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This video was sent to me last week. I thought it might encourage others facing hard things where the temptation is to think they are meaningless.

This past Sunday John McLawhorn shared about his family's involvement in the Scott Moonen home group. What he said painted a vivid picture of the benefits of living life with other Christians in this kind of setting. I hope it inspires you to get involved in a group if you're not currently in one, and to get even more involved in your group if you do attend one.

Preparing for the Sanctity of Life Sunday sermon this weekend I read parts of Kevin DeYoung's, What is the Mission of the Church? In the book he tackles the thorny issues surrounding social justice in the complex world in which we live. He has many excellent thoughts to offer in this work relatively brief work, but below is an excerpt I thought particularly rich.

This past Sunday we looked at what it means to call God our "Father." It was a rich study reflecting on God as an eternal Father of Jesus the Son, a Father who is the source of all things (1 Cor. 8:6), and a Father who is over all things (Eph. 4:6). Yet, thinking of God as our "Abba! Father!" (Gal. 4:6) was a special highlight of our time. In one of the great chapters on the subject, J.I. Packer writes about the Fatherhood of God in Knowing God.

If you're fairly new to Sovereign Grace Church you may find a lot of our music unfamiliar. We recently updated our Music and Worship page to include links to many of the Sovereign Grace songs that we use in worship. You can either listen with a free Spotify account, or click through to the Sovereign Grace Music links to download sheet music, guitar charts, lyrics, or mp3s.

Enjoy! 

As we approach a new year, many of you may be considering a fresh start with your Bible reading. I encourage you to take an honest look at your own spiritual disciplines, and to look for fresh ways to know God better through his Word. Remember that in order to worship God in spirit and truth, we need to know God accurately through his Word.

The familiar Christmas passage in Luke 2 ends at verse 20: “And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.” In 1642, John Milton published a poem that takes as its subject the events of the next verse: “And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus.”

My testimony isn't spectacular in that one life altering event happened that altered the course of my life. My testimony hinges on the fact that the God of the universe was faithful throughout my life to put me in just the right place at just the right time that I might be able to encounter him in just the right way.

Christmas is a great chance to revisit the gospel in our personal Bible study and also with our families. There are a lot of ways to do this, but one way is to look at prophecies in the Old Testament that are fulfilled by Jesus. This helps us to see how God's gospel ("good news") came to us in Jesus Christ.

Josh Blount serves as pastor in one of our churches in Franklin, West Virginia....I asked him to contribute to ours, and he sent a few posts that we'll sprinkle in over the next weeks. Here is one where he addresses some of the key elements of a worldview