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...
An Individual Perspective and Recap of the August 2026 Election
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...
Testimony: Brandon Hammonds
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...
Islam and Our Call to Faith
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...
Tommy Shine: A Story of Courage, Miracles, and Faith in Christ
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...
Saving Lives – Spreading the Gospel Message like a Wildfire
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...
Protecting Missouri’s Future: A Christian Call to Consider Amendment 4
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...
Political Islam, Sharia, and Missouri’s “No Foreign Laws Act”
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...
Gerrymandering
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...
Life of a Rescuer: Seeing God’s Hand in Every Situation
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...
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