God’s Grace Cannot Be Bought; It’s Free

Excerpts from sermons to be delivered around Orange County this week:

GOD’S GRACE: “While there are Christians who go around singing ‘Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,’ there are still those, like Simon (Acts 8:18), who go around asking ‘Amazing grace . . . how much is it?’ But God’s grace cannot be bought, borrowed or bartered for; it is free.”

--Dr. Joseph LoMusio, speaking at 10:45 a.m. services Sunday at Temple Baptist Church, 1601 W. Malvern Ave., Fullerton. (714) 526-3262.

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PLACE OF CHAOS: “This week we entered the Wilderness, the Wilderness of Lent. . . . Those of you who have seen the sun-blasted desolation of the

Judean Wilderness know it is a very real, very formidable wilderness indeed. But the wilderness also has a long history as metaphor. The Wilderness was, and is, a place of chaos, a place that by definition was not Godly.”

--The Rev. Edward C. Martin, speaking at 8:30 and 10:15 a.m. services Sunday at Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church, 26001 Muirlands Blvd., Mission Viejo. (949) 837-2941.

The Message highlights excerpts from sermons to be delivered in Orange County in the coming week. Submissions should be delivered by noon each Thursday to Orange County religion editor Jack Robinson.