Grace Baptist Church, Madison, IN

Grace Baptist Church, Madison, IN We are a group of believers in Jesus Christ. We love the LORD, His Word, and others.

We are followers of Jesus Christ, growing in His grace, encouraging one another, serving the Lord Jesus & others, and striving to advance the Gospel.

Notice the verb."Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."Not build this mind. Not achieve it. Let. That...
09/07/2026

Notice the verb.

"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."
Not build this mind. Not achieve it. Let. That is the language of yielding, not manufacture. Something is being offered, and the command is to stop resisting it — to make room, to let it be.
Paul is about to describe the most staggering humility in history: God Himself, making Himself of no reputation, obedient unto death. Read as a standard to reach, it would flatten anyone. But it is not a standard held up at a distance. It is the mind of a Person — and everything Paul asks of you rests on being joined to Him.
So the question underneath this verse is not am I humble enough yet. It comes before that.

Are you in Christ?

📖 Philippians 2:5

09/07/2026

Everything Scripture asks of a believer — humility, unity, a life worthy of the gospel, & the mind of Christ — is impossible without one thing first. Not difficult. Impossible. You cannot borrow the mind of Christ without belonging to Christ. You cannot live out a heavenly citizenship you have never received. Before any of it can be attempted, there is a question that must be settled: have you repented of your sin and unbelief, and come to trust in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation? Everything else follows from that. Nothing else works without it.

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09/01/2026

God can speak of His deliverance in the past tense because it is that certain. Not likely. Not probable. Finished. He has been in control. He is in control right now. He will be in control when everything you are currently worried about has run its course. Nothing in His creation escapes Him — not the outcome you cannot see, not the thing that kept you awake last night, not the crisis that feels like it is spinning loose. The LORD of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah — stop and think about that.

A fortress does no good to the man standing outside it.That is the quiet weight of this verse. God does not merely say H...
09/01/2026

A fortress does no good to the man standing outside it.

That is the quiet weight of this verse. God does not merely say He is strong. He says He is ours — the LORD of hosts, commander of every army in heaven, is with us. The God who kept covenant with Jacob, a deceiver who deserved nothing, is our fortress.

Then the psalm does something unusual. It stops. Selah. Pause here. Think about this.

Because knowing where the fortress stands is not the same as being inside it. You can affirm every word of this verse and still spend your week carrying what you were never meant to carry, bracing against what He has already handled, awake at night running scenarios He has already settled.

He is not asking you to understand the outcome. He is asking you to come in & trust in Him.

08/31/2026

Paul tells Timothy to be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and then gives a command: what you have heard from me, commit to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. There is an implied necessity buried inside that verse. If you are to pass on what you have learned, then you must be learning. And unlike the tasks we love to check off and forget, this cycle never closes — a pattern that has carried the gospel across two thousand years.

Grace Baptist Church · Madison, Indiana · gbcmadison.com

Inside that command is an implied necessity, unstated but unmistakable. If you are to pass on what you have received, yo...
08/31/2026

Inside that command is an implied necessity, unstated but unmistakable. If you are to pass on what you have received, you must be receiving. The teacher never graduates out of being a student. The moment you stop learning of the Lord, you have nothing left to pour into anyone else.

You cannot give away what you have never received. So today, before we consider who we might invest in, ask the prior question — am I still sitting under the Word myself? Am I still being taught? The strength for all of it comes from one place, and Paul names it in the verse just before: be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

Not your discipline. Not your capacity. His grace.

08/28/2026

Scripture calls believers to be good citizens wherever they live — but confusion sets in when earthly citizenship gets exalted above our citizenship in heaven. Philippians 1:27 gives the corrective. The root sense is a balanced scale: the Gospel laid on one pan, your life on the other. Paul is not asking whether you live a decent life, or a better one than before you knew Christ. He is asking whether the two beams balance. And the verb is present tense — a continual, persistent, active way of living. Let your heavenly citizenship be equal to the weight of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Grace Baptist Church · Madison, Indiana · gbcmadison.com

Notice the word planted. The tree did not wander to the water; it was put there. Behind every fruitful believer is a God...
08/28/2026

Notice the word planted. The tree did not wander to the water; it was put there. Behind every fruitful believer is a God who transplanted him from barren ground. And notice where it stands — by streams, drawing continually from a source outside itself. The preceding verse tells us what those streams are: the man who delights in the law of the LORD and meditates on it day and night. A tree does not strain to produce fruit; it draws, and fruit follows in its season. That word matters too — in its season. Growth is rarely as fast as we would like. But the roots are doing work you cannot see. Stay near the water of God's Word. Let God bring the fruit in His time.

08/26/2026

Everything the Christian life offers — peace, purpose, freedom from fear, hope beyond the grave — is impossible without knowing Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Have you been persuaded that He is God's only appointed Savior of men? That His death is the only sacrifice God will accept, and that the resurrection proved it? The promises of salvation are sure for everyone who will repent and believe on Christ alone. Don't wait. If you are gripped right now by the reality of your position before God, call out to Him, and ask Him to save you and forgive your sins.

Grace Baptist Church · Madison, Indiana · gbcmadison.com

Jeremiah writes these words standing in the ruins of Jerusalem. He has just said his soul is bowed down within him, that...
08/26/2026

Jeremiah writes these words standing in the ruins of Jerusalem. He has just said his soul is bowed down within him, that his endurance has perished. Then comes the turn: "But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope." Notice that hope did not arrive with a change in circumstances — the city was still rubble. It came from what he deliberately called to mind about God. His love does not run out. His mercies do not get used up. And they are new every morning. Whatever you face when you wake tomorrow, there will be fresh mercy waiting for it. Great is Thy faithfulness.

Address

920 Montclair Street
Madison, IN
47250

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
7pm - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Sunday 9:45am - 12pm
6pm - 7pm

Telephone

+19363201567

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