School is back! If you are a Junior or Senior High School student, please plan on joining us for our monthly meetups.
The first Thursdays of every month through May. Our meetings will rotate homes and you can expect food, fun, and a hearty conversation about God every time we gather.
This week we are at the Turbedsky Residence, 7-9PM. The topic is The Justice of God: What really is fair?
The pastoral team announced an ambitious plan to multiply our small groups this Fall. We need to make room for more people to experience the same kind of community and ministry that we have enjoyed...small groups of friends who act like families because we are.
Over the next few months, each of the three pastors who lead a small group will begin to prepare a new person to lead the group. If you are a member of one of these groups, you have a part to play. They will need your help in identifying, preparing, and supporting your leader. Change is never easy and grace is necessary all the way around. However, it's worth it when you consider the potential.
So join us in praying for God's continuing favor as we labor to extend ourselves for the advance of the gospel. Feel free to ask questions or even to nominate someone to lead. Press in, build deep, and be ready to welcome newcomers into your groups.
Tea.ology is monthly conversations in an informal setting, with "women talking like women" about God. The topics are chosen to challenge the group, and the discussion leader will ensure everyone is prepared before the meeting.
Enrollment is limited. You don't need to be a scholar, but you do need to be female, 18 years or older, a regular attender of Sovereign Grace, and willing to commit to a series of meetings.
We've asked everyone who accepted our challenge to read 12 books in 12 months to submit one sentence from every book they read. As John Piper says, “Books don’t change people, paragraphs do — sometimes sentences.”
This month's category was "A mystery or detective novel." and we should have seen this coming. We had a number of unusual sentences submitted. Here is a sample:
"Does your Lordship desire to be shaved?" - Sue
"Sunsets did that here (LA). Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story." - David
"Which is it today," I asked, " morphine or cocaine?" - Lois
"As of tomorrow, you can go around saying that the pope slits the throats of babies and eats them, or that Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the one who put the bomb on the Munich train, and people will say, ‘Oh, really? Interesting,’ and they’ll turn around and get on with what they were doing." - Daniel
Whatever we understand about God's covenants has the power to shape everything else we believe about the Bible. Charles Spurgeon said that "he who well understands the distinction between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, is a master of divinity.” Sunday School is where we'll become masters!
Come to Sunday School on August 21 as we begin a three week series that will help us discover answers to some of the following questions:
Join Jim and Angie (hosts) for a six week study designed to strengthen your marriage. Using the video series titled "The Art of Marriage", you'll spend time learning together in the group and alone as couples. This is a great way to grow healthy marriages in the context of community, learning from teachers like Wayne Grudem, Al Mohler, and Paul Tripp.
The next group meets Mondays, October 3rd through November 7th at Jim and Angie's residence. There is no childcare provided and the cost is $25 per couple.
All Junior and Senior High students are invited to our end-of-summer celebration. We'll be enjoying a beach bonfire and fellowship at Corona Del Mar.
S'mores and drinks provided. Dinner is BYO and optional. Families are welcome to celebrate with us. Contact Lisa for more info.
