From your Pastors

This post is based on Brian Chesemore's sermon, Truly God Is Good,given on June 17, 2018. We had a great opportunity on Sunday to hear Pastor Brian teach us from Psalm 73 about an all-too-common temptation we face the temptation to be jealous of the world. We saw on Sunday Asaph's struggle with looking at all the apparent fun and easiness of life from the world (everyo...

This post is based on C.J. Mahahey's sermon, Hope Realized,given on June 10, 2018. Over the last 5 weeks, Pastor CJ has been faithfully teaching us through the book of Ruth and we have observed God's hidden hand at work in the lives of each character in the book. Pastor CJ was keen to remind us that the book of Ruth is meant to convince us of God's kindness. He taught u...

Two weeks ago was a bittersweet gathering for Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville as we said goodbye to the 2018 Sovereign Grace Pastors College students. These 10 men have become a part of our church family over the past 10 months and although we are excited excited to see how the Lord will use them for His glory, we are also saddened that they will be leaving Louisville...

"Those who give themselves away outside marriage forfeit a depth of pleasure that only those know who wait for the Lord." John Piper "This is the narrator's modest way of identifying a miracle; she who had been unable to bear a child for Mahlon has conceived for Boaz." Daniel Block "At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a stra...

"The fact that sovereignty works secretly and hiddenly adds to its interest and mystique and should also be comforting to us." Dale Ralph Davis "The irony is that by seeking to protect his future legacy in this way, [he] ended up leaving himself nameless, missing out on having a share in the biggest legacy of all; a place in God's plan of salvation." Iain Duguid "If anyo...

This post is based on C.J. Mahahey's sermon, Hope Deferred,given on May 27, 2018. Over the past few 2 weeks we've been tracing the hidden hand of God in the story of Ruth. This week our story takes a suspenseful turn as Ruth and Naomi execute a plan to get Boaz's attention and hopefully his proposal. Let's read Ruth 3 together, keeping our eyes peeled for both God's hid...

"Place of rest speaks of the security and tranquility that a woman in Israel longed for and expected to find in the home of a loving husband." Daniel Block "The idiom she used may be puzzling to the modern reader, but there was no question about its meaning in the Israelite context in which it was given." Daniel Block "While the narrator lets our ears hear Naomi complain...

"It's purpose [is] to undermine purely rational explanations for human experiences and to refine the readers understanding of providence. In reality he is screaming, 'See the hand of God at work here!' The same hand that had sent the famine (1:1) and later provided food (1:6) is the hand that had brought Naomi and Ruth to Bethlehem precisely at the beginning of the harvest...

A few weeks ago, we joyfully welcomed 30 new members into Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville! Three of those members gave testimonies of God's amazing work in saving them and bringing them to our church. God's faithfulness was once again on brilliant display in the lives of His people. Bendo Membership Testimony from SGCLouisville on Vimeo. Membership Testimony...

This post is based on C.J. Mahahey's sermon, Dark Days,given on May 13, 2018. This past Sunday, we heard Pastor CJ open God's Word to us from the Book of Ruth. In this "most beautiful short story ever written," we see God's hand of grace in the midst of judgement, grief, and suffering. One of the ways that this book is a gift to us is that for all who are familiar with ...