Pastor’s Weekly Update

“…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…