By Glen Callanan Brothers and Sisters at Grace Church St. Louis,   We know the story well.  In the Valley of Elah the armies of Israel stood still while a giant named Goliath mocked them and their God for forty days. King Saul and his trained soldiers had the...

By Peggy Welker In January 2024, the Missouri Freedom Caucus (MO-FC) was created as “a coalition of conservative lawmakers and local leaders committed to defending liberty, restoring accountability, and standing up for the people of Missouri.” They pledge to filter...

By Peggy Welker If you do a friendly Google search of Brandon Hammonds, you can learn quite a bit. Pastor Brandon has been a teaching pastor at Grace Church since January 2022 and has built a strong foundation for our Sunday School classes. He attended Asbury...

By Peggy Welker Many stories and news reports are circulating about the increased influence of the religion and culture of Islam in America. And yet, America has a long history of accepting many faiths into the country as early as 1620. David Barton writes: “The...

By Glen Callanan in conjunction with Chris Hayes In the St. Louis area, few stories so clearly display God’s power and the transforming grace of Jesus Christ as that of Captain Tommy Shine of the Wentzville Fire Protection District.   On January 14, 2015, Shine...

By Peggy Welker And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. – Hebrews 10:24-25   Our...

By Glen Callanan As Pastor Ron and Wes often address in our weekly message, our responsibilities as members of Grace don’t end when we exit campus. Our duties to make new disciples go past our attendance to service and go into the public square. That is why we need...

By Kate Mansfield The growth of Islam in the United States has sparked significant discussion in news outlets, conservative media, and social platforms. A primary concern is the incompatibility of political Islam and Shari’a law with the U.S. Constitution and American...

By Lou Lesinski Gerrymandering: the practice of redrawing electoral districts to gain an electoral advantage for a political party.   Over the past 40 years or more, while citizens have largely been asleep, politicians have been manipulating the electoral...

In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7–2 in the Roe v. Wade decision, nullifying existing state law that restricted abortions, and interpreted the US Constitution as implicitly protecting a woman’s decision to choose abortion under the due process clause of the 14th...

HB 2688 (Darin Chappell) – Unborn child protection rights under 5th and 14th amendments of US Constitution (passed out of committee) SB 1238 – Charlie Kirk American Heritage Act: teach on the positive impacts of religion on American history (hearing conducted) HJR 154...

Back in my twenties, I always looked ahead to my forties, thinking I would have gained all the wisdom and insight about life by then.  How wrong I was! The more I age, the more I realize there is more to life and faith, and even a bigger space for me to grow into. My...