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LIVE Morning Worship Service 06-28-2026
The Way of Wisdom
About The Service:
We will continue our summer sermon series called The Way of Wisdom. Pastor Jonker will preach and he will look at various Proverbs that offer us wisdom for how we speak to one another, which is a significant theme in the book.
Order of Worship:
https://lagrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-6-28-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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Life-Giving Words and the Wisdom of the Tongue
The Weight and Wonder of Words
The service centers on the spiritual importance of words, beginning with a children's message that introduces the Bible as God's Word. The pastor explains that Scripture contains words that guide, comfort, strengthen, and reveal God's love through Jesus Christ. A story about a childhood friend in the Netherlands during wartime illustrates how a single line from Psalm 57 brought peace during danger and fear.
A Wisdom Series Turns Toward Speech
The sermon continues the summer series on wisdom literature, focusing on selected passages from Proverbs. The pastor explains that while Proverbs addresses many areas of life, one of its largest and most striking concerns is speech. The sermon organizes the selected proverbs around three themes: the power of words, the character of words, and the heart behind words.
Words Can Wound, Heal, and Create
The first major sermon theme is the power of speech. The pastor contrasts the familiar phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones” with the biblical claim that the tongue has the power of life and death. Through personal reflection and examples of both hurtful and loving words, the sermon emphasizes that speech can wound deeply, heal relationships, encourage faith, and help people flourish.
Gentleness Against the Culture of Outrage
The sermon then turns to the character of speech, especially gentleness, kindness, timing, and restraint. The pastor contrasts Proverbs' wisdom with the way social media often rewards outrage, alarm, accusation, and harshness. He argues that biblical wisdom calls people not only to speak truth but to consider the tone, tempo, and timing of how that truth is spoken.
Timely Words in Human Relationships
The pastor applies the wisdom of timely speech to friendships, marriages, families, and conflict. Using the example of a conflict-averse person and a person who wants to fix problems immediately, he explains that wise speech pays attention to the needs of the other person. The sermon emphasizes that there are times to speak and times to wait, and that words can be truthful but still unwise if spoken at the wrong time.
Speech Rooted in the Heart and in Christ
The final theme is that wise speech comes from the heart. Drawing from Proverbs and Jesus' teaching that the mouth speaks from the heart, the pastor says that anger, bitterness, fear, gentleness, patience, and love eventually reveal themselves in words. The sermon closes by calling listeners to be rooted in Jesus Christ, the Word of life, so that their speech may become life-giving, joyful, faithful, and loving.
LIVE Morning Worship Service 06-28-2026
The Way of Wisdom
About The Service:
We will continue our summer sermon series called The Way of Wisdom. Pastor Jonker will preach and he will look at various Proverbs that offer us wisdom for how we speak to one another, which is a significant theme in the book.
Order of Worship:
https://lagrave.org/wp-content/uploads/2026-6-28-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
Life-Giving Words and the Wisdom of the Tongue
The Weight and Wonder of Words
The service centers on the spiritual importance of words, beginning with a children's message that introduces the Bible as God's Word. The pastor explains that Scripture contains words that guide, comfort, strengthen, and reveal God's love through Jesus Christ. A story about a childhood friend in the Netherlands during wartime illustrates how a single line from Psalm 57 brought peace during danger and fear.
A Wisdom Series Turns Toward Speech
The sermon continues the summer series on wisdom literature, focusing on selected passages from Proverbs. The pastor explains that while Proverbs addresses many areas of life, one of its largest and most striking concerns is speech. The sermon organizes the selected proverbs around three themes: the power of words, the character of words, and the heart behind words.
Words Can Wound, Heal, and Create
The first major sermon theme is the power of speech. The pastor contrasts the familiar phrase “sticks and stones may break my bones” with the biblical claim that the tongue has the power of life and death. Through personal reflection and examples of both hurtful and loving words, the sermon emphasizes that speech can wound deeply, heal relationships, encourage faith, and help people flourish.
Gentleness Against the Culture of Outrage
The sermon then turns to the character of speech, especially gentleness, kindness, timing, and restraint. The pastor contrasts Proverbs' wisdom with the way social media often rewards outrage, alarm, accusation, and harshness. He argues that biblical wisdom calls people not only to speak truth but to consider the tone, tempo, and timing of how that truth is spoken.
Timely Words in Human Relationships
The pastor applies the wisdom of timely speech to friendships, marriages, families, and conflict. Using the example of a conflict-averse person and a person who wants to fix problems immediately, he explains that wise speech pays attention to the needs of the other person. The sermon emphasizes that there are times to speak and times to wait, and that words can be truthful but still unwise if spoken at the wrong time.
Speech Rooted in the Heart and in Christ
The final theme is that wise speech comes from the heart. Drawing from Proverbs and Jesus' teaching that the mouth speaks from the heart, the pastor says that anger, bitterness, fear, gentleness, patience, and love eventually reveal themselves in words. The sermon closes by calling listeners to be rooted in Jesus Christ, the Word of life, so that their speech may become life-giving, joyful, faithful, and loving.
The Metaphysical Hour with Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan and Question Master Tiffanny
Trust the Signal: Intuition, Disclosure, ET Contact, and the Frequency Match of Reality
Shining the Grid and Opening the Conversation
In this episode of The Metaphysical Hour, hosts Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan, with question moderator Tiffany, welcome listeners from around the world and invite them to “shine their light” on their part of the planetary grid. Julia expands on the image of individual lights connecting upward, outward, around the Earth, and beyond, using it as a reminder that people are greater and more powerful than they often remember. The conversation then moves into intuition, psychic development, the film Disclosure Day, ET contact, frequency matching, physical symptoms, and the way personal challenges can become spiritual lessons.
Psychic Intuition as a Natural Ability
Tracie opens a major discussion about intuition by remembering earlier days when Julia resisted doing psychic readings, even though she consistently received accurate information. Both hosts reflect on how people often assume psychic ability requires a near-death experience, head injury, or dramatic awakening, when in their view these abilities are actually natural. Tracie describes her own psychic hotline experience as an intense “bootcamp” that trained her to trust the very first thought that came in, while Julia emphasizes that people should not compare how they receive information to how someone else receives it.
Trusting the First Thought and Letting Beliefs Evolve
Julia and Tracie explain that intuitive information often arrives through the creative side of the mind, while the conscious or analytical mind can interrupt by asking whether the message is real or made up. They encourage listeners to relax the conscious mind, play with the information, and trust the flow rather than forcing it. They also discuss how spiritual beliefs evolve over time, saying that what feels true today may change as more information, experience, and expansion arrive. For them, truth is often incremental, with each step preparing a person for the next level of understanding.
Disclosure Day, Subliminal Seeds, and Emotional Awakening
A listener asks whether Dolores Cannon has seen Disclosure Day, and Julia says she has. The hosts discuss the movie without giving major spoilers, saying they felt it contained hidden messages, planted seeds, and more layers than viewers may consciously realize. Tracie describes having an unexpectedly deep emotional reaction near the end of the film, feeling waves of emotion that surprised her because the subject matter was already familiar to her. Julia and Tracie agree that the film may be opening a door rather than offering the full story, and that more is likely to come.
ETs, Hybrids, and Matching Their Frequency
Another listener asks whether ETs will show themselves to everyone or only to people with higher vibration. Julia and Tracie answer that, in their view, both are true. They say some beings, including Pleiadians and hybrids, are already here and may look human, while other forms of contact will become more visible as people match the appropriate frequency. Julia explains this through the idea that realities and beings can exist side by side but remain unseen until their frequencies harmonize. Tracie adds that physical contact requires the frequency gap to narrow so that both humans and benevolent beings can safely meet.
Creation, Life Plans, and Why Souls Do Not Leave Early
The conversation expands into manifestation, soul planning, and why difficult life events happen. Julia and Tracie explain that people create every part of their experience, including things they may not consciously want, and that this understanding can be upsetting at first but eventually becomes empowering. They discuss children with illness, early death, suicide attempts, and accidents from the perspective that souls have agreements, lessons, and timing beyond what the human mind can see. According to the hosts, no one leaves even one second before their appointed time, and every experience may be connected to healing beyond the visible story.
Body Messages, Burning Feet, and Learning From the Situation
In the final question, a listener asks about burning and tingling sensations in the feet at night. Julia and Tracie interpret feet as connected to movement, direction, and life path, suggesting that the symptoms may point to stagnant energy, a needed change, or something the listener is ready to move toward. They encourage the listener to ask the body and higher self what the sensation is trying to communicate, what needs to be known, and what action may be needed. The episode closes with the hosts reminding listeners that challenges are not only situations to escape, but opportunities to ask, “What am I learning from this?” before sharing information about QHHT sessions, practitioner training, retreats, and Soul Speak resources.
Trust the Signal: Intuition, Disclosure, ET Contact, and the Frequency Match of Reality
Shining the Grid and Opening the Conversation
In this episode of The Metaphysical Hour, hosts Julia Cannon and Tracie Mahan, with question moderator Tiffany, welcome listeners from around the world and invite them to “shine their light” on their part of the planetary grid. Julia expands on the image of individual lights connecting upward, outward, around the Earth, and beyond, using it as a reminder that people are greater and more powerful than they often remember. The conversation then moves into intuition, psychic development, the film Disclosure Day, ET contact, frequency matching, physical symptoms, and the way personal challenges can become spiritual lessons.
Psychic Intuition as a Natural Ability
Tracie opens a major discussion about intuition by remembering earlier days when Julia resisted doing psychic readings, even though she consistently received accurate information. Both hosts reflect on how people often assume psychic ability requires a near-death experience, head injury, or dramatic awakening, when in their view these abilities are actually natural. Tracie describes her own psychic hotline experience as an intense “bootcamp” that trained her to trust the very first thought that came in, while Julia emphasizes that people should not compare how they receive information to how someone else receives it.
Trusting the First Thought and Letting Beliefs Evolve
Julia and Tracie explain that intuitive information often arrives through the creative side of the mind, while the conscious or analytical mind can interrupt by asking whether the message is real or made up. They encourage listeners to relax the conscious mind, play with the information, and trust the flow rather than forcing it. They also discuss how spiritual beliefs evolve over time, saying that what feels true today may change as more information, experience, and expansion arrive. For them, truth is often incremental, with each step preparing a person for the next level of understanding.
Disclosure Day, Subliminal Seeds, and Emotional Awakening
A listener asks whether Dolores Cannon has seen Disclosure Day, and Julia says she has. The hosts discuss the movie without giving major spoilers, saying they felt it contained hidden messages, planted seeds, and more layers than viewers may consciously realize. Tracie describes having an unexpectedly deep emotional reaction near the end of the film, feeling waves of emotion that surprised her because the subject matter was already familiar to her. Julia and Tracie agree that the film may be opening a door rather than offering the full story, and that more is likely to come.
ETs, Hybrids, and Matching Their Frequency
Another listener asks whether ETs will show themselves to everyone or only to people with higher vibration. Julia and Tracie answer that, in their view, both are true. They say some beings, including Pleiadians and hybrids, are already here and may look human, while other forms of contact will become more visible as people match the appropriate frequency. Julia explains this through the idea that realities and beings can exist side by side but remain unseen until their frequencies harmonize. Tracie adds that physical contact requires the frequency gap to narrow so that both humans and benevolent beings can safely meet.
Creation, Life Plans, and Why Souls Do Not Leave Early
The conversation expands into manifestation, soul planning, and why difficult life events happen. Julia and Tracie explain that people create every part of their experience, including things they may not consciously want, and that this understanding can be upsetting at first but eventually becomes empowering. They discuss children with illness, early death, suicide attempts, and accidents from the perspective that souls have agreements, lessons, and timing beyond what the human mind can see. According to the hosts, no one leaves even one second before their appointed time, and every experience may be connected to healing beyond the visible story.
Body Messages, Burning Feet, and Learning From the Situation
In the final question, a listener asks about burning and tingling sensations in the feet at night. Julia and Tracie interpret feet as connected to movement, direction, and life path, suggesting that the symptoms may point to stagnant energy, a needed change, or something the listener is ready to move toward. They encourage the listener to ask the body and higher self what the sensation is trying to communicate, what needs to be known, and what action may be needed. The episode closes with the hosts reminding listeners that challenges are not only situations to escape, but opportunities to ask, “What am I learning from this?” before sharing information about QHHT sessions, practitioner training, retreats, and Soul Speak resources.
