Biblical counseling conference

This weekend we are hosting the final weekend of our Biblical Counseling and Discipleship Conference. We are delighted to have as a guest speaker, Heath Lambert, the executive director of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC, formerly known as NANC). He will be speaking at the conference on both Friday and Saturday and then […]

Sermon: We Give Thanks to God

We Give Thanks to God Colossians 1:3-8 October 13, 2013 Picture Charlie Brown sitting at a desk and writing. In the second panel he utters the single word, “Rats,” and crumples up the paper. It joins a large pile of crumpled up pieces of paper in the third panel. And in the final panel he […]

Sunday Leftovers — GBC Vision Statement

Several years ago, GBC formulated a concise statement to attempt to articulate its vision and direction in ministry. That statement provided the criteria for adding new ministries and evaluating existing ones. All that we did needed to conform to this vision statement: Grace Bible Church exists to shepherd God’s people by God’s grace for God’s […]

Regeneration camp

The Regeneration camp for high school-aged students will be held at Glorietta, NM on the week of July 25-29. A preview of and purpose for the week:

Parenting Seminar audio

The audio for the parenting seminar with Jim Newheiser this weekend has now been posted at Grace Bible Institute. You can access all the audio at the download page: Parenting is More than a Formula When Good Kids Make Bad Choices You Never Stop Being a Parent, Pt. 1 You Never Stop Being a Parent, […]

Parenting Seminar with Jim Newheiser

On the weekend of February 4-5, Grace Bible Church in Granbury (TX) will be hosting a parenting seminar with Jim Newheiser, pastor of Grace Bible Church in Escondido, CA and director of the The Institute for Biblical Counseling and Discipleship. He has also recently co-authored the book You Never Stop Being a Parent with Elyse […]

Well-said at the conference

A few things that I thought were particularly well-said at the biblical counselor training conference last weekend (due to limitations in my transcription skills, these may not be exact quotations): Biblical counseling discerns thinking and behavior that God wants to change. [Lance Quinn] There is a two-fold purpose in and for our lives: becoming more […]

Conference update

Last weekend we completed our first of three weekends of training in the Biblical Counselor Training Conference. All the audio for the conference (all ten sessions) is now available online. Lance Quinn also spoke twice on Sunday morning, addressing the topic, “When Affliction Comes” (Ps. 119) during Sunday School, and then providing a 15-point overview […]

Biblical counseling conference this weekend

This weekend we host the biblical counseling training conference. As part of that conference, Lance Quinn, who is a Fellow with NANC, as well as a member of the board of NANC will be teaching. Additionally, Lance has graciously agreed to teach Sunday School and preach for us next Sunday morning. This is a real […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: God’s Glory

This is the eleventh and final of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. I hope you knew I would have to conclude my reflections with the truth of God’s glory. I don’t think I came to GBC with the priority of God’s glory as preeminently clear in my […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: the Adequate Word

This is the tenth of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. To say that the Scriptures are adequate is something like saying that a bazooka is adequate to kill a mosquito or that a Lamborghini is adequate to defeat a bicycle in a ten-mile race. When we say […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: Godly Suffering and Godly Examples

This is the ninth of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. Twenty years ago, I did not have this category for gratitude in my life. I couldn’t conceive it. I hadn’t lived life long enough to experience any significant pain and sorrow. Nor had I been exposed to […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: Repentance

This is the eighth of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. If there is nothing that makes a pastor’s heart more glad than people growing in Christ, then there is nothing that makes him more sad than people rejecting Christ. In a cabinet drawer in my office, I […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: Remembering Christ

This is the seventh of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. For many years I have been collecting books about the cross of Christ. I am captivated by the cross and find my heart to a love of Christ by these deep reflections on what was accomplished at […]

Reflections on Twenty Years of Ministry: Faithful Co-Laborers

This is the sixth of a series of reflections of gratitude on 20 years of ministry at GBC. We are part of a lineage that reaches back to Christ and reaches ahead into eternity. But we also are part of each other’s stories. We share life together. So in our church body there are two […]