Archives for August 2018

This post is based on Steve Whitacre's sermon,The Story Within The Story Within The Story,given on August 26, 2018.Do you ever think there can't be any great work for you to do because you're just too ordinary? Well, if you're a Christian, nothing could be farther from the truth! All work for God is important and we have no idea just how much our acts of obedience can play...

A few weeks ago, we had the privilege of hearing a testimony from Vanessa Aho about her experience with One2One, our women's discipleship program! God has been so faithful to bless this ministry and bring about much fruit. Vanessa Aho Testimony from SGCLouisville on Vimeo....

"In short, 'fearing God' is commonly in Scripture a virtual abbreviation for 'believing in God, and therefore fearing the consequence of not pleasing him, thus being a person of moral conviction and righteous actions."Douglas Stuart "Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because the...

This post is based on C.J. Mahaney's sermon,The Best and Worst of Times,given on August 19, 2018. This pastSunday, we saw how life changed dramatically for God's people in Egypt. At one point, Joseph was Pharaoh's right-hand-man and God's people were given gifts as they moved to Egypt to the start of this story. 400 years later, they were enslaved and worked almost to the...

This post is based on C.J. Mahaney's sermon, The Adventure Begins,given on August 12, 2018. This pastSunday, CJ introduced us to the "most powerful adventure story of all time", the book of Exodus. This divinely inspired book is an "epic tale of fire, sand, wind, and water" that "once heardis never forgotten". As CJ taught, every masterful scene of this Old Testament go...

"To a modern reader such an opening might not seem consistent with high literary style. It was, however, not only good style but entirely welcome in the ancient setting, where a group of refugees of mixed ethnic origin, many of whom were young enough to be learning their national traditions for the first time, were being reminded of God's plan through a people descended fr...

"Exodus is an epic tale of fire, sand, wind and water. The adventure takes place under the hot desert sun, just beyond the shadow of the Great Pyramids. There are two mighty nations-Israel and Egypt-led by two great men-Moses the liberating hero and Pharaoh the enslaving villain. Almost every scene is a masterpiece: the baby in the basket; the burning bush; the river of bl...

"He takes a part of it and warms himself; he kindles a fire and bakes bread. Also he makes a god and worships it; he makes it an idol and falls down before it." Is. 44:15 "All may worship him, but the motivation is as important as the manner. Yahweh expects reverence, submission, holiness, and awe of his divine majesty and presence." William VanGemeren "The Lord's enthro...

This post is based on C.J. Mahaney's sermon, The Test of Prosperity, given on July 29, 2018. King David knew prosperity. He had a powerful military, an honorable reputation, and tremendous wealth. Unfortunately, these rich blessings became a cause for turning David's heart away from the Lord. God mercifully brought David out of this dreadful state of pride, but not with...

"Who can look to have a greater stock of inherent grace than those men had; to have more experience of God and the excellency of his ways, the sweetness of his love and communion with him, than they had?" John Owen "all of them fell out when they had newly received great and stupendous mercies from the hand of God, that ought to have been strong obligations unto diligence...