Holy Week Playlist
From Sovereign Grace Music: In preparation for Holy Week, we wanted to share a Spotify playlist of songs we have compiled that will help you reflect on Jesus’s life and death and deepen your affection for our beautiful Savior.ㅤWithout a word You faced the accusationsAnd joyfully You bore the bitter crossThe Innocent received our condemnationAnd […]
Earnestly Desire the Spiritual Gifts
Recently on the Mark Prater podcast, Mark encouraged listeners to earnestly desire the spiritual gifts as an expression of loving others. Here is a clip from that conversation with Ben Kreps. The full podcast is linked below. We don’t want to just be in name continuation, we want to be it in name and in […]
Global Gospel Advancement
Recently on the Mark Prater podcast, Mark gave an update on Sovereign Grace Partnership and gospel advancement throughout the world. Here are a few excerpts from that conversation: I’m so grateful for how pastors in Sovereign Grace are working to advance the gospel. One of the things that’s so interesting to me, anybody that’s read […]
Trinity College of Louisville
Recently on the podcast, Mark Prater met with Steve Whitacre, President of Trinity College of Louisville, a Christian liberal arts college founded in 2022 as an independent organization, separate from Sovereign Grace Churches, but with a vision of serving Sovereign Grace churches. “We got thinking, what if we could provide a higher education option that […]
WorshipGod Conference
If you plan, lead, or participate in the Sunday gatherings of your local church, the WorshipGod Conference will equip and encourage you to serve with greater faith, joy, and fruitfulness. Main session speakers will include John Piper, Jared Mellinger, HB Charles, Jr., Josh Blount, Devon Kauflin, and Mike Bullmore. Musical guests will include Ben Shive, […]
Pastors Europe Retreat
At the end of December we released a mission video about a global leaders retreat we had in Poland in June. I hope you will take time to watch it and celebrate what God is doing through the faithful labors of men and churches in other countries. May God continue to bless our small family […]
RELAY 2024 Messages Posted
“As I’ve traveled throughout Sovereign Grace churches this year, I thank God for the young people in our churches. I see younger generations of people, and I’m thinking particularly the teen years into the twenties, early thirties, who really love Jesus and are excited about the work of the gospel and love their Sovereign Grace […]
The Arche Pastors College, Hamburg, Germany
An update from Markus Kniesel, Dean of the Arche Pastors College in Hamburg, Germany: In a few months, the Arche Pastors College (APC) will have existed for 10 years in Germany. We are glad to share with you with much gratitude to God how He has built and blessed the APC for His Kingdom during […]
State of the Union Address 2023
The 2023 Sovereign Grace Churches State of the Union address is posted on the Sovereign Grace website along with all Pastors Conference resources. On his recent podcast, Mark highlighted three key points from his annual State of the Union Address: Developing Future Pastors Risk to Plant Churches in the United States Protecting and Promoting Our […]
What Does a Church Planter Look Like?
“The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few.”— Matthew 9:37 A Church Planter is a: Discipler: A church planter is someone marked by a sense of mission to lead others to follow Jesus. He is a disciple-making disciple. Pastor: A church planter is also a pastor and must fulfill the biblical requirements for character […]