• Daniel Baker • Posted in Discipleship, Life in the Church, Mission, News, Parenting, Prayer, Pro-life
Here is the 7-day prayer guide we distributed last Sunday as part of Sanctity of Life Sunday. Contact Daniel Baker if you would be willing to (1) help organize or (2) participate in pro-life activities that our church does.
• Daniel Baker • Posted in Parenting
As we mentioned over the last couple weeks, on Sunday night, January 7th, at 6:30pm, we're having a parenting forum at SGC. Three seasoned couples will be our mentors for the night, and we'll ask a variety of questions to draw them out.
• Posted in Advent, Book Reviews, Books, Devotions, Evangelism, Family, Life in the Church, Parenting
by Cassie Sasser
A Resource for Advent
Marty Machowski and Sovereign Grace Music have given us two new resources to help us see the Christ Child and the risen Savior in the Prepare Him Room advent book and the Christmas CD of the same name. I say “to help us”, because isn’t it the case with all thoughtful Christian material for children that we all (both the child and the adult who has the privilege of reading it to him) grow deeper in our understanding of the Savior?
As our own family life began, over 45 years ago, one of…
• Dawn Ruhl • Posted in Family, Parenting, Prayer, Pro-life, Service, Vision
Completing the Ugandan side of Josie’s adoption took just over five weeks. Eli and Esther returned to the U.S. after two weeks, and God taught me so much in the remaining three weeks about what it means for His strength to be made perfect in my weakness; His grace was completely sufficient for me - and for the rest of my family (2 Cor 12:9).
• Posted in Family, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer, Pro-life, Service, Vision
The rest of this story moves so much faster than the beginning, but now that I have the benefit of hindsight, I am clearly able to see God’s hand in the waiting.
• Dawn Ruhl • Posted in Family, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer, Pro-life, Service, Vision
It was absolutely thrilling to have a baby in the house at last, but we knew that God was only just beginning the story of our family, and we were eager to see what else He had in store for us.
• Dawn Ruhl • Posted in Family, Marriage, Parenting, Prayer, Pro-life, Service, Vision
When Eli and I were married in 2003, we already knew that adoption would very likely be part of our story. We started out the same way so many other couples do, desiring a sweet, tiny baby (or several!) to call our own. However, my infertility had been diagnosed many years before, so we knew that God would be writing our story differently.
• Posted in Devotions, Discipleship, Family, Parenting
Josh Blount is a pastor at Living Faith Church in Franklin, WV, one of our sister churches. He wrote an article for the Sovereign Grace blog about Why Martin Luther Would Love Children's Ministry.
• Posted in Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Discipleship, Family, Parenting
Cassie Sasser told me about this letter from Joel Beeke to a 12 year old on his birthday. It's great fatherly counsel from a man of God to a future man of God.
• Posted in Bible, Discipleship, Gospel, Life in the Church, Parenting
This past Saturday Mickey Connolly taught a parenting seminar at SGC on the goal and the how of parenting. His target was parents of children through aged 12 years, but as a father of three grown children his gaze often extended upwards to the adult years.