Run through the city with your DTSA neighbors on Saturday, October 19th!
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6 @ THE 2ND STREET PROMENADE
Oftentimes on Sundays, once we’re dismissed from the service, our time together has only just begun. We have a church full of people who love one another and love their neighbors. We want to provide ample outlets for that love.
This upcoming Sunday, we’ll all head over to the 2nd Street Promenade immediately after church to have lunch amongst our neighbors. Here are the details:
It’s “BYOL” (bring your own lunch). If you forget your lunch or your favorite Spiderman lunchbox isn’t clean, there are plenty of great restaurants right there. If possible, please make every effort to exercise frugality and bring a lunch from home.
It’s optional - but we highly encourage coming!
Bring some folding chairs - unless you like sitting on bricks, bring something to sit on; a blanket at least.
Expect the Lord to build existing relationships and create new ones with our neighbors
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
This year, we'll be spending the first Friday of every month fasting together and praying for a particular topic. Church members who fast for all 12 Fridays will be invited to a year-end party to celebrate the answers to our prayers. If fasting is new to you, here are some instructions.
This month, we’ll be praying for leaders in the church:
Pray for God to protect and preserve the leaders in our church - that their example of holiness might be a godly one before the members of the church and that they would remain above reproach
Pray that God would raise up new leaders from within our church with gifts of teaching, counseling, leadership, administration and others
Pray that God would give leaders in the church an enduring vision for our church and faith in the Lord alone for that vision
Pray that God would save men and women from our neighborhood who will one day be established as leaders in numerous different capacities
STARTING POINT - A TWO-HOUR CLASS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU LEARN ABOUT THE LIFE AND BELIEFS OF THIS CHURCH
REGISTER HERE
If you’ve been visiting Sovereign Grace Church of Santa Ana for any length of time, we’d like to invite you to our upcoming “Starting Point” class. It’s a class that takes place immediately after church on Sunday, October 13. Lunch will be served. It’s an opportunity to learn about the particular beliefs of our church and what those beliefs look like in practice in the life of our church together and with our community. If you’d like to attend, please register here or at the link above.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SERVICE AT THE HOULTON HOUSE
LUNCH PROVIDED
Baptism is a celebration. Friends and family and church family gather. It’s a celebration because God the Father, through the sacrifice of His Son, by the power of His Holy Spirit is saving men and women from sin. The lost are being found. Baptism is the evidence that this is true.
This last Sunday, we had the joy of witnessing the baptism of Lucy Paz. Check out the pictures and relive the celebration of new life in Christ.
Christmas In September
In the fourth and final sermon out of the book of Micah, God elevated our attitude toward the lowly by showing us through Micah 5:1-6 that He often works through insignificant people and insignificant circumstances to accomplish His greatest purposes.
The Messiah Was Born In Bethlehem To Remind Sinners That New Life Could Be Born In Our Hearts
We learn this foremost through the fact that Micah prophecies that God’s Messiah would be born in the most unassuming little town. The breadth of applications that this burins to our lives is staggering. Listen to last week’s sermon to elevate your attitude toward how God might work through lowliness in your life.
Plan On Staying After The Service This Sunday
Baptisms are the biggest celebrations in our local church. They're a public demonstration of what God has done in a new Christian's life by grace through faith in Jesus Christ.
AN OUTWARD SIGN OF AN INWARD WORK
If you've never been baptized or even if you were baptized as a child and you consider yourself a Christian and you'd like to be baptized, email kyle@sovgraceoc.org to begin the conversation.
STARTING POINT - A TWO-HOUR CLASS DESIGNED TO HELP YOU LEARN ABOUT THE LIFE AND BELIEFS OF THIS CHURCH
REGISTER HERE
If you’ve been visiting Sovereign Grace Church of Santa Ana for any length of time, we’d like to invite you to our upcoming “Starting Point” class. It’s a class that takes place immediately after church on Sunday, October 13. Lunch will be served. It’s an opportunity to learn about the particular beliefs of our church and what those beliefs look like in practice in the life of our church together and with our community. If you’d like to attend, please register here or at the link above.
IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SERVICE AT THE HOULTON HOUSE
LUNCH PROVIDED
Thursday, 7:00pm @ The Houlton Home
All Ladies, High School Age and Older, Welcome
Do Justice, Love Kindness, Walk Humbly With Your God
Last Sunday, in our third message in the book of Micah, we came across the Bible’s most famous passage regarding “social justice” - Micah 6:8. This verse is used as the basis for service projects, feedings ministries and short-term missions trips around the globe. But it’s important to understand why Micah said these words to the nation of Judah. In Micah chapters 6-7, we discover that in order to have the right motivation to serve the lowly among us, we have to recognize and acknowledge our spiritual lowness; our moral poverty. That realization positions us not as “Saviors” to our neighbors, but humbles us to know that we’re as needy as anybody for God’s grace. Furthermore, when we’ve received God’s grace for our moral poverty, we’re able to do social justice in a way that addresses the needs of the whole person - both physical and spiritual needs.