Grace Sagola Church

God has designed to work through us in this broken world by first working through His Son Jesus. God didn't stay far off and removed from creation, rather, He entered into the creation, suffered, and died. It is only the Christian God who is intimately engaged in our broken world.

God has designed us as creatures with an innate response to the transcendent. It is our goal to capture a biblical expression of this attribute of God for application in our lives as we seek to follow and obey the purpose and plan of the Almighty. 

The character of God is found most acutely in His justice. When we step back and take a look at how God treats us, it reveals a God who is unlike our most reactionary impulses. God has built this unique love into His promises to us and our children. 

The Doctrine of the Trinity is the single most essential teaching that makes Christianity "Christian". And a rejection of the Trinity has been characteristically plagued with further false teachings and missing God's design for worship. We must rediscover that the gospel itself is wholly and thoroughly Trinitarian. 

The attribute of God's patience is displayed throughout the scriptures, and made most clear through the person of Jesus Christ. Without God's long-suffering, forbearance, and patience we would perish. The expression of God's patience is designed that sinners, like you and me, would repent.

God's doesn't have "holiness" - He is the definition of Holiness. When we encounter God's holiness, we cannot help but also encounter our sinfulness. It is through the undeserved atonement of Jesus, that we become useful in service to God. 

The attributes of God that we can have a share in are brought to full expression in God's Son, Jesus.  Not only does Jesus contain all the fullness of deity, but through Jesus we are invited into the divine nature - that we too would express the characteristics of our God. 

Repeatedly through the scriptures, God is defined as the One who made the heavens and the earth.  He is unconfined by His creation; our ability to relate to Him must begin with an acknowledgment of the distinction between the Creator and His creatures. 

One of the enduring mysteries that the scriptures report concerns the return of Jesus. By God’s design we are only revealed enough to develop a trust in the God who fulfills His promises. 

God's plan, sometimes referred to as a mystery, is the revelation of His glory as executed through the church. This means that we must take seriously our participation in His purposes, and shape our worship around those characteristics that lead to the unfolding of His glory. 

Our response to the gospel is one of surrendering our entire life over to God's design, authority, and glory.  The wonder of God’s love is that He is the one who enables us to do this! 

The mystery of advent speaks to God's full plan in the giving of His one and only Son, Jesus. He is our older brother in God's family, that gives us access to our loving Heavenly Father!

The mystery of Jesus' advent goes far beyond just His birth. We are offered immeasurable blessings in God's provision for our reconciliation by the giving of His Son Jesus. 

God's plan for saving the world would flow through a submissive young woman: Mary.  Her response to God's call provides us with an example of a humble, trusting, and yielded spirit - willing to follow where God' leads.

The kingdom of our Lord is breaking into this world through the person, message, and people of Jesus Christ.  We, as Christians, are tasked with engaging our world/culture with the distinctiveness of Jesus; confident of God's ultimate triumph in recreation to establish a new heaven and new earth!

The church today has been given her marching orders for organization and character.  She must the Lord’s design, which, unfortunately, is often easier to say than to do.  Observations: The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t belief in God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t knowing God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t knowing the love of God The kingdom of man’s priority isn’t the community o...

Our country is built upon the years of both the wisdom of the kingdom of God and the idolatry from the kingdom of man.  When we examine the core of America's policy decisions, we will see that they all relate back to the sovereignty of the individual to determine their own pursuit of happiness. 

The culture of the kingdom of Rome was the strongest and most powerful yet known on the earth.  As this culture made it way into the church, it would have to be addressed as belonging to the world's ideology - a way of life that Jesus calls His followers to reject. 

The kingdom of man will further strengthen its influence upon God's people through a process called enculturation.  The church's response must a be careful engagement and an avoidance of isolation - that we might reach the lost with a creative and intentional reframing of the culture.

The biblical characters exiled in Persia give us a glimpse of what it looks like to engage in a governmental and political system that does not fear or respect God. There's much for us to learn for today in observing how followers of God kept their focus on His promises and purposes while living as aliens. 

This world can easily be identified with a spirit of Babylon.  She is that ancient type of describing the depravity of the kingdom of man.  Nevertheless, God has placed His church and fashioned His people to be the light for the kingdom of God. 

Our current culture has many parallels to the world of the ancients. Yet, there is a pattern that the scriptures outline for the follower of Jesus Christ.  The very same diverse expression of "the gods of Egypt" must be replaced with a faith in Jesus.

The world, during the time of Sodom and Gomorrah, has many frighteningly similar characteristics to our world today. These patterns are observed under the values and ideologies of the kingdom of man.  Review:  The entire world is shaped by national tribalism and following false gods that elevate the secular to the sacred, as humanity assumes the role of deciding what is good God now has His own na...

Our citizenship in heaven will come at the cost of our allegiances on earth.  Where each of us would fail in fully trusting God, we will see that Jesus succeeds. 

The story of God's redemption reveals an arch of His Sovereign grace. When sin goes unaddressed in a culture it will inevitably define that people in opposition to their Creator. Nevertheless, the mercy of our God will keep reveling supernatural grace!