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LaGrave Live
LIVE Morning Worship Service 07-05-2026
The Way of Wisdom: A Teachable Spirit
About The Service:
We will continue our summer sermon series called The Way of Wisdom. Pastor Manion will be focusing on Proverbs that show us the value of learning and receiving feedback from others. Her sermon is entitled "A Teachable Spirit."
Order of Worship:
https://lagrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-7-5-AM-Order-of-Worship.pdf
About the Church:
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/Giving/lagr107178
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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Learning to Love Correction: Wisdom, Humility, and the Teachable Spirit
Summary
A Service Framed by Wisdom and Grace
The service at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church opens with worship, welcome, and a reminder that the God who raised Jesus from the dead is present with the congregation. The morning centers on wisdom, correction, humility, and the grace of being restored when one has wandered. The call to confession draws from Matthew 18 and James 5, emphasizing that correction is not meant for shame or exclusion but for reclaiming one another in love.
Confession That Breaks Pride Open
The confession acknowledges the ways people resist wise correction, ignore the community God provides, and cling to pride. The assurance of pardon from Ezekiel 11 promises a new heart and new spirit, replacing hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. The worship language presents repentance not as humiliation but as an opening to God's mercy and transforming work.
Prayer for a Church and Nation in Need of Holiness
The pastoral prayer reflects on creation, sin, national life, and the need for God to purify and remake his people. The congregation prays for those recovering from surgery, those receiving treatment, those in nursing care, and families grieving recent deaths. The prayer also recognizes the nation's anniversary while placing ultimate trust not in earthly governments but in God's sovereignty.
A Children's Lesson from the Recipe for a Sweet Life
The children's message uses cake ingredients as a picture of instruction. Some ingredients taste sweet by themselves, while others are bitter, yet all can work together in a recipe. In the same way, children are told that parental guidance can feel pleasant or unpleasant, but loving instruction helps shape a good life that honors God and blesses others.
The Sermon: Receiving Correction Without Fear
The sermon explores Proverbs on rebuke, discipline, and teachability. It contrasts wounded responses to correction with a wiser posture that sees every Christian as a lifelong learner. The preacher names the damage caused when abuse is mislabeled as discipline, while also challenging the opposite tendency to resist apology, accountability, and change.
Three Pathways Toward a Teachable Spirit
The sermon offers three pathways: see yourself first as a learner, seek trustworthy people who can offer wise feedback, and receive God's correction as an expected expression of divine love. Correction is compared to gold when it comes from a wise and loving source. The message closes by grounding human change not in self-improvement or shame but in Jesus, who loves people enough to redeem and transform them.
LIVE Morning Worship Service 07-05-2026
The Way of Wisdom: A Teachable Spirit
About The Service:
We will continue our summer sermon series called The Way of Wisdom. Pastor Manion will be focusing on Proverbs that show us the value of learning and receiving feedback from others. Her sermon is entitled "A Teachable Spirit."
Order of Worship:
https://lagrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-7-5-AM-Order-of-Worship.pdf
About the Church:
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/Giving/lagr107178
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 https://soundcloud.com/lagravecrc
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3yXDFaT
Follow us!
Facebook: / lagravecrc https://www.facebook.com/lagravecrc
Instagram: / lagravecrc https://www.instagram.com/lagravecrc
Website: https://www.lagrave.org
#LaGrave #LaGraveCRC
Learning to Love Correction: Wisdom, Humility, and the Teachable Spirit
Summary
A Service Framed by Wisdom and Grace
The service at LaGrave Avenue Christian Reformed Church opens with worship, welcome, and a reminder that the God who raised Jesus from the dead is present with the congregation. The morning centers on wisdom, correction, humility, and the grace of being restored when one has wandered. The call to confession draws from Matthew 18 and James 5, emphasizing that correction is not meant for shame or exclusion but for reclaiming one another in love.
Confession That Breaks Pride Open
The confession acknowledges the ways people resist wise correction, ignore the community God provides, and cling to pride. The assurance of pardon from Ezekiel 11 promises a new heart and new spirit, replacing hearts of stone with hearts of flesh. The worship language presents repentance not as humiliation but as an opening to God's mercy and transforming work.
Prayer for a Church and Nation in Need of Holiness
The pastoral prayer reflects on creation, sin, national life, and the need for God to purify and remake his people. The congregation prays for those recovering from surgery, those receiving treatment, those in nursing care, and families grieving recent deaths. The prayer also recognizes the nation's anniversary while placing ultimate trust not in earthly governments but in God's sovereignty.
A Children's Lesson from the Recipe for a Sweet Life
The children's message uses cake ingredients as a picture of instruction. Some ingredients taste sweet by themselves, while others are bitter, yet all can work together in a recipe. In the same way, children are told that parental guidance can feel pleasant or unpleasant, but loving instruction helps shape a good life that honors God and blesses others.
The Sermon: Receiving Correction Without Fear
The sermon explores Proverbs on rebuke, discipline, and teachability. It contrasts wounded responses to correction with a wiser posture that sees every Christian as a lifelong learner. The preacher names the damage caused when abuse is mislabeled as discipline, while also challenging the opposite tendency to resist apology, accountability, and change.
Three Pathways Toward a Teachable Spirit
The sermon offers three pathways: see yourself first as a learner, seek trustworthy people who can offer wise feedback, and receive God's correction as an expected expression of divine love. Correction is compared to gold when it comes from a wise and loving source. The message closes by grounding human change not in self-improvement or shame but in Jesus, who loves people enough to redeem and transform them.
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