Grace Bible Fellowship

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons continues with the second part of a six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. In this installment, Bro. Alan shares how the confusion we see in the world around us is not from God, because the Bible clearly tells us He is not the author of confusion (1 Corinthians 14:33). The confusion we see surrounding gender roles, sexuality, marriage, morality, spiritual issues within churches and the lives of believers stem from a common source - Satan. Bro. Alan also discusses the spiritual danger many believers place themselves in by willingly adopting and compromising with the world to be accepted by the world rather than to hold themselves to the standards set by God.
(This message is from October 22nd, 2023)

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons begins a new six-part series looking at the roles of men, women, and marriage as initially planned by God. To do this, Bro. Alan takes us on a journey to the very beginning - to the Garden of Eden and begins with the creation of Adam and Eve and how the social movements of today seek to not only undermine God's plan but to offer one that promotes confusion, hatred towards one another and God and is built upon false assumptions about God's plan. It is about erasing the nuclear family - man and woman - designed to complete and be a help-meet for one another.
(This message is from October 15th, 2023)

In this message, Brother Alan Simmons uses Psalm 13:1-4 to discuss an important issue we have all experienced at some point. We have all become angry with the Lord. Everyone has had the experience of praying for something to happen only to have it seem that the Lord ignored our pleas. And because we still have our old nature to deal with, we get angry with God. In this message, we see how Job, Peter, and David became angry with the Lord and these three men, whom we should model our response to our anger after. 
(This message is from October 8th, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons uses Psalm 103:8-18 to introduce how we are to handle failure. Everyone has experienced failure, whether it's in our profession, our personal relationships, or our walk with the Lord. But what Bro. Alan points out in this message is how our failures can be more important than our successes because we learn a lot more from them. But if we are not careful, our failures can also have some real consequences, especially when they begin impacting the way we see ourselves, our relationship with others, and especially our relationship with the Lord.
(This message is from October 1, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons begins by sharing two passages of scripture, Romans 8:26-28 and 2 Timothy 1:7-9, 12 and discusses how the Lord does not want us to suffer, but wants to give us what we need most - His healing love. He wants us to come to Him with all our physical, emotional, and spiritual wounds much the way a child comes to their parent or grandparent whenever they need comfort and care. The Lord also intended for us, in our pain and anguish, to reach out to others - not only for help, but to help those we can. The Lord also gave us the local body of believers - the church - to help us on our journey towards healing from the pains of life.
(This message is from September 24th, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons continues with the third part of a four-part series called "The traits of a good servant." In this part, we continue to share how a much older David, a man after God's own heart, made a difficult decision where he wanted to change who he allowed in his inner circle of friends. He made a decision that he no longer wanted to be around anyone who did not love the Lord as he did. He even called people who were not as sincere in their relationship with the Lord as he was wicked for trying to convince him to compromise his walk with God. As followers of Christ, David's sentiment in this psalm is how we should measure our friendships and serve as a warning about who we consider our innermost and closest of friends. 
Programming note: Part four will be reconstructed. We had a hardware issue on September 17th which caused us to be unable to record the message as it was delivered. A link will be provided here when it is posted.
(This message is from September 10th, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons continues with the second part of a four-part series called "The traits of a good servant." In this part, we share how a much older David, a man after God's own heart, made a difficult decision to change what he would allow in his life. He made the decision to be more careful with what he allowed in his sight, with what he did both in the presence of others and in the times when he was alone. He wanted everyone who knew him to be able to see the love of the Lord in all that he did. There's a lot we can learn from David's decision to live for the Lord and apply this kind of passion towards our own life so we, too, can be a pleasing servant to Jesus, the one we call Lord.
(This message is from September 3rd, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons follows up the message from last week, "Which servant will His return find you being?" with a follow up message, "The traits of a good servant." Each believer should desire to hear the words, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant" as they enter into Heaven and stand before the throne of the Lord. Using Psalm 101:1-8, Bro. Alan uses this powerful writing of David, a man after God's own heart, on how we can live a life that's pleasing to the Lord. As Bro. Alan points out, David wasn't a perfect man, but he did put his faith in the Lord and was never afraid to repent and trust in the Lord, even when he knew judgment for sin was coming.
We had a technical issue with the audio recording. A portion of it had to be reconstructed.
(This message is from August 27th, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons follows up the message, "What will you be doing?" (from August 13th, 2023) and discusses the two types of servants Jesus identified by Jesus by the end of Matthew 24. There are only two types of servants; each person must ask themselves this simple question: what type of servant am I? - Are you a good servant, doing the will of your Master, and anxiously anticipating your Lord's return? Or are you the slothful, evil servant, seeing your Lord has not yet returned, not believing He will return, picking fights with your fellow servants, and ignoring the things your Master has called you to do? The scriptures make it clear - there's only two types of servants - good and evil. There's nothing in between. You're either one or the other.
(This message is from August 20th, 2023)

In this message, Bro. Alan Simmons discusses the warning given by Jesus in Matthew 24 - what will you be doing when He returns? The Bible gives us a clear picture of what that day will be like when He returns to gather those who have put their faith in Him before the Tribulation begins. The day of His return will be like any other day; you will be doing something. The question is will He find you prepared or will He find you not ready for His return?
(This message is from August 13th, 2023)