Grace Chapel

06/01/2026

A bible verse just for you, to start your week off right ✨ which one did you get? 🤍

05/25/2026

Author and pastor Dallas Willard draws a line between two very different versions of the Christian life. One is organized around sinning less — as if the goal is a clean moral record. The other is organized around transformation — becoming, through genuine relationship with God, the kind of person who naturally desires what is good.

The first version is exhausting and often isolating. You become preoccupied with your own performance, guarded with others, and quietly terrified that someone will see through the effort to the mess underneath.

The other version looks different. It's less tidy— it requires honesty about your brokenness, vulnerability in community, the willingness to be known.

The story of two men, Carl and Mike, shows us what happens when two people living different versions of the Christian life begin to form a friendship.

A man named Carl had made a wreck of his life. By his own reckoning, he was a lapsed Christian trying to find solid ground again. He had destroyed a thirty-year marriage. His adult children wanted nothing to do with him. The people who once...

05/20/2026

A lot of people walked away from church because it felt like the whole thing was about rules.

Do this. Don’t do that. Dress right. Vote right. Talk right. Believe right.

Break those rules and you were made to feel like an outsider. So you became one.

Or maybe you didn’t walk away from church; maybe you’re still there, doing all the church things.

But you’re feeling exhausted. Like you’re always playing catch-up, always coming from behind.

You learned to follow the rules so well. You know the right answers. You’re pretty sure you know what a “good Christian” looks like, and you’re trying to make sure that’s what you look like.

Whether you've walked away from church, or are are still hanging in there but starting to wonder why, we want you to know this: we understand. And there's a lot more to faith than following the rules.

A lot of people walked away from church because it felt like the whole thing was about rules. Do this. Don’t do that. Dress right. Vote right. Talk right. Believe right. Break those rules and you were made to feel like an outsider. So you...

05/10/2026

Mom, thank you for… everything! ✨

Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing moms out there! 🌸💕🌷