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LIVE Evening Worship Service - Legacy
About The Service:
LaGrave member and Rest Haven Chaplain, Rev. Tricia Bosma, will preach. She will use Romans 4:16-25 as her text for the sermon, "Legacy."
Order of Worship:
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About Us:
We are a traditional CRC church in the middle of Downtown Grand Rapids, MI, worshipping at 8:40am, 11:00am, and 6:00pm. (10:00am and 6:00pm during the summer months)
We'd love to hear from you:
Connection: https://www.lagrave.org/contact
Let us pray for you:
Prayer: https://www.lagrave.org/prayerrequest/
Giving: https://www.elexiogiving.com/App/Givi...
The June special offering is for Pine Rest Patient Assistance Fund: Part of Pine Rest Foundation Fund offering financial assistance for individuals, families and children who need care.
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A Legacy of Faith When Hope Seems Lost
Called, Welcomed, and Sent by God
Trisha Basma opens the evening worship service with Jesus’s call of Matthew and His declaration that He came not for the righteous, but for sinners. She connects that passage with God’s call to Adam and Eve in Genesis, emphasizing that God continues to come to His people, call them, and send them into the world. After welcoming both in-person and online worshippers, Basma introduces herself as a LaGrave member and chaplain serving residents in long-term care, rehabilitation, and memory care at Resthaven in Holland, Michigan. She then turns to Genesis 12, presenting Abram’s call as a reminder that God not only summons people into relationship but also sends them out as agents of blessing.
Creation, Human Dignity, and Prayer in the Darkness
The service continues with Psalm 8 and its vision of God’s majesty displayed throughout creation. Basma reflects on humanity’s smallness beneath the heavens while also emphasizing the dignity, honor, and responsibility God gives human beings within creation. In prayer, she contrasts the brilliance of creation with the darkness of sin within human hearts and the wider shadow of evil, disease, and suffering in the world. She asks for forgiveness, renewed light through the Holy Spirit, and strength for the congregation. She offers specific intercessions for members receiving hospice care and those battling cancer, asking for endurance and the light of God’s love. The prayer also extends to LaGrave’s plans for serving people in the Heartside District.
The Spiritual Question of Legacy
Turning to Romans 4:16–25, Basma introduces the G.E.R.O. 6, a spiritual assessment designed for older adults. She explains that it explores death and dying, spiritual concerns, religious concerns, autonomy, connection, identity, and legacy. While several themes overlap with other assessment tools, she notes that legacy is the distinctive concern in the geriatric model. In her chaplaincy work, residents often ask whether their lives mattered, whether they made a difference, and how they will be remembered. These questions can become especially urgent after a dementia diagnosis, when people fear increasing dependence, diminished identity, and the possibility that their remaining life will become smaller or less meaningful.
Abraham’s Delayed Promise and Dashed Expectations
Basma uses Abraham as the sermon’s central example. In the ancient Near East, legacy was closely connected with land and descendants, yet Abraham initially possessed neither. God promised him both a family and a land, but many years passed without visible fulfillment. Even after God confirmed the covenant, Abraham learned that he would not personally witness the full realization of the promises and that his descendants would first endure generations of enslavement. Basma compares Abraham’s disappointment with modern experiences such as losing a hoped-for job or promotion, missing an achievement, or enduring the pain of childlessness. She acknowledges that hope can become painful when reality appears to contradict everything a person expected from God.
From Hoping for a Blessing to Hoping in God
Romans describes Abraham as believing “against all hope,” and Basma presents this as the sermon’s central spiritual transformation. She describes a seismic shift in Abraham’s faith: his hope moved from the blessing itself to the God who had the power and faithfulness to accomplish what He promised. Basma illustrates this with a child standing at the edge of a pool, trusting not merely that arms will appear, but that the father waiting below is dependable. Abraham believed that God could bring life out of bodies marked by age, barrenness, and apparent death. That trust, rather than the immediate possession of land or descendants, became Abraham’s true legacy and was credited to him as righteousness.
Hope for a Church That Appears to Be Dying
Basma then applies Abraham’s experience to concerns about declining church attendance, church closures, and younger generations leaving both the church and the faith. She cites a report estimating that 10,000 churches may close during the year, using that figure to illustrate why many believers fear that the church’s legacy is weakening. She recounts older residents grieving congregations they served for decades and mourning that their children and grandchildren have walked away. Empty sanctuaries can appear, in her image, like barren wombs unable to bear witness to the life and light of Christ. Yet she argues that the apparent decline of the church is not the final word because Jesus promised to build His church and declared that the gates of Hades would not overcome it.
The Covenant of Christ and a Living Legacy of Faith
Basma concludes with three sources of hope: God’s promises remain dependable, Christian hope must rest in God rather than visible results, and death is never the final answer in the work of God. She compares God’s covenant with Abraham to the new covenant established through the body and blood of Jesus Christ. She argues that if Abraham’s covenant displayed God’s determination to keep His promises, then the blood of Jesus gives believers confidence that the promises of redemption and the life of the church will also be fulfilled. Through faith in the God who raised Jesus from the dead, believers receive righteousness and become bearers of light in a dark world. She closes by urging believers to live so that their obituary could truthfully say they left a legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.
LIVE Evening Worship Service - Legacy
About The Service:
LaGrave member and Rest Haven Chaplain, Rev. Tricia Bosma, will preach. She will use Romans 4:16-25 as her text for the sermon, "Legacy."
Order of Worship:
https://lagrave.org/wp-content/upload...
About Us:
We are a traditional CRC church in the middle of Downtown Grand Rapids, MI, worshipping at 8:40am, 11:00am, and 6:00pm. (10:00am and 6:00pm during the summer months)
We'd love to hear from you:
Connection: https://www.lagrave.org/contact
Let us pray for you:
Prayer: https://www.lagrave.org/prayerrequest/
Giving: https://www.elexiogiving.com/App/Givi...
The June special offering is for Pine Rest Patient Assistance Fund: Part of Pine Rest Foundation Fund offering financial assistance for individuals, families and children who need care.
Listen on the go:
Amazon Music: https://bit.ly/LGPodAmazonMusic
Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3tuOdwQ
Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/LGPodGoogle
Soundcloud: / lagravecrc
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3yXDFaT
Follow us!
Facebook: / lagravecrc
Instagram: / lagravecrc
Website: https://www.lagrave.org
#LaGrave #LaGraveCRC
A Legacy of Faith When Hope Seems Lost
Called, Welcomed, and Sent by God
Trisha Basma opens the evening worship service with Jesus’s call of Matthew and His declaration that He came not for the righteous, but for sinners. She connects that passage with God’s call to Adam and Eve in Genesis, emphasizing that God continues to come to His people, call them, and send them into the world. After welcoming both in-person and online worshippers, Basma introduces herself as a LaGrave member and chaplain serving residents in long-term care, rehabilitation, and memory care at Resthaven in Holland, Michigan. She then turns to Genesis 12, presenting Abram’s call as a reminder that God not only summons people into relationship but also sends them out as agents of blessing.
Creation, Human Dignity, and Prayer in the Darkness
The service continues with Psalm 8 and its vision of God’s majesty displayed throughout creation. Basma reflects on humanity’s smallness beneath the heavens while also emphasizing the dignity, honor, and responsibility God gives human beings within creation. In prayer, she contrasts the brilliance of creation with the darkness of sin within human hearts and the wider shadow of evil, disease, and suffering in the world. She asks for forgiveness, renewed light through the Holy Spirit, and strength for the congregation. She offers specific intercessions for members receiving hospice care and those battling cancer, asking for endurance and the light of God’s love. The prayer also extends to LaGrave’s plans for serving people in the Heartside District.
The Spiritual Question of Legacy
Turning to Romans 4:16–25, Basma introduces the G.E.R.O. 6, a spiritual assessment designed for older adults. She explains that it explores death and dying, spiritual concerns, religious concerns, autonomy, connection, identity, and legacy. While several themes overlap with other assessment tools, she notes that legacy is the distinctive concern in the geriatric model. In her chaplaincy work, residents often ask whether their lives mattered, whether they made a difference, and how they will be remembered. These questions can become especially urgent after a dementia diagnosis, when people fear increasing dependence, diminished identity, and the possibility that their remaining life will become smaller or less meaningful.
Abraham’s Delayed Promise and Dashed Expectations
Basma uses Abraham as the sermon’s central example. In the ancient Near East, legacy was closely connected with land and descendants, yet Abraham initially possessed neither. God promised him both a family and a land, but many years passed without visible fulfillment. Even after God confirmed the covenant, Abraham learned that he would not personally witness the full realization of the promises and that his descendants would first endure generations of enslavement. Basma compares Abraham’s disappointment with modern experiences such as losing a hoped-for job or promotion, missing an achievement, or enduring the pain of childlessness. She acknowledges that hope can become painful when reality appears to contradict everything a person expected from God.
From Hoping for a Blessing to Hoping in God
Romans describes Abraham as believing “against all hope,” and Basma presents this as the sermon’s central spiritual transformation. She describes a seismic shift in Abraham’s faith: his hope moved from the blessing itself to the God who had the power and faithfulness to accomplish what He promised. Basma illustrates this with a child standing at the edge of a pool, trusting not merely that arms will appear, but that the father waiting below is dependable. Abraham believed that God could bring life out of bodies marked by age, barrenness, and apparent death. That trust, rather than the immediate possession of land or descendants, became Abraham’s true legacy and was credited to him as righteousness.
Hope for a Church That Appears to Be Dying
Basma then applies Abraham’s experience to concerns about declining church attendance, church closures, and younger generations leaving both the church and the faith. She cites a report estimating that 10,000 churches may close during the year, using that figure to illustrate why many believers fear that the church’s legacy is weakening. She recounts older residents grieving congregations they served for decades and mourning that their children and grandchildren have walked away. Empty sanctuaries can appear, in her image, like barren wombs unable to bear witness to the life and light of Christ. Yet she argues that the apparent decline of the church is not the final word because Jesus promised to build His church and declared that the gates of Hades would not overcome it.
The Covenant of Christ and a Living Legacy of Faith
Basma concludes with three sources of hope: God’s promises remain dependable, Christian hope must rest in God rather than visible results, and death is never the final answer in the work of God. She compares God’s covenant with Abraham to the new covenant established through the body and blood of Jesus Christ. She argues that if Abraham’s covenant displayed God’s determination to keep His promises, then the blood of Jesus gives believers confidence that the promises of redemption and the life of the church will also be fulfilled. Through faith in the God who raised Jesus from the dead, believers receive righteousness and become bearers of light in a dark world. She closes by urging believers to live so that their obituary could truthfully say they left a legacy of faith in Jesus Christ.
Bible News Prophecy with Dr Bob Thiel
Rape: There Shall be Terror Within
In Deuteronomy 32:25 God says “there shall be terror within”.
What is terror? Terror has different meanings for different people. What if you’re an 11-year-old girl? An 11-year-old girl who is looking forward to playing with her schoolmates and friends for days on end. What would terror be to an 11-year-old girl? How about deception, brutality and rape? Over and over. Your dreams of playing with your friends for days on end are now shattered forever. Would that be a terror to you if you were an 11-year-old girl?
That’s what’s happening to thousands of young, poor, forgotten girls across countries in the world every day. By whom you might ask? There are reports documenting these atrocities by migrants to European countries which come from the Muslim dominated nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
But don’t worry, you say. The government will crack down on the evil doers and put an end to the madness. Really? Are you sure? Have you looked into it? Did France arrest a woman for telling the truth about migrant raping of women?
Why is this happening? Does the Bible prophesy rape and increased brutality for the last days? Is that part of why there are all these horrific terrors coming on the world now? Does the Bible show that this will end during the millennial reign of Jesus in the coming Kingdom of God?
For the answers, and the solution, watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical truth on the “terrors within”, what the terrors are, who is committing the terrors, and what’s the cause.
Read the full article to this video titled “Massive rapings by aliens–‘There shall be terror within’” at URL
https://www.cogwriter.com/news/prophecy/massive-alien-rapists-there-will-be-terror-within/
Rape: There Shall be Terror Within
In Deuteronomy 32:25 God says “there shall be terror within”.
What is terror? Terror has different meanings for different people. What if you’re an 11-year-old girl? An 11-year-old girl who is looking forward to playing with her schoolmates and friends for days on end. What would terror be to an 11-year-old girl? How about deception, brutality and rape? Over and over. Your dreams of playing with your friends for days on end are now shattered forever. Would that be a terror to you if you were an 11-year-old girl?
That’s what’s happening to thousands of young, poor, forgotten girls across countries in the world every day. By whom you might ask? There are reports documenting these atrocities by migrants to European countries which come from the Muslim dominated nations in the Middle East and North Africa.
But don’t worry, you say. The government will crack down on the evil doers and put an end to the madness. Really? Are you sure? Have you looked into it? Did France arrest a woman for telling the truth about migrant raping of women?
Why is this happening? Does the Bible prophesy rape and increased brutality for the last days? Is that part of why there are all these horrific terrors coming on the world now? Does the Bible show that this will end during the millennial reign of Jesus in the coming Kingdom of God?
For the answers, and the solution, watch this video as Dr. Thiel shines the light of Biblical truth on the “terrors within”, what the terrors are, who is committing the terrors, and what’s the cause.
Read the full article to this video titled “Massive rapings by aliens–‘There shall be terror within’” at URL
https://www.cogwriter.com/news/prophecy/massive-alien-rapists-there-will-be-terror-within/
