Grace Bible Church of Milford

Grace Bible Church of Milford A growing body of believers committed to worshipfully serving Christ on the East side of Cincinnati

Grace is a family of needy people whom God has graciously introduced to His Son, Jesus Christ. We gather weekly in hunger for the truth of God's Word that fuels our fellowship and enriches our ministry to each other. We delight together to offer to God worship and prayer services shaped by Scripture. Sunday Morning Bible Study: 9:30AM

Sunday Morning Worship: 10:30AM

Mid-Week Bible Study & Prayer: Wednesdays 7:15PM

06/01/2026

“We train [ourselves for godliness] not just because we have sick souls, however, but because spiritual growth doesn’t happen by accident” (Gary Thomas, Seeking the Face of God, 38)

05/25/2026

“I profess to believe that one thing is needful and sufficient, and yet my thoughts are prone to wander after a hundred more. If it be true that the light of [God’s] countenance is better than life, why am I solicitous about anything else? If He be all-sufficient and give me liberty to call Him mine, why do I go a begging to creatures for help?” (John Newton, Cardiphonia, 412).

05/18/2026

“I know that some Christians have allergic reactions when they are told that they are subject to God’s moral law in Exodus 20. This, they fear, is legalism and an effort at salvation by works. But that fear misunderstands the function of the Ten Commandments. The law (Exod. 20:3-17) comes in the context of grace (Exod. 20:1-2). Yahweh lays down His pattern in the Book of Exodus: He delivers His people (e.g., chs. 1-15), then He demands (10 commandments); He works His redemption before He sets down His requirements. He first sets Israel free and then tells them how that freedom is to be enjoyed and maintained. Glad obedience to Yahweh’s moral law is simply our ‘logical act of worship (cf. Rom. 12:1)” (Dale Ralph Davis, 1 Kings: The Wisdom and the Folly, 83).

05/11/2026

We are especially grateful for God’s gift of mothers. Through them, He gives us life. John Newton, the author of the well-known hymn Amazing Grace, reflected on how the care of God for his children often resembles a mother’s care: “the Lord deals with us as we sometimes see mothers with their children. When a child begins to walk, he is often very self-important: he thinks he needs no help, and can hardly bear to be supported by the finger of another. Now in such a case, if there is no danger of harm from a fall, as if he is on a plain carpet, the mother will let him alone to try how he can walk. He is pleased at first—but shortly, down he goes! A few experiments of this kind convince him that he is not so strong and able as he thought, and make him willing to be led. But was he upon the brink of a river or a precipice, from whence a fall might be fatal, the tender mother would not trust him to himself—no not for a moment!” (John Newton in a personal letter, October 15, 1774).

04/28/2026

The Church of England pastor, John Newton, summarizes in a personal letter how God guides His children: “He guides and directs His people, by affording them, in answer to prayer, the light of His Holy Spirit, which enables them to understand and to love the Scriptures. The word of God is not to be used as a lottery; nor is it designed to instruct us by shreds and scraps, which, detached from their proper places, have no determinate import; but [the Word] is to furnish us with just principles, right apprehensions to regulate our judgments and affections, and thereby to influence and direct our conduct” (from Select Letters of John Newton, “Divine Guidance,” Letter 13).

04/20/2026

Joseph’s response as he revealed himself to his once treacherous brothers displays the work that God had done in Joseph’s heart during the long 22-year interval. He said to those who betrayed him, So it was not you who sent me here, but God. James S. Stewart (1896-1990), a Scottish preacher from last century asks his readers: Are we able to “really confront the [changes] of life with a faith like that? To know that, whatever happens to you in this world your life can be not the sport of fate but a plan of God; to see the dark, somber threads being taken by the Master’s hand and woven along with the brightly colored ones into the final pattern; to know that no grim array of harsh-featured circumstance can pluck you or your loved ones out of the great Father’s care or defeat His final purpose of love; to know that things can never go so far wrong that the living God cannot control and bend them to His will, and that there are no thorns so sharp that God’s fingers cannot weave them into a crown of glory—this, and this alone, is life, joy, victory and serenity” (James S. Stewart, River of Life, “Sport of Fate or Plan of God?,” 74, a sermon on Genesis 45:8).

04/13/2026

The thoughtful reflection that we bring to our Scripture reading enhances the ministry of the Scripture in our hearts. Miles Coverdale (1488-1569), an early translator of the Bible into the English language, advised Bible readers to bring questions to each passage they read: “It shall greatly help you to understand Scripture if you mark not only what is spoken or written, but of whom, and unto whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstance, considering what goes before and what follows” (Miles Coverdale, “Prologue to the Reader,” in his 1535 English Bible translation).

03/23/2026

“Trouble does not automatically sanctify. Sometimes it does the opposite. Sometimes it breeds not saints but cynics. Sometimes it does not soften the spirit, but makes it hard and bitter. The fact is, trouble in itself is neutral. It needs something else – it needs the Spirit of God – to make it not neutral, but positive and creative. Listen to one who had found this great secret. ‘It doesn’t matter,’ wrote Hudson Taylor of China, ‘how great pressure is; it only matters where the pressure lies – whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you near and ever nearer to His heart of love.’ That is the great question. Is the pressure of life to thrust you into unbelief and denial – or to thrust you in the arms of the Eternal?” (James S. Stewart, River of Life, 59).

03/17/2026

Within Thy circling power I stand,
On every side I find Thy hand;
Awake, asleep, at home, abroad,
I am surrounded still with God.
O may these thoughts possess my breast,
Where’er I roam, where’er I rest,
Nor let my weaker passions dare
Consent to sin, for God is there.
(Isaac Watts, from hymn on Psalm 139)

03/09/2026

“Sudden reversals are difficult for most of us, for our eyes are not constantly on God. . . . When we experience a sudden reversal for the worse, we are despondent. We think God has abandoned us, and we become bitter. When we experience a sudden reversal for the better, we are arrogant. Instead of thinking God has abandoned us, we sometimes abandon God in our thinking and become quite secular. It is a rare Christian who can enjoy sudden prosperity and keep his or her spiritual life on course” (Genesis, Navigators Life Change Bible study series, 98).

Address

1004 Main Street
Milford, OH
45150

Opening Hours

Wednesday 7pm - 9pm
Sunday 9:30am - 2pm

Telephone

+15136080347

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