Bonded by Belief

Beloved brothers and sisters, and to all who are seeking truth in a fractured world: grace and peace to you. We live in a time where the lines between darkness and light are often blurred by culture, yet the human heart remains desperate for a rescue that it cannot achieve on its own. We look around us and see brokenness; we look within us and see a struggle. It is into this very chaos that the voice of the Gospel speaks with a clarity that shatters the confusion. In his profound sermons delivered at Grace Gospel Church, Pastor Sam Merigala unfolds the magnificent reality of the Incarnation—not merely as a sentimental holiday event, but as a strategic military invasion by the Creator into rebel territory. Let us journey together through the theological depths of these sermons, examining the "Divine Infiltration" of Jesus Christ. We must understand why He came, who He is, and what His arrival means for the crushing weight of sin and the tyranny of the Devil. I. The Eternal Ide...

Dear brothers and sisters, seekers of truth, and friends from every walk of life: It is often said that we see what we are looking for. As the calendar turns and the days grow short, our eyes are naturally drawn to the glowing lights, the wreaths of evergreen, and the familiar comforts of the holiday season. We feel a shift in the atmosphere - a distinct charge in the air that signals the arrival of a special time. We have inherited a vision of this season largely shaped by cultural architects like Charles Dickens, who, in 1843, penned A Christmas Carol in a mere six weeks. Dickens, shaped by the humiliations of his childhood labor at Warren’s Blacking Warehouse and the crushing imprisonment of his father for debt, sought to transform Christmas into a festival of generosity, a singular time when humanity agrees to "open their shut-up hearts freely". While there is beauty in the Dickensian spirit of goodwill, Jonathan Merigala, in his sermon at Grace Gospel Church, invites us...

Grace and peace be multiplied to you, dear readers, as we turn our hearts and minds toward the profound, life-altering truths revealed by the Apostle Paul in his letter to the Ephesians, as faithfully expounded upon by Pastor Sam Merigala in his powerful sermon series, "Transformed in Christ". It is our spiritual duty to meditate deeply upon the foundations of our faith, for only when we comprehend the dreadful gulf from which we were rescued can we truly appreciate the glory of the salvation extended to us. Pastor Merigala initiates this profound meditation with a vivid geographical analogy, contrasting the majestic heights of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the continental United States, with the terrifying lowlands of Death Valley, a mere eighty miles distant - the lowest and hottest spot in the land. This stark opposition - the top of the world looking down versus the bottom looking only up, the perpetually cool versus the relentlessly hot - serves as the perf...