From your Pastors

As we all know, the growing number of confirmed COVID-19 cases throughout the world is putting significant demand on the healthcare professionals caring for the sick. We are grateful for these men and women who are working on the front lines to serve those most in need. Mark Prater, the director of Sovereign Grace Churches, has invited all of us to join together tomorrow (...

Join us for session 3 of our virutal Sunday Class! This week, Andrew Maples teaches us on the topic of developing a heart for evangelism. You can find the outline for this class here and all previous classes and outlines here! ...

Four Prayers for Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving and Supplication: Praise our sovereign God and King who is worthy of our worship and honor (Job 1:20-21). Confess our frailty and sin, and recognize our need for Christ our mediator to bridge the gap to our God (1 Timothy 2:5). In keeping with CJ's sermon on Habakkuk, thank God that our greatest joy is fo...

"This book was born on a cold, drizzly, late spring day when I clambered over the split rail cedar fence that surrounds my pasture and made my way through wet woods to the modest frame house where Joe Rantz lay dying....I knew only two things about Joe when I knocked on his daughter Judy's door that day. I knew that in his mid-seventies he had single handedly hauled a numb...

This week during our livestream, Jeff encouraged us from Isaiah 26:3-4. Listen again and be encouraged by "the bedrock claim that God is a rockunmovable, unchanging, undaunted in His zeal to accomplish all His purposes." ...

Overview of Sermon: This passage begins by showing Jesus' kindness and intention to never mislead the twelve regarding his true messianic mission, and so hurried them into the boat. While Jesus stayed behind to dismiss the crowd and spend time in prayer, the disciples hit a great headwind while rowing to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. As the gale began to cause the...

Yesterday Desiring God posted an article by our dear pastors wife, Carolyn Mahaney. The post was titled "Tears May Tarry for Now: Trusting God in Times to Weep". In the midst of these unexpected times of trial, we trust that this article will encourage you to look to Christ. As Carolyn says, "When we turn to God in our tears, times of weeping will also become our times of ...

Dear Church Family, Many of you have asked how we might serve our community in this very trying pandemic. Such requests deeply encourage your pastors, as they reveal how the gospel has turned you outward in care for others. God has preserved a timely command at the end of Paul's letter to Titus, to guide us in the midst of our present circumstances. "And let our people l...

As we persevere by faith through this pandemic, let's be strengthened today by the promise of our Lord, "I will build my church." No uncertainty, or calamity or quarantine can call this into question. Sovereign Grace, our family and denomination of churches, exists to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ by planting and strengthening churches throughout the world for the ...

As we adjust to life in the new normal under coronavirus restrictions, we're all cataloging the temporarily suspended activities we can't wait to return to. At the top of my list is our Sunday gathering and a big part of that is the opportunity to learn from our Sunday classes. When our Sunday gatherings were suspended, we had only just begun a Sunday class series entitled...