Pastor’s Weekly Update

“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…