Grace Sagola Church

There's a perception that the only place where injustice exists is in society at large, and we can easily forget that without care, it can creep into the church as well.  However, it is rarely a quick onset.  Unforeseen injustice is often a slow series of errors that reek of the hallmark from our enemy's strategy. 

Although we know God to be righteous and perfect and that there is no one greater than Him, we don't exactly live like we believe that is true.  If we really believed it, might we not order our lives around God differently?

The stories for Mary and Joseph would change forever with the announcement from the angels. Their response to God's interruption should serve as a model for how we respond when God changes our plans as well.

The magic of Christmas is regularly celebrated with family and friends and all the reminders of God's love shown to us in the giving of his Son.  However, the real wonder of God's gift is only ever truly appreciated when we're reminded that God sent His Son while we were still in darkness still in rebellion and basically not even looking for God's Messiah.  The greatest wonder is that He still off...

Jesus as the Messiah is a treasure worth searching for.  The story of Jesus’ 1st Jerusalem visit is met with a prophetic pronouncement of God’s sovereign provision for a light to the Gentiles.  This One prophesied as a branch from Jesse will be a banner for all peoples. 

The contrast between the kings from the East and king Herod couldn't be more drastic.  We will see that it is their perspective on power and authority that will determine how they respond to the birth of the King of kings. 

"your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."

The Apostle Paul in closing his first letter to the Thessalonians reveals God’s will for us in adopting an attitude of Christlike thanksgiving. Today we’ll discover how our thankfulness should continue to point us and others to Jesus.

“Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence – continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose”

God has called his followers to pattern their lives after His desires and will.  This obedience onto holiness is most easily seen in how we treat ourselves and each other when it comes to sexual purity.  And it begins by knowing God.

Our world has us trained to think God's will is only and always for our happiness.  But discerning God's will is contingent on our willingness to lay down our lives, rights, and pursuits and replace them with Jesus.  Only then will God's will become clear. 

One of the realities that we don't often think of with missions is God's mission from the perspective of its ever increasingly conclusion.  Jesus promised to return, and His delay is not without warrant.  God's is presently exercising His patience with us. 

When we think of worship, do we consider it an essential part of our lives?  Has our Christian culture taught us that worship is only something that happens when we sing, or at church?  In order to fully know God's will, we must understand that worship is something we do with our entire life. 

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Wisdom is quite undervalued in our world today.  There was a time when experience was a driving motivator for wisdom, but in today's world people seek new experiences simply for the thrills.  The book of Ecclesiastes is filled with wisdom, the question is, are we seeking after it?

It is a difficult thing to go through life by only relying on your own abilities.  Too often we deceive ourselves into thinking that we can make it on our own.  However, the very best thing we can do is learn to lean on Jesus and allow Him to measure-out our successes and accomplishments.  

What is it that you are leaving behind; what will be your legacy? For many, there is a vain striving with inheritances that ultimately leaves our children with just more stuff - and we can rarely transfer the work and effort that it took to amass such possessions.  What if there was something else we could invest in? 

The allure of riches to bring purpose, fulfillment and satisfaction is ultimately vacuous.  Earthly riches never deliver what they promise.  But why do we keep striving after them? 

The effort that man gives in pursuit of his own pleasures is a never-ending black hole of frustration that cannot ultimately satisfy.  The only source of true satisfaction is found by submitting your desires onto the Lord and allowing Him to reframe and remake your desires according to His will.  Ultimate satisfaction is found only in Jesus. 

A world without God, is a world without justice.  Every evil deed will have been left unpunished and for untold many, justice will never be served.

The world we live in is primed for human achievement and a never-ending barrage of opportunity for the glory of man.  For those who don't believe in God, they have had to redefine their purpose on earth, but yet can only live for today with no hope for tomorrow.  The endless need for success will leave them without rest and a denial the vain reality of human striving. For the Christian, our work o...

In the Word of God the book of Ecclesiastics evaluates all modern expressions of humanistic philosophy. It is impressive that there is truly nothing "new" under the sun. Of all human questions the greatest remains, “What happens after death?”

"Chasing after the wind" is an expression to describe the fruitless results of striving in vain and working towards that which ultimately never satisfies.  The story inside the book of Ecclesiastics is one which examines the question, "what would it be like to live and define ourselves without God?"

The kindness of an invitation is God's way of drawing us towards Himself.  We are offered the most gracious of invitations as we reach the very end of the Bible, with Jesus final words for the churches.  This final petition will serve as a model for how we too can best present the gospel by sharing what has first been offered to us as an invitation. 

The story of the Bible centers around the person of Jesus Christ as God's solution for the sins of mankind.  He is in every respect the one who has rescued us from the mess we've made.