Grace for the Pace

Check out our Bible Study series Grace for the Pace, meeting on Sundays weekly at 9:30 am.

In a fast-paced world of heavy demands and competing responsibilities, spiritual survival is a challenge. Yet God offers a resource to His children that enables them to far surpass mere survival and finish their course with success and victory. This power is the sustaining grace of God.

Many Christians think of grace only in relation to salvation, but in this thirteen-lesson curriculum, we learn how deeply we need God’s grace for every mile. God’s grace equips us, strengthens us, renews us, and sustains us. And its free supply far exceeds our many demands.

Grace for the Pace encourages us to fuel our spiritual tanks with the grace needed to keep the pace throughout our entire Christian journey.

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What's going on at Eastside Connection

God is doing great things in our college and career singles group. Hearts are being challenged and lives are being changed as we focus our attention upon His truth. Encouraging friendships are being built.

Come join us for life applicable Bible Study at Eastside Baptist Church on Sundays, at 9:30 am. Also join us for strengthening fellowship.

At the top of the page, you'll find a link to our church's website. On the right, check out our facebook page. Also, follow this link to see an area ministry called Cross Connect that brings church singles groups together.

Cross Connect

I am excited about a new ministry that is in the works with several area churches. We are seeking to enable single young adults to bridge the gap from high school to adulthood successfully without saying goodbye to the church. We are planning on accomplishing this through meeting a couple times per month to provide fellowship opportunities and spiritual encouragement to singles in their 20s and early 30s. I would appreciate your prayers for this ministry!

The Neglected Place of Prayer

"Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and shew thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not." Jeremiah 33:3

Prayer, along with God's Word, is the most effective weapon against Satan, but it is the most neglected. It is the most neglected because it is the least tangible. It takes the most faith.

We like to be doing things because we can see the actions and results. read more

A Good Message from a Dear Brother at Eastside

I Samuel 30:6 "And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God."

Tonight, we heard a great message from Brother Jim Clatterbuck, a layman in our church who is a former pastor. He gave the following simple remedy for discouragement:

1) Remember the Blood.

"There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins,

And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains."

2) Read the Book.

Remember to "Be still and know that I am God." (Psalm 46:10)

As we meditate on the truth of God's Word, the Lord gives us joy and peace.

3) Remember the Blessed Hope.

I Thess. 4:13-18

13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus

will God bring with him.

15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

As Christians, when we get discouraged, we must look back to these stabilizing truths. We are not going to be in this world forever. Our hope is in heaven! Let's allow God's Word to encourage our hearts.

A Received Word - A Changed Life

In continuing our series on "The Gospel at Work," this Sunday we will be taking a look at the changed characteristics that the Apostle Paul points out about the lives of the Thessalonian believers in his letter to them. Once again, it is amazing to see how the Gospel of Jesus Christ took worshipers of the idols of Greece and changed them into faithful followers of Jesus Christ.

The Gospel at Work

We are going to begin a new Bible Study series this coming Sunday, October 25, at 9:30 a.m., on the subject of "The Gospel at Work: How God's Message of Salvation Transformed a Group of First Century Pagans into a Model Church." Our study will be drawn from the pages of Scripture in I Thessalonians, as the Missionary Paul writes a letter to the thriving church of Thessalonica, commending their godly lives. In the letter, we see how the message of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection transformed these idol worshippers into worshippers of the only true God, and what this God can do in the lives of all who will turn from their sin and trust Him. I hope you'll come be a part of this exciting study! We meet at Eastside Baptist Church on Sunday at 9:30 a.m.