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“Grace is glory begun, as glory is grace consummated.”—Francis Turretin Life in a fallen world is often myopic — meaning we see things up close very clearly, but anything far away is quite blurry. In our day to day lives…

“No one gives grace better than the person who is deeply persuaded that he needs it himself. Self-righteous people tend to be critical, dismissive, and impatient with others.” —Paul Tripp You can probably picture someone who you think is beyond…

“The law orders; grace supplies the power of acting.”—Augustine Announcements —Chili and Game Night You are cordially invited to a chili and game night hosted by Mercy Church at South Middle School on Sunday, March 23 at 5PM. Please bring a…

“God’s guidance will require patience on our part. His leading is not usually a direct assurance, a revelation, but His sovereign controlling of the circumstances of our lives, with the Word of God as our rule. It is therefore, inevitable…

“We would very soon become contemptuous of a god whom we could figure out like a puzzle or learn to use like a tool.” —Eugene Peterson All, You have been troopers to say the least. For the past year we…

“We do have a responsibility to make wise decisions or to discover the will of God, whichever term we may prefer to use. But God’s plan for us is not contingent upon our decisions. God’s plan is not contingent at…

“Christ’s atoning work does not change God’s wrath to love, for God’s love is itself the source of the atonement.” —George Eldon Ladd January 2, 2025 As it was announced, and as you can see from the property update on our website,…

“Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man — His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God — when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.” —Rod Rogers  December…

“The amount of your giving may not be large in comparison to someone else’s gift, but if your heart is generous, and your gift is sacrificial, God is pleased.” —Rod Rogers  December 12, 2024 In Acts 20 the apostle Paul…

“Missions is not so much going somewhere as it is in following Someone.”—Tim Keesee December 7, 2024 Everybody has a mission. The real question then is how intentional is your mission, and where is your mission going to take you? Our culture…

“We don’t come to church, to be a church. We come to Christ, and then we are built up as a church. If we come to church just to be with one another, one another is all we’ll get. And…

“Everyone united with Christ by faith is also united with everyone else united with Christ. The same Holy Spirit indwells all believers and gives each a common share in the body of Christ, the church. As the apostle Paul put…

“Of course we do not get a different or better Christ in the sacraments than we do in the Word. But we may get the same Christ better, with a firmer grasp of his grace through seeing, touching, feeling, and tasting…

“Of course we do not get a different or better Christ in the sacraments than we do in the Word. But we may get the same Christ better, with a firmer grasp of his grace through seeing, touching, feeling, and tasting…

“The doctrines of grace humble a man without degrading him and exalt a man without inflating him.” —Charles Hodge October 25, 2024 We are continuing to prayerfully and logistically move forward with the prospective property. As mentioned last week we need to…

“If Christians do not rejoice it is not because they are Christians, but because they are not Christian enough. Joy is the rational state of the Christian in view of his spiritual position in Christ.” —Alistair Begg  October 18, 2024 Below…

“The marvel of marvels is not that God, in His infinite love, has not elected all this guilty race to be saved, but that He has elected any.” —B.B. Warfield  October 11, 2024 “The ‘gift’ or ‘baptism’ of the Spirit, one…

“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.” —Henry Ward Beecher October 4, 2024 “It is true that if these Hobbits understood the danger, they would not dare to go. But they…

“The joy of pardon has a voice louder than the voice of sin. God’s voice speaking peace is the sweetest music an ear can hear.” —Charles Spurgeon September 28, 2024 “He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me.…

“Behavior modification that’s not empowered by God’s heart-changing grace is self-righteousness, as repugnant to God as the worst sins people gossip about.” —Randy Alcorn September 20, 2024 “A Christian finds satisfaction in every circumstance by get­ting strength from another, by going…

“Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.” —Paul Tripp September 12, 2024 There’s been much thinking, praying, planning, considering, and discussion about a potential new church property for our congregation. I…

“Autonomous Christianity never works, because our spiritual life was designed by God to be a community project.” —Paul Tripp September 6, 2024 We are continuing to prayerfully and humbly move forward with potentially purchasing a building — and to that end…

“The promises of the Bible are nothing more than God’s covenant to be faithful to His people. It is His character that makes these promises valid.” —Jerry Bridges August 29, 2024 “The historical manifestations of the covenant of redemption can…

“He became what we are that He might make us what He is.”  —Athanasius August 16, 2024 “At a time when offenses abound, we should take great care to nurture peace — namely, public church peace, or unity in the…

“Quarry me deep, dear Lord,  and then fill me to overflowing    with living water.”  — “The Deeps” from The Valley of Vision Prayers  August 8, 2024 Here’s a hot take: I am generally very pro reading. We should all do it, and we…

“…for when our sins come to our remembrance, they drive us from the presence of God and make us that we dare not pray. Now the remedy is this. We must come clothed with Christ into the presence of God.…

“It takes effort to be habitually weaned from the visible.” —Wilhelmus à Brakel July 26, 2024 Mercy Church, On Sunday we are going to have a congregational meeting to elect 3 deacons and 5 trustees. All communing members of our…

“The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay upon the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to Him is not to believe that He loves you.” —John Owen July 19, 2024 The book of Joshua tells the story of…

“The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved by it — moved…

“The gospel tells us that our belovedness will never change according to our wanderings. But our belovedness is intended to change our wanderings.” —Jay Stringer June 28, 2024 2 Corinthians is a letter that deals with difficulty and suffering. The…

“There is no righteousness that makes us right with God except for the righteousness of Christ. But for those who have been made right with God by grace alone through faith alone and therefore have been adopted into God’s family,…

“We must make a great difference between God’s Word and the word of man. A man’s word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth,…

“To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.” —John Calvin May 31, 2024 Ever since Genesis 3 and the fall of man, humanity has been on a perpetual search for wisdom. Life in a…

“We must understand how to separate our “who” from our “do.” What we do does not gain us God’s affection. Who we are by virtue of His unconditional love constrains us through the power of our gratitude to obey Him.”—Bryan…

“This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.”—Jerry…