Buck Grove Community Church

04/03/2026

Come join us in celebrating the resurrection this Easter Sunday! Note our morning service time change; see you then!

01/25/2026

Affirmations and Transformations
Titus 3:1-11

3 of our Marching Orders
1.) Affirm the flock and others of Reality
2.) Let Reality Transform Us. (Romans 12:1-8)
3.) Affirm the Truth and be Transformed.

May God continue to bless you!
It has been a pleasure to serve the Lord and to serve you in my last 4 years. As God has given me another mission field, please know that He loves you dearly and that this next season will be a glorious one if we choose to be faithful.
May you be blessed with wisdom and guidance as we turn towards our Father who art in Heaven.
- Pastor Joshua Zoppa

11/09/2025

10/27/2025

"All things have been delivered to Me by My Father, and no one knows who the Son is except the Father, and who the Father is except the Son, and the one to whom the Son wills to reveal Him.”
Then He turned to His disciples and said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things you see;
For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see what you see, and have not seen it, and to hear what you hear, and have not heard it.”
Luke 10:22-24

What a blessing it is to know that our faith in Christ is never in vain!
What else is there to look for? What other comfort is there?

Your sins are forgiven, and as Jesus said to the woman caught in adultery, "Go and sin no more."
Yet to live in sin is to walk contrary to Christ and the cross!
Come to Jesus today!
Follow the Holy Spirit within God's Holy Church!
And rejoice that your sins are forgiven, yet work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
God be praised!

09/23/2025

Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life! There is no name under heaven in which man can be saved.
For we are all sinners worthy of condemnation because of our sins, but we have been loved by the one who created us.
Come to Jesus today!

09/09/2025

"Don't worry about the wicked or envy those who do wrong.
For like grass, they soon fade away. Like spring flowers, they soon wither.
Trust in the Lord and do good. Then you will live safely in the land and prosper.
Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you your heart's desires.
Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you."
- Psalm 37:1-5

Our eyes wander, our attention is drawn elsewhere, yet what good can come when we lose sight of what the Lord purposed us for?
Man fades away as the grass, and yet that short time period we are alive on earth God blesses and loves us. Although death is not the end, we are called to life more abundantly (John 10:10).
Trust in the Lord, Take delight in the Lord, Commit everything to Him; the scriptures teach....
Where is your trust?
What is your delight?
What are you committing your life/ways to?

Do not forsake our loving God, for great is our Lord, the one in which we place our trust.
No matter the situation, the confusion, the struggle, God is there in the midst loving and giving life in ways we do not fully comprehend.
Glory be to the Father!

07/14/2025

"My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge."
-Proverbs 5:1-2

Wisdom can only come from God, and God can use foolish things to teach it!
Wisdom is not some mere knowledge, a good saying, or a lesson, the bible shows throughout proverbs that wisdom is "abundant life" and the "true life" that God created us all to experience. For this same reason, Jesus spoke in parables, to make foolish the wisdom of the wise, and to reveal the blindness that the "wise" had.
Wisdom keep discretion and by wisdom, your words will carry knowledge.
Where are you getting wisdom from?
Is it even true wisdom?
May God direct your thoughts and intentions in this time!

07/08/2025

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07/07/2025

"Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you."
Isaiah 49:15

God will never forget you!
People may sin, people may kill, people may forget, but God will never forget His people nor His creation.
This is who our God is, do not forget the great love of our Father given to all of creation!
Praise be to the Lord!

06/30/2025

"My joy is gone; grief is upon me; my heart is sick within me. Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people from the length and breadth of the land: "Is the LORD not in Zion? Is her King not in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images and with their foreign idols?" The harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved. For the wound of the daughter of my people is my heart wounded; I mourn, and dismay has taken hold on me."
Jeremiah 8:18-21

When we look around at our world, one cannot help but mourn what humanity has become. Sin after sin, we have fallen into a great darkness that consumes our minds and clouds our love. Mankind makes idols of foolish things that were never created to be worshipped, and we all profane our minds with rubbish that is not even profitable to the wisest of us!
What are we to do?
Hide in cave and wait?
No, let the reality of this world cause you to lament and pray!
Sadness has a purpose, and if we seek to stifle its purpose we lose a powerful driving force that pulls us from the delusion of darkness, constant "fake" happiness.
Now, I do not mean to state that happiness is evil, for even our Father in Heaven rejoices over things we do, but rather that we must embrace the strength in sadness and lamenting and draw close to God.
What are you doing with the reality of this darkened world?
What opens your eyes to the need for God?
Turn to Christ, and be changed for we have been saved by the redeeming work of God!
God Bless you!