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Valley Christian Church Assembly of God
"To Know Jesus and Make Him Known"
3920 Cherry Street, Grand Forks ND
Sunday Morning Service begins at 10am
Nepali Language Service begins at 12pm
African Languages Service begins at 2:30pm

Current Sermon Series
April 27-May 25


But Satan hindered us...
1 Thessalonians 2:17 Brothers, although we were torn away from you for a short time (in person, not in heart), our desire to see you face...
Chris Dawes
Nov 16, 20242 min read
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November 7, 2024
Acts 16:1 Paul came to Derbe and then to Lystra, where he found a disciple named Timothy, the son of a believing Jewish woman and a Greek...
Chris Dawes
Nov 10, 20246 min read
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November 6, 2024
Acts 17:22 Then Paul stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that in every way you are very religious....
Chris Dawes
Nov 9, 20248 min read
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November 5, 2024
Acts 17:10 As soon as night had fallen, the brothers sent Paul and Silas away to Berea. On arriving there, they went into the Jewish...
Chris Dawes
Nov 3, 20243 min read
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November 4, 2024
This week’s pericope is especially rich. It begins with a copy of the official letter sent from the Church leaders at what became known...
Chris Dawes
Nov 3, 20246 min read
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October 25, 2024
In Acts 14, we see another example of God’s will being determined by the vote of God’s people. 21 They preached the gospel to that city...
Chris Dawes
Oct 28, 20243 min read
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October 24, 2024
Yesterday, our devotional blog post touched briefly on the content of the recorded sermons of the apostles. We saw that they invoked King...
Chris Dawes
Oct 25, 20247 min read
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October 23, 2024
Acts 13:14 And from Perga, they traveled inland to Pisidian Antioch, where they entered the synagogue on the Sabbath and sat down. 15...
Chris Dawes
Oct 24, 20243 min read
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October 22, 2024
In this week’s pericope, we see even more “growing pains” being experienced by the first Christians. They have such sharp disagreements...
Chris Dawes
Oct 22, 20246 min read
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October 21, 2024
There is so much to meditate upon in this week’s pericope. Today, I want to draw your attention to a few of my thoughts on the passage...
Chris Dawes
Oct 21, 20244 min read
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October 17 and 18, 2024
This is definitely amazing to me, even if no one else is impressed. So...as AI develops faster than any of us are comfortable with, I...
Chris Dawes
Oct 17, 20241 min read
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October 16, 2024
In this week’s pericope (google it), we read about James, the brother of John being executed. How devastating this must have been to the...
Chris Dawes
Oct 15, 20243 min read
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October 15, 2024
This is cuneiform and it is the oldest method of written language. But for our modern eyes, it looks like nonsense, this one has a...
Chris Dawes
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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October 14, 2024
L.R. Ooten, one of the early leaders in the Pentecostal movement is said to have penned this chorus: “To be like Jesus To be like Jesus...
Chris Dawes
Oct 13, 20243 min read
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October 11, 2024
1 The apostles and brothers throughout Judea soon heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. 2 So when Peter went up to...
Chris Dawes
Oct 10, 20245 min read
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October 10, 2024
Acts 10:44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard his message. 45 All the circumcised...
Chris Dawes
Oct 9, 20244 min read
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October 9, 2024
This past Sunday, we talked about the mysterious vision given to the Apostle Peter in Acts 10. 11 He saw heaven open and something like...
Chris Dawes
Oct 8, 20246 min read
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October 8, 2024
Shakespeare describes the deadly family feud that prevents Romeo and Juliet from openly celebrating their love for each other. Their two...
Chris Dawes
Oct 7, 20247 min read
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October 7, 2024
9-11 was just another day in September for 37 years of my life, until Jihadi terrorists flew hijacked passenger planes into the World...
Chris Dawes
Oct 6, 20247 min read
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October 4, 2024
The account of Saul’s conversion that we read this week in Acts 9 is so inspiring, but thankfully, later on, Paul repeats the story, but...
Chris Dawes
Oct 3, 20245 min read
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