For the final time in 2025, the men of Cross of Grace will gather together to sit under the word, engage in robust discussion, bear their brother’s burdens, and call out to the Lord in prayer. All guys 15 years and older are welcome to join in at the Erkelens home tonight at 7pm.
We’re wrapping up our first year of youth ministry meetings! God has blessed these moments and built up our community of young people in wonderful ways. Make sure to make it out to this final meeting of 2025 before we break for our December Fallow Month! All CGSA youth and their friends are welcome to join in as the group finishes their discussion of C.S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters, crowns the winner of the youth group games, and more! We’ll see you Sunday at 6:30pm at Hopper & Burr in DTSA.
Every Tuesday we publish a blog post to lay out in one place what’s going in the life of the church for the upcoming week. Below we’ve got a snapshot of what’s on the calendar this week:
Basketball in the Park
6:00pm - El Camino Park
Reach out to Manny for more info
Women’s Friendsgiving
6:30pm - Schlieder Home
French Park Run Club
6:30am - French Park Grass Area
Men’s Meeting
7:00pm - Erkelens home
Neighborhood Outreach
10:00am - Meet at the Hidden House Parking Lot
Contact Brian Marcus to RSVP & for more details.
Sunday Gathering at Ebell Club
10:00am - Meeting Room: Ballroom
The ladies of CGSA are gathering for their annual Friendsgiving tomorrow, November 12 at the Schlieder home! Get ready to come together for food and fellowship in the spirit of thanksgiving to the Lord who’s blessed us so richly in Christ. It is potluck-style with traditional Thanksgiving food, so please plan to bring a dish, snack, or dessert to share. You’re welcome to bring along any friends or guests to join us as we spend the evening celebrating God’s goodness through our relationships and giving thanks to his name.
“Let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man! For he satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul he fills with good things” - Ps 107:8-9
Every story has a hero, and every hero has an origin story. Exodus 2 is the origin story of Moses, the protagonist of Exodus. But while Moses is a hero who brings us into the unfolding events of the book and moves the plot along, he’s not the capital “H” Hero of Exodus. His story is significant, but it’s not the whole story. Because his story teaches us that in Exodus, the true Hero is God. Everything that Moses did to free his people from captivity happened because God himself was stepping into the story. Hearing his people’s cries, remembering his promises, seeing their suffering, knowing their groaning under the awful weight of slavery, and then doing something about it. God stepped into Israel’s story back then, but do we believe he’ll step into our stories today? If you’re doubting whether he hears your cries, wonder if he cares about what you’re going through, or he seems distant to you, then look to the story of Moses and be encouraged. Because this hero ultimately points us forward to the Hero named Jesus. The Savior through whom God has stepped into our stories to change them forever.
This week, 4 groups will meet throughout our city to share in the joy of Jesus and apply his gospel to each other’s lives. Outside of Sunday mornings, small groups are the most important moments in the life of our church.
We’ve got 2 meetings left before we break for the December fallow month. Make it a priority to be there!
Friendsgiving will be next Wednesday, November 12 at the Schlieder home at 6:30pm! Every year, the ladies of CGSA switch up their last meeting of the year (since it would normally fall on Thanksgiving) and get together for food and fellowship in the spirit of thanksgiving to the Lord for all he’s done for us! It is potluck-style with traditional Thanksgiving food, so please plan to bring a dish/snack/dessert to share.
We hope to see you there as we spend the evening celebrating God’s goodness through our relationships and giving thanks to his name.
Every six months, we hold a members’ meeting after service which usually lasts about 30-40 minutes. This meeting is mandatory for all members, but guests are welcome as well. It’s a time to communicate what we wouldn’t communicate on a typical Sunday morning. We’ll look back on what God has graciously done in the last 6 months and look forward to where we believe God is taking us. Come on Dec 7th eager to hear what God is up to in our church.
Every Tuesday we publish a blog post to lay out in one place what’s going in the life of the church for the upcoming week. Below we’ve got a snapshot of what’s on the calendar this week:
Basketball in the Park
6:00pm - El Camino Park
Reach out to Manny for more info
French Park Run Club
6:30am - French Park Grass Area
Small Groups
7:00pm - Lee & Roenicke Homes
Small Groups
7:00pm - Davis & Erkelens Homes
AV Training Day
8:45am - Meet in front of Ebell Club
Sunday Gathering at Ebell Club
10:00am - Meeting Room: Ballroom
The Bridge Course
7:00pm - Hopper & Burr in DTSA
This is the last meeting!
Invite someone to join us for Bridge!
The opening chapter of Exodus is given to us for scale. The gospel is big. But to accurately take in the scope of God's gracious accomplishment, we need something to compare it to. Ex 1:8-22 sets the bigness of the gospel side by side with the badness of sin. Israel lived under the awful shadow of slavery and death. Apart from the rescuing work of Christ, this is the true state of our souls. Captive to sin, heading toward death, with nothing we can do to free ourselves. When we’re truly affected by the badness of this bad news, we can truly appreciate the goodness of the gospel. The good news that God spared the lives of the Hebrew sons back then. The even better news that in the fullness of time God sent his only Son to die.
