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2017 Choir Camp Registration

Sign Up Now for the 2017 Choir Camp When: July 31 – August 4. Where: Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church. 22646 Benswood Road, California, MD Please download the registration form (PDF), and follow the instructions.  

Advent Candles

Why Lessons & Carols?

Christmas and the Covenant Grace and Peace Presbyterian Church will hold our annual Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols  Christmas Eve, December 24th at 6 pm. The value of Lessons & Carols, in short, is this: Lessons and Carols tangibly reminds us of the unity of Scripture, with the story of Christ and the incarnation of our Lord at its…

Community Hymn Sing, Oct. 28

Do you like to sing great Hymns of the Christian Faith? Grace and Peace Presbyterian is hosting a community hymn sing October 28 at 7 PM. We have an excellent Piano and Organ as well as several other instruments to accompany the singing. We welcome singers from any church or no particular church as we…

Good Friday Service

Good Friday Service at Grace & Peace will be at 7:00 PM on the 29th. Friday marks the death of Jesus Christ. It’s called ‘good’ because of what Jesus’ death means for the redemption of the world. Worship will focus on three aims: (1) to narrate and remember the events of Jesus’ death, (2) to…

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

Please join us of for our Christmas Eve Festival of Lessons and Carols, December 24 with Prelude beginning at 6:30PM and the Lessons and Carols at 7PM. The readings and songs of this service begin with the fall of Adam’s race in the Garden of Eden, through the prophetic promises of salvation made to Israel…

Faith Comes from Hearing

Questions from the Westminster Shorter Catechism – on the reading and preaching of God’s Word Q. 89. How is the word made effectual to salvation? A. The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching, of the word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort,…

Lent

The word “Lent” is from middle English- length. It recognizes the lengthening of the days (northern hemisphere) moving toward the yearly remembrance of the ministry of Jesus leading to the cross.  For centuries Christians have used this period to reflect upon the sufferings and ultimately the saving works of God in Jesus Christ through his death…

Epiphany

Epiphany was first observed in second-century Egypt, as both the day of Jesus’ birth and baptism. December 25 wasn’t established as a separate celebration of the nativity until around A.D. 336 and has never been universally celebrated on that day. Today some Eastern churches still observe Christmas on January 6, the day of Epiphany. The…

Advent Candles

Christmas Eve

A Festival of Lessons and Carols The Christmas Eve Service will begin at 6:00 p.m.  The readings and songs of this service begin with the fall of Adam’s race in the Garden of Eden, through the prophetic promises of salvation made to Israel and lead into the gospel announcement of the Savior’s birth: The Ninth…