SGC Dayton Messages: Recent Episodes
Sovereign Grace Church Dayton: Bellbrook, OH
Sovereign Grace Church, located in Bellbrook, OH, is one of the many churches associated with Sovereign Grace Churches, a family of churches that has been around since 1981. We are passionate about God receiving the glory he alone deserves. We are committed to his Word, his gospel, his church, and his mission.
Anchor your life in the Triune God for hope and strength to endure trials and live faithfully in this hostile world.
Live with hope and confidence as Elect Exiles, knowing you are chosen by God, secure in His plan, and called to stand firm in a world that is not your home.
Humbly receive Peter's counsel, trusting his empathy and wisdom as one transformed by grace through personal failures and triumphs.
God has designed and directed man to work—and rest—unto the Lord, and His Word gives us boundaries to honor Him in our labor and leisure.
Living in the fear of the Lord compels us to value friendships highly and enjoy them fully.
We Must Stabilize the Godly Foundations. We Must Grow with Godly Purpose. We Must Correct with Godly Clarity.
The purpose, power, and peril of words. Part 1 is focused on Words that bring death. Part 2 is focused on words that bring life.
Amid the depths of your lament, repent and believe in Christ alone, who is the one who offers the hope of redemption and restoration.
Find hope and redemption in the midst of your darkness through the boundless mercy of God.
Humbly trust in Christ, and you will be enveloped by the mercy of God, even amid the darkest of nights.
By humbly casting our anxieties on God and humbly trusting in his unfailing love, we can experience hope and joy in the midst of any circumstance.
Having witnessed the God who fulfills his promises, we can live and die counting on his continued faithfulness.
Be assured that he who worked through broken people and sin-stained circumstances to ultimately provide redemption for his people, how much more will he work in your brokenness and sin-stained life for his glory and your present and future good?
We exist to glorify God by maturing and multiplying disciples who enjoy, declare, and display the good news of Jesus for the joy of all peoples.
Just as God has purposed the most horrendous moments in the Bible to bring about his plan of salvations so has he purposed the absolute worst moments of your life for the praise of his glory and for our deep and everlasting good.
Amid all the troubles of this life, trust in the one true God who alone guarantees the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your soul.
Session One of the Interpreting the Bible Seminar taught by Dr. Robert Plummer of SBTS.
Session Two of the Interpreting the Bible Seminar taught by Dr. Robert Plummer of SBTS.
We can trust our good and faithful God to keep us and direct us amid any circumstances until the day we see him face to face.
If we grasp that God’s constant “I am with you” is for us and depends on nothing but his own powerful, gracious, and committed word— we will worship him.
Find rest, amid our own dysfunctional lives, in the absolute assurance of God's faithfulness to accomplish His Glorious Purposes in us and through us.
Live with the assurance that there will be nothing that stands in the way of God fulfilling his plan in you and for you.
God will sovereignly accomplish what He purposes through those whom many consider weak and foolish for the glory of His Name.
To be a people who grow in the ministry of intercessory prayer we must be a people of the book. Humbly coming to the book with open hands and open hearts asking God to reveal himself to us and to strip us of our tendency to read haphazardly, dispassionately, and unexpectantly. We must be a people of the word. And in tandem with being a people of the word, we must also be a people who are continually being filled with the Spirit.
Psalm 119:145-152 instructs that our strength comes from a needy frame and posture. We have a need for prayer, for God’s Word, and ultimately God Himself, Who is near to us.
You can have hope that soars above sin, suffering, and death by having your heart exposed to the glory of Christ in his humble arrival.
True life is found only in receiving and living in the light of the glory of Immanuel, God with us.
God, whose faithfulness spans generations, invites us to act upon our promised future as those who believe that he will fulfill his word.
The trustworthy King has provided for your redemption…will you surrender all to him and trust him with your life and your family and your relationships and your finances and your future?
We can rejoice in the faithfulness of the King today being assured that he will surely present all who trust him as blameless on that final day.
The fire of God’s righteous judgment is coming, and the only way of deliverance is in Christ Jesus alone.
Press on in trusting your covenant making God, for he will not fail to keep his promise to you.
By overcoming seeming barriers to his plans, God invites us to proceed in faith believing that he alone is the guarantor of his promises.
God’s Word points us to his faithful promises to us in Christ which helps us trust him, obey him, and hope in him.
The sovereign plan of our sovereign King to restore his glorious kingdom on earth is meant to provide hope to you and me amid the darkness of the secular kingdoms all around us.
The one King who moves in real history is the one God for whom all humanity exists, and through whom all humanity will find forgiveness, freedom, and hope eternal.
We exist to mature and multiply disciples who enjoy, declare, and display the good news of Jesus for the joy of all peoples.
Jesus invites you to come and eat of him. He invites you to come and drink of him. Apart from him you can do nothing. Apart from him there is only hopelessness. But in Him is life. Will you come? He is inviting you to find life and meaning in him, to close your ears to Lady Folly and open your ears and your heart to Lady Wisdom, in whom is the real life you long for. The choice is yours.
Passively forfeiting the offer to receive God’s wisdom opens you up to guaranteed destruction while an active, watchful pursuit of his wisdom reaps the joy of true life.
The wisdom of godly sexuality that provides deeply satisfying and delightful freedom is found in the all-satisfying gift of God himself.
In knowing Christ Jesus we will find the overwhelming worth of godly wisdom and enjoy all the promises of God that are yes and amen in him.
There is grace to endure the hardships you face in this life as you place your trust in the incontestable love and faithfulness of God for you.
We give generously to guard our hearts from the love of money and receive the promise of contentment in this life and eternal rewards in the life to come.
The wisdom of godly parents is a means by which God protects and preserves his children.
The fear of the Lord produces a sense of joyful trembling in a forgiven sinner before a holy and righteous God that leads to drawing near to him in wholehearted devotion.
Listening to the voice of God's Wisdom in the Scriptures is the only way to experience abundant life and favor from the Lord.
Having received the mercies of God through Jesus Christ and been given a part in His body, give yourself sacrificially, soberly, and socially to the worship of God in your service of His church.
The egregious sin of Ham is met with a curse along with a blessing to his brother Shem which would bring hope for all those cursed under sin.
The flood was not a divine failure requiring a divine do-over. Instead, God in his mercy makes a covenant with Noah so his promises can still be fulfilled.
Even amid against pervasive wickedness, God once again reveals himself as the steadfastly gracious, merciful, and faithful God.
On account of the perfect life, death, and resurrection of King Jesus, we have been given the certain hope of eternal life amid the very real threat of death.
Through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross, God saved us from himself, by himself, and for himself so that we might proclaim the excellencies of him who called us out of darkness into marvelous light.
We live in that peace and hopeful expectation knowing that no matter how hard the battle continues to be, God is, and will be, faithful to preserve his church until Christ gains the final victory.
We are called to be slaves to Christ through gospel informed, Spirit empowered servanthood not just on occasion, but as an integral part of our identity.
God’s gracious promise of paradise restored gives certain hope, needed assurance today, to all of us who are suffering as we await his glorious appearing.
Treasure Christ and his Kingdom rather than the praise of men and the pleasures of the world.
By the word of his omnipotent and sovereign power, the King of the universe created the earth as his good kingdom.
The message of Genesis was intended by God to encourage his people to Know Him, Trust Him and His promises, and to follow him by faith amid the difficult days they were facing.
We participate in the mission of making disciples of Jesus Christ as those sent by Jesus himself and empowered by his Spirit to save and mature those who are his.
When global calamity is happening before our eyes, we must be keenly and freshly aware that King Jesus is lovingly inviting us to consider our own lives before him with sober intention, repentant and trusting all the more in the mercy and grace of God through Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Christians are to be marked by steadfast, loving, kind, gracious action amid grace-laced, truthful words amid a very real grief over the debasing of God’s image that is imprinted on humanity
We engage in true worship when we admit the depth of our sin and the greatness of God’s grace.
Followers of King Jesus engage with the culture steadfastly and obediently speaking truth with humble grace and gentle courtesy.
Truly believing that which we say we believe will cause us to endure suffering and grief in a different manner than those who do not believe what we believe.
We fight the good fight against the enemies of our faith by trusting in and believing God and His word and deciding by the grace of God and the power of the Spirit to kick the devil in the teeth as we pray, pray, pray.
The absolute delight mankind can experience in this age is only found in the eternal promises of the age to come that Christmas points to.
Delighting in your life in Christ is the only reality that will rightly motivate you to a Godward life.
The Church is the object of our God’s great love and the context for His very real, personal care.
Both Baptism and the Lord’s Supper serve to enhance your understanding of, love for, and real-time fellowship with Jesus Christ.
The Holy Spirit empowers believers for the continuing mission of Jesus in our lives, in this church, and in this world today.
The Holy Spirit is a gift of grace to be our personal helper that we would know the nearness and power of God now and forever.
Gospel truth planted in our hearts by the power of the Spirit will bear the fruit of gospel powered relationships.
We would do well to make knowing and glorifying Jesus Christ the aim of all of our love, devotion, worship, ambitions, dreams, and obedience, for this is fitting, good, and filled with unspeakable joy.
Men and women flourish as God’s image bearers in distinct and complementary ways as co-heirs in Christ and co-laborers for the gospel in marriage, singleness, and in the church
Seeing the beauty of God’s design in creating us in his image and the how we can reflect his image in a manner that is consistent with who he has created us to be – as either male or female.
There is none like you, O LORD, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 1 Chronicles 17:20 (ESV)
God has mercifully spoken through the scriptures to clearly give you everything needful to know him truly, love him dearly, and follow him completely.
A robust biblical statement of faith is critical to our spiritual nourishment individually and the health of our church corporately.
Considering how our new building can function as a memorial stone in the life of our church.
Through Christ, the living God dwells with us and remakes us to find our home with him forever.
All of creation is an invitation to each of us to worship the greatness and goodness of God.
When you feel crushed on every side, cry out and surrender to your gracious, loving Savior and Shepherd of your soul.
Our trust in the infinitely good God who provides all we need will be revealed in our sacrificial generosity in gospel partnership locally and globally.
What power does Christ have over the corrupting effects of sin in our world? From this story, we see that Christ has the power to heal the corrupting effects of sin in our world. And his power has not faltered in your life today. The same Christ who was at work in Jairus’ daughter and in this woman’s healing is at work right now in your life.
The freedom of contentment in our lives will only come from being increasingly captivated by the Lord.
Experiencing the powerful, intimate, joy-inducing, relational presence in the everydayness of our lives is the privilege of all who hope in Christ.
The hope of the second coming of Jesus empowers and motivates us to stand firm amid the persistent problems of the present.
Our collective effort of humbly obeying the exalted Christ is hard, joyous work made possible by the power of God.
Our imitation of Christ’s humility will lead to joy in our unity now and everlasting joy when he returns
May the controlling desire of your life be that Jesus would be magnified through you at every point so that you would rejoice at knowing him more in this life and that you would see your death as the doorway to gaining Christ fully.
Our joy increases as we give thanks for God’s grace in one another, and pray expectantly for God’s grace to increase in one another.
We can experience indestructible joy that is produced by the Holy Spirit, as he causes us to see the beauty of Christ displayed in the gospel and in God’s people
The hope of our deepest longings being fulfilled depends on Christ’s faithful, redeeming love for us.
The God who may cause your life to be bitter or painful couldn’t be more concerned with mercifully doing good to you.
You were created to recognize and give thanks to God for his steadfast love in the morning and his faithfulness by night.
King Jesus is the good news of great certainty and the source of great joy now and forevermore for all who believe on him.
The good news of Jesus Christ will be enjoyed, declared, and displayed in your life for the joy of all peoples as your foundations go deep into the Word and the Spirit.
Your heart will warm in the nearness of God by believing what the Bible tells you about Jesus.
Jesus rising from the dead proves that he is trustworthy and mighty to fulfill his promises to save us.
Through his rule and reign, Jesus, our priest-king vanquishes our deepest fears and conquers our greatest enemies.
The Saturday after Jesus’ death is a refuge for those who are losing hope in the promises of God.
Jesus has warned us of our need of salvation. He has told us that there is salvation through forgiveness found in his death in our place. He has promised that this salvation is eternal life with him in heaven and he has declared to us that this salvation is so certain that not even death can touch it.
Though it may not always feel true, you have been raised from the dead and your new life is found in Christ.
Amid the ever-darkening hearts of humanity shines the inextinguishable light and glory of the omnipotent King of kings.
Fervent and believing prayer provides the people of God with precisely what is needed in the face of even the severest of difficulties.
Look to the faithful provisions of Jesus to find hope amid the sometimes confusing path of discipleship.
Absolutely nothing is able to thwart the sovereign and loving plan of God to redeem his people.
Anticipating that Jesus will return to save you prepares you to endure in faith until he comes.
When we truly grasp the foundational realities of our existence, our faint hearts explode into lives of joyful offering to the One who is worthy of our all.
God cares about your desires, and he is working to transform your desires to find deep and satisfying fulfillment in him.
Jesus stands in the middle of your crumbling path of rejection and compels you to trust him.
This parable serves to contrast an evil, tyrant king who is hated by his people and wants to see his opponents slaughtered in his presence, with King Jesus – a compassionate Savior who weeps over Jerusalem and gives his life to save his people. Two entirely different kinds of kings. Two entirely different kind of kingdoms. His kingdom is like none other.
The Holy Spirit is moving in you today to further enable a life of patient expectation that all is well.
You must place your faith today in the person and work of Jesus the Messiah if you are to be saved.
Working to rediscover the enormous heart of Jesus to diligently remove every possible hindrance from a world who is in desperate need for a lovingly accessible Savior to rest their weary lives on.
To keep ourselves from despairing unbelief, you and I must persistently pray as we eagerly await the Lord's return.
We need to say hello and goodbye with blessings and benedictions that impart grace to others.
Our enjoyment of the kingdom of God now and then is assured through our present faith in Jesus Christ alone.
The genuine faith of a disciple of Jesus is revealed in their posture of humble worship.
The narrow hope of a disciple of Jesus is guaranteed through the broad accomplishments of Jesus in his death and resurrection.
We must protect one another from the insidious nature of sin while mercifully extending forgiveness to those who humbly ask.
Disciples of Jesus shrewdly utilize their God-given possessions in this world to ensure their eternal future.
Real lasting, unfading hope is in our immutable God - in his unchanging mercy given through Jesus and the ongoing indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Following Jesus demands a life of uncompromising sacrifice that promises unparalleled and eternal treasure.
Nothing is more eternally consequential than undervaluing the invitation to sit at Jesus' banquet table.
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you.
As the Lord of the Sabbath, Jesus graciously lets those who believe in him taste the physical and spiritual rest which he will one day give to them in full measure for eternity.
The path of reformation in 2021 will only be found by a Spirit-enabled people who return in thought and deed to the truth and ways found in the word of God.
Jesus is the certain promise who entered our weary world to demonstrate the steadfast depths of the love of God towards you and me.
Jesus is the certain promise who entered our weary world to make the way for us to experience fullness of joy in the presence of God.
Jesus is the certain promise who entered our weary world to guarantee our hope for full and final deliverance from sin and death.
Jesus is the certain promise who entered our weary world to assure us that God's goodness is trustworthy even as we groan for his appearing.
A message given by our Lower Great Lakes Regional Leader, Ken Mellinger, to encourage the church family on a day where we celebrate the ordination of Cale Benefield into pastoral ministry locally, and into the family of Sovereign Grace Churches.
The intentional compassionate desires of Christ compel us to find the green pastures of rest in Him alone.
The clear and compassionate call from Jesus, the Son of God, is purposefully aimed as you....will you enter through the narrow door?
Deliverance from the damning, counterfeit kingdoms of this world is solely found in the authority of Christ the true King.
Deliverance from the damning, counterfeit kingdoms of this world is solely found in the authority of Christ the true King.
The joyful freedom of a disciple of Jesus characterized by fruitful repentance is located in the finished work of Jesus on our behalf.
The urgent call for each of us to repent is a merciful invitation from Jesus given out of love.
In Jesus the Kingdom of God has come, today is the day to get your life in order and be reconciled to God.
Seeking eternal treasure will guard our hearts against greed and anxiety, and replace it with contentment and generosity.
God's Terrifying Holiness Makes Judgment Real While His Trustworthy Love Makes Persecution Bearable.
We must respond to the final sign of Jesus' death and resurrection with repentance and faith or be condemned at the final judgement.
“Dear fellow soldiers! We are few, and we have a desperate fight before us, therefore it is needful that every man should be made the most of, and nerved to his highest point of strength. It is desirable that the Lord’s ministers should be the picked men of the church, yea, of the entire universe, for such the age demands; therefore, in reference to yourselves and your personal qualifications, I give you the motto “Go forward.” Go forward in personal attainments, forward in gifts and in grace, forward in fitness for the work, and forward in conformity to Jesus.” Charles Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, p. 23
Christian discipleship allows no room for neutrality but demands a thoroughly transforming trust in God’s word.
Jesus calls us away from the anxiety of a distracted life and invites us to choose the joyous necessity of sitting at his feet.
The gospel crushes our self-righteousness and compels us toward self-sacrificing acts of mercy toward those in need.
There's nothing in this world, no matter how bad things may or may not be, that can strip the eternal joy that the gospel of grace evokes in a disciple of Jesus.
Unless the hearts of God’s people change and are set aflame with affection for him and set aflame with the compassion Jesus has for the nations to come to him and escape the fires of judgment in that final harvest, none will go. But when our hearts see and savor Christ the King and know the freedom of salvation and live in the good of it, we will hear the voice of Jesus clearly and follow him happily into this mission to mature and multiply disciples who enjoy, declare, and adorn, the very gospel of Jesus Christ for the joy of all peoples.
Meditating on the revealed promises of heaven gives us the only proper and productive perspective for sweet justice now.
The people marked by justice are a people who have been humbly changed by the gospel of Christ.
For the follower of Jesus, the way we think about justice in our day must be primarily informed by the gospel of grace.
Learning to praise the God of justice now in light of the cross of Jesus motivates us to walk in the way of justice.