Springfield Grace Church of The Nazarene

Grace Naz Family- You excel at loving your pastors! Thank you for your thoughtfulness and creativity today, showing us love and making our farewell so special (and that much more difficult! ). Chad and I entered the building this morning as your "pastors". . . We left today as your FRIENDS. We love you and thank the Lord for the honor of serving with you. Upward and onward!!

Springfield Friends! Join us THIS Saturday at 9AM for the live simulcast of The Return: National Day of Repentance and Prayer (Live event taking place in Washington DC). Even if you only have an hour to spare, it's more than worth it to join millions of voices around the USA (and the globe) as we cry out to God!... Grace Church of the Nazarene 540 E Walnut Lawn Springfield, MO 65807

Mark your calendars for "Creative Connection" Craft Fair at Grace Naz on October 31st! FREE! S'mores! Craft Fair! Fun!

National Day of Repentance and Prayer is a week from today! Sept 26th!

Grace Naz and Springfield Friends! Bring your appetite, because "Big Breakfast" is THIS Sunday, Sept 20th at 10AM! Rumor has it that biscuits and gravy is on the menu. Bring a friend as we enjoy some good eats in the gym and then make our way into the sanctuary to celebrate our good God! See you there!

God wants to respond in mercy! I can think of nothing more critical for us collectively as a nation and world, than to return in humility to the God who made us, begging him for the healing of the sin-sick soul of our country. This could be the tipping point...

"Big Breakfast" returns to Grace Naz NEXT Sunday, September 20th at 10AM! The Holbrooks and Schmidts are hard at work planning a delicious menu and creating a safe atmosphere for us to enjoy a "physically distanced" breakfast together! With full bellies and even fuller hearts, we will then shift to the sanctuary for a meaningful, yet slightly abbreviated time of worship.... As always, you are invited to join us for pre-service prayer at 9:30AM, as we set the tone for the day and fix our eyes on Jesus. See you then!

Grace Naz Ladies! Our friends at Branson Nazarene are hosting "Restore, Renew, Refresh" Women's Retreat and YOU are invited! (They were crazy enough to ask me to speak! Ha!) Saturday, September 12, 10AM-2PM $10 for box lunch Registration Deadline- September 4th... Wanna join me for some life-giving fellowship with other women? Shoot me a message and I'll connect you!

Grace Naz Family! Alison here. Humanity has been in a power struggle with God since the Fall of man in Eden. As a result....well, you see the results all around you.... The account of Job, in the Bible, provides us front row seats to one such power struggle between Job, his well-meaning but misinformed friends, and of course...God Almighty. I have attached an excerpt from this heated debate below from Job 38. In this passage you will hear words of challenge and clarity coming from The Lord. Words that, for the unrepentant, would make your hair stand on end. God puts Job in his place and restores a proper perspective of who's really got the power...For some, this can be frightening. For me, these are words of life! I dare say some of us, especially those of us who are American and find ourselves in the throes of elections and government rhetoric, would greatly benefit from STOPPING...turning off the TV and ceasing the consumption of media in all its forms for a bit, to recalibrate and regain a high and holy view of God, who is in fact...in control. Be blessed by the reading of God's word today! Job 38 "Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. Who determined its dimensions and stretched out the surveying line? What supports its foundations, and who laid its cornerstone as the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who kept the sea inside its boundaries as it burst from the womb, and as I clothed it with clouds and wrapped it in thick darkness? For I locked it behind barred gates, limiting its shores. I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’ Have you ever commanded the morning to appear and caused the dawn to rise in the east? Have you made daylight spread to the ends of the earth, to bring an end to the night’s wickedness? As the light approaches, the earth takes shape like clay pressed beneath a seal; it is robed in brilliant colors. The light disturbs the wicked and stops the arm that is raised in violence. Job 38:215 NLT

September 2020 Sermon Series

Good morning everyone! Please join us Facebook live at 10 am for Grace Naz Worship.

Good morning Grace Naz family! The church will most likely be locked if you are planning to attend Prayer & Fasting at noon today, the 13th. I'm at a training and Alison is recouping from oral surgery. Please feel free to park in parking lot and pray for God's leading and resourcing of Grace Naz, revival in our own hearts as well as our nation, and for the voices and testimonies of authentic Jesus followers to be heard and seen, influencing nonbelievers to come to Christ. Pastor Chad