May 2, 2021

Upcoming Events and Notices

We have resumed in-person worship service. Please join us at 11 AM. You can find the order of worship and songs here

Please join us as we read another collection of great books for the year 2021. You can find the list here.

May 2 (Lord’s Day): All members are requested to attend the annual congregational meeting for the presentation and adoption of the budget for the fiscal year 2021–2022.

May 5 (Wednesday 7 PM): We will begin a new book study on Dane Ortlund's "Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers." Please read chapters 8–11. The chapters are short and easy to read! Zoom Meeting ID: 876 1265 9998

Thank you for your continued 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 can give towards Grace Fallbrook (PCA).

Before We Worship

Psalm 27:7-10 is the prayer of a man who knows he has no right to God's grace. He is only too well-aware of his disqualifying reality. He knows his sins, and what inevitably must follow. But against logic and justice he prays, "Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger…" What gives him this boldness to ask God to suspend his justice? God's promise gives him the right and the boldness.

"You have said, "Seek my face." My heart says to you, "Your face, LORD, do I seek."" The promise, stated once here and a thousand different times throughout the Bible, is that those who seek God will find him, and if we ask for forgiveness, he will grant it. Indeed, he does not grant forgiveness half-heartedly or with a reservation. God forgives with gladness and readiness. If there is one area where God lacks patience, it is surely his impatience to forgive. For as soon as we ask, he forgives. And he who is impatient to forgive also cannot stand to leave us in fear and doubt. This is how David knows, "For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the LORD will take me in." Even if sin ruptures the strongest love on earth, that of a father and a mother for their child, the sins of the broken and repentant believer can never cool the love of our heavenly Father. There is nothing that can sever his heart from us.

It may be that you are ashamed to seek God. You know your sins only too well. You fear justice for the sins you have cherished in your heart and life. But thanks be to God! He offers us grace, not justice. He welcomes us with a fatherly love. He is even now waiting impatiently for our return, and will at once run to receive us home.