Love in AZ Banquet

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Love in AZ Valentine Banquet @ church Fri Feb 17 at 7 pm $3 per person, 4 couples and singles event. Spaghetti dinner music & gifts

Feel Stronger and Alive Again

Thursday, January 26th, 2012

A strong and healthy body helps with living a better life and accomplish God’s will in our lives.  It is a loss to the world when people who have a desire to do more in their life for Jesus and their health does not permit them.   I was moving into that place for a couple of years. I was not motivated and did not want to do [...]

An Environment Of Prayer

Tuesday, December 27th, 2011

There are many ways we can be involved in prayer at Grace Chapel. Building a life of prayer in the people of God is just one of the practices of the Christian life and the church. There are several elements that constitute the life of a Christian. One of these is a solid prayer life. [...]

Feeling Hopeless?

Monday, November 28th, 2011

If you are feeling hopeless today and feel like you can’t take another step, just get through the night. Tomorrow changes everything. From someone who knows.  – r His mercies are new every morning. (see Lamentations 3:21-23) Don’t, just wait for the morning Light. – ld

Growing Up In God’s Family

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

“Uh-oh, get the wipes, I smell a dirty diaper!”  This is something you hear in a family with babies and toddlers. This is a common occurrence until the toddler goes into a different stage of growth in the child’s life.   Like a family the goal of the church is to mature disciples. The goal of parents is to help children [...]

Moving the Traditional Church Forward

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

By Lupe Diaz – Pastor, Grace Chapel Benson     Rural communities usually have a very traditional expectation of the church. When the leaders want to move the church forward it may cross the expectations of the traditional older members. What is amazing is that many of the rural churches live within traveling distance to [...]

Pastor Surrounds Himself With Those that Agree With Him

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

  By Lupe Diaz – Pastor, Grace Chapel Benson   I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of [...]

Stuck in the Mud and Feeling Bogged Down? Part 1

Monday, October 3rd, 2011

Sunday October 2, 2011 By Lupe Diaz – Pastor, Grace Chapel Benson     When we were kids we found a area of mud that accumulated near our home after the monsoon rains. We started walking along the edges of the mud pit. Then realized that there was a layer of this mud sticking to [...]

I Have Found That I Am Bipolar

Monday, September 26th, 2011

  We were talking the morning after a good workout and walking our cool down lap when Brian says “I have found that I am bipolar”. He was thinking about the verses in Romans 7 he read earlier that day. It happens so regularly that it’s predictable. The moment I decide to do good, sin [...]

Life is not Scripted

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

…we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead,  who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us,  you also helping together in prayer for us,.. (2 Corinthians 1:9b-10a)  [...]