My boys are out golfing me every single time now and I love it. #sapphirevalley #cashiersnc

Saints, pray for Sara Lucas and Sissy Pipa as they battle cancer.

Happy 4th of July from the Batzig family and Anna’s dad, Tommy Day, in Cashiers, NC. We praise God for the many freedoms we enjoy. #sapphirevalley #4thofjuly

“God desires to exercise mercy as much as you desire to feel [your need for it].” — Thomas Manton

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“One way to get comfort is to plead the promise of God in prayer, show Him His handwriting; God is tender of His Word.” — Thomas Manton

An inflated sense of self-importance is antithetical to the grace of God. No one who truly feels their need for God’s grace in Christ can live as if they are superior to others because of their gifts, stations, or callings in life (1 Corinthians 4:7).

The reception of God’s mercy in Christ makes us merciful toward others. Those who are unmerciful reveal that they have never truly received God’s mercy (Matthew 18:21-35).

“I thank God for the man who not only prayed me into the kingdom when I was a school boy; I am so thankful that he spent the next 20 years praying me on.” — John Stott

“Waiting is one of God’s most regular tools of maturing grace. From the perspective of the gospel, waiting is never just about getting what you’ve been waiting for, but, more importantly, about the good changes in you that God produces through the wait.“ - Paul David Tripp

“In all of [Paul’s] teaching, in all of his preaching, in all of his missionary activity, the central point of importance was the cross.” - R.C. Sproul

“In the church, God has appointed Christ to be king. . .The church is built upon Christ like a temple upon a rock, and is born like a body from him as the head. Here the king exists prior to his people.” — Herman Bavinck

I believe that one of the biggest problem in the church in our day is that so many in churches expect the leadership, and the church on the whole, to live the Christian life for them. The church and its leaders cannot live the Christian life for believers; they can merely equip

I am really looking forward to starting two new sermon series this Sunday at Church Creek PCA in #charlestonsc. In the AM, we will begin a new series on the letter to the Philippians; and, in the PM, we will move from our series in Joshua to our new series in Judges. If you're in

"I can think of no other good account that can be given of the apostle Paul’s wishing 'grace and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ' in the beginning of his Epistles, without ever mentioning the Holy Spirit, – as we find it thirteen times in his salutations in

"Church growth is not primarily numerical growth. Church growth is not a change in structures or ideas or methodology. Church growth is always marked by a change in people. That is what church growth is all about in the apostolic teaching." – Eric Alexander