By Jacob Hantla on May 1, 2016 | Elder Blog, Resources
Every month, the booktable ministry gives you a good book that can be read in month along with some simple resources to help guide you. Please consider reading each month’s book of the month with the rest of the body. Consider, that for less than 20 minutes a...
By Jacob Hantla on Mar 6, 2016 | Elder Blog, Resources
When Sinners Say I Do has proven to perhaps be the most influential book besides the Bible in my life. While the book is written particularly with marriage in mind, it is must read material for all. In very easy-to-read fashion, Dave Harvey lays out how the gospel...
By Jacob Hantla on Apr 7, 2012 | Elder Blog
In the Philipines, there are annual ceremonies on Good Friday in which people are nailed to crosses and are whipped (With caution you can watch a homemade video of the ceremony). The ceremony is not only a commemoration of the suffering that Jesus underwent, but it is...
By Jacob Hantla on Dec 24, 2011 | Elder Blog
Grace Bible Church will not be meeting on Sunday morning, December 25th. We will be gathering for Christmas Eve at a 4:00pm service instead. The service will be held in Barnes Hall at Valley Christian High School (6900 West Galveston Street, Chandler, AZ 85226). This...
By Jacob Hantla on Dec 11, 2011 | Elder Blog
151 years ago, almost to the day, Charles Spurgeon (web | Logos) gave the following very helpful advice: Live while you live; while it is called today, work, for the night cometh wherein no man can work. And let us learn never to do anything which we would not wish to...
By Jacob Hantla on Apr 17, 2011 | Elder Blog
In our series on Genesis, the goal is to understand the clear and straightforward teaching of Genesis. Smedly, with the help of Mike Jones, created a helpful Creation Chart to understand what God did on the six days of creation. You can download it here. Your elders...
By Jacob Hantla on Sep 19, 2010 | Elder Blog
Yesterday we announced upcoming church membership classes. Today we give a little more information regarding why we believe formal church membership is important at Grace Bible Church. We believe that the New Testament assumes that those who repented and put their...
By Jacob Hantla on Sep 18, 2010 | Elder Blog
Over the next few Sundays, you will hear announcement regarding church membership classes upcoming. On December 5, we will have a special membership and baptism service. With so many new attenders coming to the church lately, formal church membership is an excellent...
By Jacob Hantla on Aug 12, 2010 | Elder Blog
Dear body, Would you please consider attending an after church meeting this Sunday, August 15 to hear from the elders about the needs that a member of our body has. We have a member who has many needs at a variety of levels, which leads the elders to employ the body...
By Jacob Hantla on Jul 27, 2010 | Elder Blog
While on Mt. Sinai, interceding on behalf of the people after the golden-calf incident, Moses asks God to show him His glory (Exodus 33:18). God’s answered that request, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before my name, The...
By Jacob Hantla on Jul 17, 2010 | Elder Blog
God reveals Himself most clearly and powerfully to us in His Word. It is important for us to be familiar with all of God’s Word if we are to know and love all about the God of that Word. It is for this reason that one of the requirements for BUILD is that you...
By Jacob Hantla on Jul 11, 2010 | Elder Blog
You are now on Grace Bible Church’s new website. We had to launch it a little bit sooner than we wanted, so please bear with us as we add functionality and fix up the “look”. Nevertheless, it is our hope and prayer that we are better able to serve...
