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

08/31/2026

“Suppose a son is walking with his father, in whose wisdom he places the most entire confidence. He follows where his father leads, though it may be through thorns and briers, cheerfully and contentedly. – Another son, we will suppose, distrusts his father’s wisdom and love, and when the path is rough or uneven, begins to murmur and repine, wishing that he might be allowed to choose his own path; and though he is obliged to follow, it is with great reluctance and discontent. Now the reason that Christians in general do not enjoy more of God’s presence, is, that they are not willing to walk in his path, when it crosses their inclinations. But we shall never be happy, until we acquiesce with perfect cheerfulness in all His decisions, and follow where He leads without a murmur” (Works of Edward Payson, 3 vols. 1:463).

08/24/2026

“If God had told me some time ago, that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world, and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in all my limbs, and removing me from all my usual sources of enjoyment; I should have thought it a very strange mode of accomplishing His purpose. And yet, how is His wisdom manifest even in this! For if you should see a man shut up in a closed room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy; you would begin by blowing out all his lamps, and then throw open the shutters to let in the light of heaven” (Works of Edward Payson, 3 vols. 1:463).

08/17/2026

“When heavy trials in life are appointed to us, . . . a view of Jesus by faith comes home to the point. When we can fix our thoughts upon Him, as laying aside all His honors, and submitting for our sakes to drink off the bitter cup of the wrath of God to the very dregs; and when we further consider, that He who thus suffered in our nature, who knows and sympathizes with all our weakness — is now the Supreme Disposer of all that concerns us, that He numbers the very hairs of our heads, appoints every trial we meet with in number, weight, and measure, and will allow nothing to befall us but what shall contribute to our good — this view, I say, is a medicine suited to the disease, and powerfully reconciles us to every cross!” (John Newton, Letter to Mrs. Medhurst, September 10, 1760).

07/27/2026

“Work ON OUR KNEES. I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of God’s people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not. Paul may plant and Apollos water, but it is God who gives the increase; and this increase can be brought down from heaven by believing prayer, whether offered in China or England. We are, as it were, God’s agents—used by Him to do His work, not ours. We do our part, and then can only look to Him, with others, for His blessing. If this is so, then Christians at home can do as much for foreign missions as those actually on the field. I believe it will only be known on the Last Day how much has been accomplished in missionary work by prayers of earnest believers at home. . . . Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees” (James O. Fraser (1886-1938), missionary to the Lisu in China, in Fraser and Prayer, by his wife, 26).

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow, Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea,What matters beating wind and...
07/20/2026

Thou art the Lord who slept upon the pillow,
Thou art the Lord who soothed the furious sea,
What matters beating wind and tossing billow
If only we are in the boat with Thee?
Hold us quiet through the age-long minute
While Thou art silent and the wind is shrill:
Can the boat sink while Thou, dear Lord, are in it?
Can the heart faint that waiteth on Thy will? (Amy Carmichael (1867-1951), Toward Jerusalem, 1931)

07/13/2026

Many Christians came to John Newton (1725-1807), the Church of England pastor who gifted us with the hymn Amazing Grace, for counsel. Among them were Christians burdened fulfill Christ’s prayerful desire that His own be in the world but not of the world (John 17). Newton advised them to “do their business with the world as they do it in the rain” – to get in as necessity may demand, but to get out and avoid lingering to avoid chilling saturation. “Providential and necessary calls of duty, that lead us into the world, will not hurt us, if we find the spirit of the world unpleasant, and we are glad to retire from it, and keep out of it as much as our relative duties will permit. That which is our cross, is not so likely to be our snare.”

Missionary Spotlight: Aaron and Rachel Houtz – AlaskaAaron and Rachel grew up in the same church in upstate New York, a...
07/06/2026

Missionary Spotlight: Aaron and Rachel Houtz – Alaska

Aaron and Rachel grew up in the same church in upstate New York, and there both came to know the Lord early in life. Recently Abigail Grace (born May 16th) joined her siblings Anna, James, Melea on the Houtz team of church-planting missionaries to the areas surrounding Iliamna, Alaska. Grace Bible Church has supported them financially since 2024. In addition to the challenges of a having a newborn and other ministry responsibilities, they are working this summer to physically move their house to a newly-prepared plot of land. Please pray for the Lord’s continued provision for this project, for good health overall (especially for Rachel and Abigail), and for opportunities for them to share Christ this summer.

06/30/2026

You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you can not do more than pray until you have prayed. And just there is where we have all seemed to make a slip at times, and many of us are yet making it – a bad slip. We think we can do more where we are through our service: then prayer to give power to service. No – with the blackest of underscoring of emphasis, let it be said, – NO. We can do no thing of real power until we have done the prayer thing” (S. D. Gordon, Quiet Talks on Prayer, 16-17, original emphasis).

06/23/2026

“The man who has not repented, but who is only experiencing remorse, when he realizes he has done something against God, avoids God. . . . The man who has not been dealt with by the Spirit of God and has not been convinced and convicted, tries to get away from God, to avoid him at all costs. He does not think, he does not read the Bible, he does not pray; he does everything he can not to think about these things. But the extraordinary thing about the man who is convicted of sin by the Holy Spirit is that though he knows he has sinned against God, it is God he wants—‘Be merciful to me, O God.’ He wants to be with God—that is the peculiar paradox of repentance, wanting the one I have offended!” (D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, on Psalm 51:11).

06/15/2026

The testimony of a Scottish pastor, Alexander Stewart (1794-1847), concerning the work God was doing in him and his congregation is most encouraging. Stewart had entered the ministry without knowing Christ, but God had opened his heart to the truth, and he hungrily heard God’s voice in the Bible’s pages. In a personal letter, he explained the new desire that drove their renewed Bible study: “The great point which claims the attention of each of us, is not what is the opinion of such a favorite author, or such an esteemed friend? . . . But, what says the divine oracle? What has the Lord, our Creator, our Sovereign, our Judge, been pleased to tell us? Whatever information He has thought fit to communicate, it surely demands that we attend to it most seriously, to receive it submissively, and to apply it directly and diligently to our own use” (adapted from James Sievewright, Alexander Stewart: A Transformed Life and Ministry, 103).

Address

1004 Main Street
Milford, OH
45150

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+15136080347

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