SUNDAY – MORNING PRAYER EMPHASIS – Human Trafficking Human Trafficking Awareness Month (KEEP THESE REQUESTS TO HELP GUIDE YOUR PRAYING ALL MONTH) Human Trafficking Defined – Recruiting, abduction, facilitating, transferring, harboring, or transporting a person, by threat or use of coercion, fraud or deception or by the purchase, sale, trade, transfer or receipt…

PRAYER WEEK SCHEDULE Sunday, January 11th – 9:45 – Adult Prayer Time; 10:45 – Worship Service; 6:00 pm – Church Wide Prayer Service all in church auditorium Monday, January 12th – 6:00 – 7:00 am Prayer time in church auditorium Tuesday, January 13th – Men’s Prayer Time – 6:30-7:30 am at Panera Bread on 71st…

THIS IS A GREAT ARTICLE FOR THIS YEAR TOO! 5 Ways to Pray for Your Church Family in 2014 from Erik Raymond Jan 22, 2014 Category: Articles As we turn our calendars to a new year, we instinctively make plans to give attention to what matters. As Christians, we know that when we think about…

I want to strongly encourage you to read God’s Word this coming year. Read more than you have in the past. You might try reading through the New Testament or reading through one of the gospels or try reading through the entire Bible this coming year. There are some helpful resources for doing so at…

I often get the opportunity these days to talk with young men and women who are pondering the best ways to prepare for a life of ministry. A part of that conversation usually revolves around, “Do I need to go to seminary?” or “Do I need to get more formal bible training?” Those are tough…

This Sunday, October 26th, will be our annual SOG Bon Fire and Weenie Roast at the Fry Farm in Collinsville. The whole church is invited and this will be in lieu of Small Groups. We will begin around 5:00. Please bring the following items if you can and join us for a night of fun…

In my message this morning I said that Jesus provided us access to God – access into the very “heart of the universe.”

I have had a couple of different people ask me about what I meant by this and that probably means that I did not explain it very well. So let me attempt to clarify.

Tim Challies posted on his blog “Thank God for A Messy Church” and I am sure glad He did. You can read the entire article here: http://www.challies.com/articles/thank-god-for-a-messy-church Springs of Grace is a messy church (often in a lot of ways!) and I am thankful for that – though it’s not always easy to be thankful…

I thought this Spurgeon quote speaks about our need for the dew of heaven in a similar way that our passage in Mark 8 Sunday showed us our need to see who Jesus is more clearly. Hope it blesses you too. The Dew of Heaven “His heavens shall drop down dew.” – Deuteronomy 33:28 What…

Jesus told a parable in Luke 10 that begins by Jesus affirming that the reason we are to live is to love God and to love the people He gives you to love – (Love your neighbor). That’s the calling. Love my fellow man as much as I love myself. Then Jesus tells a parable…