September 13, 2020

Upcoming Events and Notices

We are resuming in-person worship service. Please join us for worship at 11 AM. We request all adults and older children to wear a mask and maintain social distancing.

You can find the order of worship and songs here.

The September 6, 2020 sermon, Proverbs 3:13–26. "Blessings Abound Where Wisdom Abides" is available on our church website. You can also catch up on older sermons from our Sermon page and subscribe to sermon podcast here.

September 16 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will begin a new online study series based on J.I. Packer's "Knowing God." Please join us via Zooom. We encourage you to read "Chapter One: The Study of God" for this week's study.

Thank you for your coninued support of Grace Fallbrook (PCA). Your loving support makes the proclamation of the gospel and the building up of the saints possible. Please continue to mail in your gifts and offerings to our church treasurer, Bruce Summers. In addition, our church website now features online giving. Please visit the church website and click on "Give" which you will find in the upper left corner of our church's website. When you click on "Give Online Now" button on that page, you will be directed to the PCA Foundation where you give towards Grace Fallbrook (PCA).

Before We Worship

We are all weary. We are worn out from the pandemic and from the disturbing incidents of police brutality and violent protests. We are exhausted by the bitter partisanship of the political process. It has been way too hot and it seems like the whole state is on fire. Not to mention the ten thousand other things that weigh on our hearts. Isn't it so easy to lose our heart? Do you not find yourself longing for things to go back to "the way they were"? But what, exactly, is that?

If we are longing to return to a life undisturbed by the very present evils of this world, if we are hungering for the kind of existence where we do not desperately seek God's mercies every moment, then "going back to the way things were" would not be a blessing, but a curse. And all the pains we have endured will have been truly meaningless.

Instead, we pray that the many things that make our hearts ache teach us a new "normal." Our new "normal" should be living by faith in a dark and troubled world, seeking and resting in our Savior momement by moment for he alone can give us rest for our poor and weary souls. And it begins now. Jesus is caling us. "Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Jesus alone can give us rest. Will you come to Jesus?