Grace Sagola Church

One of the great privileges for those who have had their sins washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ, is sharing the joy of the grace of God with others - in a sense “carrying Christ” into the many spheres of our influence. It really is actually quite a shock that God would include us - with all our many flaws - to be used as His vessels to announce the Kingdom of God.

There is no shortage of differences between individuals today. Unfortunately, these differences too often get controlled by our insecurities and selfish desires to morph them from differences to divisions. The great weapon of the evil one is bringing dissension and division to the body of Christ. We are in an all out war on the battlefront of the image of God’s church from both outside influences...

The world we live in today has a negative influence on how we perceive of God and of God’s love. For the career individual promotion only comes with good performance, and much of human acceptance is contingent on what benefit others can derive from your good works. This is not so with God. God offers His unconditional acceptance to us before we have anything to offer to Him. He gives us Jesus, bef...

God’s grace has been revealed in the coming of Jesus Christ. And this appearing of God’s grace serves as a teacher to us. The real question for the Christ follower is are we learning from this arrival of grace and conforming our lives after the one who has purchased us and cleansed us

We tend to recoil whenever anyone gets into our personal life and tells us how to live or act. Thankfully the scriptures don’t hold back when it comes to offering instruction as to how a Christian ought to conduct his/herself. Paul walks Titus through 5 arenas of human categorization and pulls no punches as he instructs him how to teach the church character and conduct that is in accordance with s...

The world has progressively and continually moved away from God’s Word, and in doing so it has desensitizing the secular mind towards that which ought to be morally repugnant.

We live in a world quite similar to the dangers found in the days of the New Testament. With a plurality of perspectives concerning faith and doctrine where can Christians turn to find objective truth? The Apostle Paul writes to his student Titus with instructions towards godliness.

What do we mean when we pray, “in Jesus name?” A quick survey on the subject will reveal that there are a few options as to what people today think praying in Jesus name means. We will evaluate Jesus’ final instructions to His disciples before He departs from them, and we will see that the interpretation for repeated phrase to “ask for anything in my name” is wholly dependent on the context of Joh...

Learning how to pray well is not just a discipline for today, it was also key for the disciples in Jesus’ day. With worldly examples focusing on gaining public attention or teaching a false practice of elaborate lofty word-ridden requests their world wasn’t much different than ours today.

The movie industry makes good sport out of the common anxiety found in public prayer, but if we were honest, we might confess that they’ve really tapped into a root of realistic fears that plague many modern Christians. “I love God, I pray to Him everyday, but please don’t call on me to pray!”

One of the most difficult things to endure within the Christian life is waiting to hear from God. Believers down through the ages have persevered in their hope of God’s providence and sovereignty, even in the face of waiting to receive their answer. This determination to persevere reveals not their faith in their request, but rather their faith in the One on whom they call.

The contemporary attitude of prayer is often dismissed by the secular public, and many times Christians too fail to keep the conviction of disciplined prayer. One helpful perspective might be for believers to understand God’s purpose behind prayer. What does it accomplish in the heart and mind of the Christ follower, and what does it accomplish concerning God’s glory on earth?

When we fail to go to God for the concerns of life, we rely only on our own ability. Its like trying to shovel your driveway with a 20 inch shovel when God’s answer is like the width of a plow truck, and can inject power that we could never imagine by our own effort.

The world is not as it should be. There righteous are found to be persecuted, and the wicked prosper. Evils in this world go unpunished, and the glory of God isn’t found saturating His creation as it should. When the Prophet Isaiah recognizes the coming of God’s Son he sees a judge who will come without the errors we carry; he sees One who will come with integrity and justice.

Love is the avenue upon which trust travels. Trusting God with your life and your future is natural response to His love. It is at Christmas that we truly see the love of God made evident to us in the giving of His one and only Son.

Its not what you know, but WHO you know that matters. As many have information about God and can describe His attributes, only those who have a relationship with God through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can testify that they truly KNOW Him.

The power of God has been the single greatest benefit to the believer in the process of sanctification and growing in the transformative likeness of Jesus Christ. Even though God’s law is perfect, we are incapable of living it because through the weakness of the flesh (or sinful nature) the command produces only death. It is through the birth of Jesus that the power of God is revealed and that we...

It is a good thing that God knows better than we do. It is a further good thing that He is in control. Isaiah 11:2 reveals that the Messiah will have the Spirit of the Lord and the “Spirit of wisdom and of understanding.” This message will look at how Christmas reveals the wisdom of God in the sending of Jesus as the Christ, the Godman who will turn the world’s wisdom upside-down.

The Christmas season is the perfect time to reflect on what it really means for us that God became man.  As God chose to empty Himself in the person of Jesus Christ, we are shown what true humility looks like.  There is no better example to inspire us today to give to one another an attitude of meekness such that we might have a singleness of unity and purpose. Philippians 2:1-11 (NIV) 2 Therefore...

The ability for the church to represent God the Father here on earth is not possible from natural man alone. We must have help from the indwelling of the Spirit to transform us and grow us in the image of Christ. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 5:21 that our union in Christ’s death on the cross has afforded us the privilege of becoming the righteousness of God. This transfer is available only thro...

We, as Christians, are of the most privileged people on the planet, because the blood of Christ has been applied to our transgressions and we have been drawn to God through love. The problem is that even though this is true, we sometimes don’t live as though it is true. Rather than living as those who have been purchased by God, we often desire to continue living for ourselves. We will be “sold ou...

As we look at our world, its all too easy to judge people from the exterior; we base perceptions off of what people look like, how much money they have, or what social status they’re blessed or cursed with. However, once we’re made new in Christ, we have a fundamental change in our vision of the world. Its not about us. Its not about our agenda. Rather, it is about God purpose and plan to see peop...

Whether we like it or not, the neighbors are watching.  Once you become a Christian, the entire world becomes your mission field, and ready or not you are a witness to Christ’s work in your life.  Too many of us have for years served as a megaphone showing the world who God is without our knowledge that we were even speaking.  The Apostle Paul shows us that as those entrusted with the message of r...

In the same way we would give priority to caring for our own body (to make sure that all of our bodily members are functioning properly), God is concerned with keeping the “body of Christ” healthy and functioning. As a member of the church we are gifted with the task of serving Christ, and each one has the opportunity to serve for the betterment of the whole body. As the old children’s song goes,...

In a “consumer-centric” world where our natural tendencies towards self-centeredness, laziness, and procrastination lead to “quick-fixes” rather than transformative progress, the church can easily fall into two errors. (1) Fixating on entertainment, and/or (2) Disengaging from true discipleship. We must rediscover the true Purpose of the Church.