field at the edge of a forest. As the director set up his camera, I got bored and started a teeny tiny fire with a handful

Don’t Complain About One Another (James 5:9)

April 28, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, Discipleship, one another, spirituality

C. S. Lewis once said, “Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.” You don’t have to agree with Lewis’s eschatology to know that grumbling is ungodly. Sad to say, James had to warn his readers against it—providing us with another “one another” command: Therefore be patient, brothers and sisters, until the

Do Not Provoke or Envy One Another (Galatians 5:26)

March 15, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - church life, fruit of the Spirit, one another, Sanctification

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking

Do Not Bite One Another (Galatians 5:15)

March 8, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Church, church community, church life, ecclesiology, Galatians, one another

In a classic scene from The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Inspector Clouseau walks into a German hotel and notices a small dog by the counter. “Does your dog bite?” he asks the hotelier. “No,” the old man answers. When Clouseau goes to pet the dog, it viciously attacks him and tries to chew off his

Be at Peace with One Another (Mark 9:50)

February 16, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - ecclesiology, ekklesia, Local Church, normal Christian church life, one another, one another commands, peace, peacemaking

God meant the Christian life to be lived in community. It doesn’t always work out that way. Christians can be imprisoned, confined to a hospital bed, or live alone in a hostile country without an opportunity to meet with other believers. If that is you, I’m not here to make you feel guilty about being

The New Testament’s “One Another” Commands: An Introduction

February 12, 2021 by Shawn Lazar in Blog - Christian Life, one another, one another commands

Becoming born again is an individual issue. In other words, you need to believe in Jesus for eternal life to have that life. Your mother can’t believe it for you. Neither can your father, or grandfather, or friend. You have to come to that point of faith for yourself. However, while you can only be