Here are recent photos from the Sovereign Grace Church in Cherry Hill building project. Let’s join our brothers and sisters in praying that God would cause this project to finish up quickly!
The church’s “Grand Opening Blog” says – “We’re hoping to have our Grand Opening Sunday in June…”
Its wonderful to see how God has blessed our sister church with a new facility. As many of you know, the Senior Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church in Cherry Hill NJ is Warren Boettcher, who also helps to care for our church on behalf of Sovereign Grace Ministries. As you can see from these photos, the project is nearing completion!
Just this past Sunday we talked about the importance of being “world Christians” – Christians with a passion for the world-wide advance of the Gospel. Pretty cool to see our family of churches now is now connected to a congregation in South Korea….let’s pray for them.
On Friday and Saturday, a group from Sovereign Grace Church attended a Sovereign Grace Ministries regional conference designed to serve small group and other ministry leaders.
Here are the messages:
Dave Harvey - The Gospel the Slave & MeHey guys,
Check out the post “Hard Thoughts About God In Parenting” where C.J. Mahaney gives practical advice for how we can reflect the love of God to our children.
Here’s Tony Reinke’s introduction:
In his recent sermons on Jude, C.J. spoke about the tendency of Christians to have an inaccurate view of God the Father and to have “hard thoughts about God.”
In the first message C.J. said, “I have interacted with many Christians over the years who are not certain of God’s love for them. They can be reluctant to admit it, but they aren’t convinced in their heart and mind that God loves them. In light of their sin and the holiness of God they wonder whether God does indeed love them.”
After the message C.J. received an email from a father who fears that he is unintentionally introducing to his children these hard thoughts about God. He wants to know what to do to model the grace and love of God to his children. Here is the email exchange between C.J. and John (not his real name).
Click here to read the email exchange.
In the olden days of Sovereign Grace, a funny phrase would occasionally pop up in our sermons. Do you remember this?
“Don’t hear what I’m not saying.”
The double negatives were so puzzling that it almost passed for profundity. But it was really just a way to appeal for careful listening. Careful listening was vital when confusing young preachers like us were learning our craft—but I’m getting off-message here.
I resurrect the phrase now as we return to the Great Commission and discuss the delicate topic of “apostolic ministry.”
Read the whole thing.
From our family of churches:
In response to the devastating earthquake that occurred in Haiti on Tuesday, Sovereign Grace Ministries has opened a Disaster Relief fund to help deliver food, medicine, and other needed aid there. We will distribute the funds we raise primarily through existing ministry contacts we have on the island—both in Haiti and the Dominican Republic—who are already involved in relief efforts.
If you want to join us in our support of these efforts, you can donate to the Disaster Relief fund online or by calling 800.736.2202.
Regardless of your ability to give toward this cause, please join us in praying that those affected by the earthquake would receive aid quickly, and that despite these hardships the gospel would continue to go forward in that nation.
This Sunday, December 6th, we have the joy of welcoming Dave Harvey to preach. Dave Harvey is responsible for church care, church planting, and international expansion for Sovereign Grace Ministries. He has served as a member of the Sovereign Grace Ministries leadership team since 1995. Dave has been in pastoral ministry at Covenant Fellowship Church (Glen Mills, PA) since 1986, was ordained in 1988, and served as senior pastor from 1990 to 2008. Dave will be bringing a message he’s entitled “Parenting In Weakness,” a message designed to help parents encounter God’s grace in the midst of parenting challenges.
Dave Harvey, who oversees international expansion and church planting for Sovereign Grace Ministries (and is a close friend of our church), posted several days ago a brief history of church-planting in Sovereign Grace. Often visitors to our church will ask me about the history of our family of churches and much of what I tell them is contained in Dave’s post–so I encourage you to check it out here.
This past Sunday we had the opportunity to watch the first two videos in a three part series of videos that comprise this years Sovereign Grace Ministries Mission presentation.
If you missed it, the video below is the second part. Next, Sunday we will watch the third and final video.
