Grace Baptist Church Chattanooga TN

Sanctiy of Life Sunday, Michael Jennings 1/20/13AM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN 01/20/2013 AM Service Message: Michael S Jennings Sanctity of Human Life Sunday Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869 Pod safe music provided by http://www.danosongs.com/ For more information, check out our new website: www.aboutgracebaptist.org/ Copyright © 2012, Grace Baptist Church, All rights reserved. CCLI License # 181746

Will of God 01/13/2013PM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN 01/13/2013 PM Service Message: Pastor Euler, James 1 Special Music: Ladies Trio Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869 Pod safe music provided by http://www.danosongs.com/ For more information, check out our new website: www.aboutgracebaptist.org/ Copyright © 2012, Grace Baptist Church, All rights reserved. CCLI License # 181746

Genesis 25 01/13/2013 AM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN 01/13/2013 AM Service Message: Pastor Euler, Gen 25:27-34 Special Music: Fred, Luke and Tina Holcombe Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869 Pod safe music provided by http://www.danosongs.com/ For more information, check out our new website: www.aboutgracebaptist.org/ Copyright © 2012, Grace Baptist Church, All rights reserved. CCLI License # 181746

James 1 01/06/2013 PM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN 01/06/2013 PM Service Message: Pastor Euler, James 1 God Sightings Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869 Pod safe music provided by http://www.danosongs.com/ For more information, check out our new website: www.aboutgracebaptist.org/ Copyright © 2012, Grace Baptist Church, All rights reserved. CCLI License # 181746

Genesis 25 01/06/13AM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN
01/06/2013 AM Service
Message: Pastor Euler, Genesis 25:19-26

Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869
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Dr. Jimmy DeYoung 12/31/12PM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN 12/31/2012 PM Service Message: Dr. Jimmy DeYoung Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869 Pod safe music provided by http://www.danosongs.com/ For more information, check out our new website: www.aboutgracebaptist.org/ Copyright © 2012, Grace Baptist Church, All rights reserved. CCLI License # 181746

Dr. Jimmy DeYoung 12/30/12AM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN
12/30/2012 AM Service
Message: Dr. Jimmy DeYoung
Special Music: Fred & Tina Holcolmbe
Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869
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The Dark Side of Christmas 12/23/12AM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN
12/23/2012 AM Service
Message: Pastor Euler, Rev 12:1-6
Special Music: Alyssa Swann
Offering: Roman Creed
Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869
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The Man and the Birds

The Man and the Birds

 By Paul Harvey

The man to whom I'm going to introduce you was not a scrooge, he was a kind decent, mostly good man. Generous to his family, upright in his dealings with other men. But he just didn't believe all that incarnation stuff which the churches proclaim at Christmas Time. It just didn't make sense and he was too honest to pretend otherwise. He just couldn't swallow the Jesus Story, about God coming to Earth as a man.

 

"I'm truly sorry to distress you," he told his wife, "but I'm not going with you to church this Christmas Eve." He said he'd feel like a hypocrite. That he'd much rather just stay at home, but that he would wait up for them. And so he stayed and they went to the midnight service.

 

Shortly after the family drove away in the car, snow began to fall. He went to the window to watch the flurries getting heavier and heavier and then went back to his fireside chair and began to read his newspaper. Minutes later he was startled by a thudding sound...Then another, and then another. Sort of a thump or a thud...At first he thought someone must be throwing snowballs against his living room window.

 

But when he went to the front door to investigate he found a flock of birds huddled miserably in the snow. They'd been caught in the storm and, in a desperate search for shelter, had tried to fly through his large landscape window. Well, he couldn't let the poor creatures lie there and freeze, so he remembered the barn where his children stabled their pony. That would provide a warm shelter, if he could direct the birds to it.

 

Quickly he put on a coat, galoshes, tramped through the deepening snow to the barn. He opened the doors wide and turned on a light, but the birds did not come in. He figured food would entice them in. So he hurried back to the house, fetched bread crumbs, sprinkled them on the snow, making a trail to the yellow-lighted wide open doorway of the stable. But to his dismay, the birds ignored the bread crumbs, and continued to flap around helplessly in the snow.

 

He tried catching them...He tried shooing them into the barn by walking around them waving his arms...Instead, they scattered in every direction, except into the warm, lighted barn. And then, he realized that they were afraid of him. To them, he reasoned, I am a strange and terrifying creature.

 

If only I could think of some way to let them know that they can trust me...That I am not trying to hurt them, but to help them. But how? Because any move he made tended to frighten them, confuse them. They just would not follow. They would not be led or shooed because they feared him.

 

"If only I could be a bird," he thought to himself, "and mingle with them and speak their language. Then I could tell them not to be afraid. Then I could show them the way to safe, warm...to the safe warm barn. But I would have to be one of them so they could see, and hear and understand."

 

At that moment the church bells began to ring. The sound reached his ears above the sounds of the wind. And he stood there listening to the bells - Adeste Fidelis - listening to the bells pealing the glad tidings of Christmas. And he sank to his knees in the snow.

All Is Well - Christmas Cantata 12/16/12PM

Grace Baptist Church in Chattanooga, TN
12/16/2012 PM Service
Christmas Cantana - All Is Well
Grace Baptist Church 7815 Shallowford Road Chattanooga, TN 37421 (423) 892-4869
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