Providence Community Church

06/13/2026

First Praise in the Park of 2026, which will be held at Jacobson Park, Shelter #4, at 10:30am this Sunday! We will have our worship service, followed by lunch together. Please note if there are storms, we will make an announcement with alternative plans. We can't wait to worship with you!

06/04/2026

“The gift of song—directed to God or recited about him—also unites us to the invisible church, the gathering of God’s people through the ages. Christians have sung throughout our history, from inspired psalms of the Old Testament to the most recent quarantine-composed lyric. We are exhorted to formulate new songs with skill and sing them at full volume (Psalm 33:3), even in public places (Psalm 149:1). But it may perhaps be the older ones that unite us more experientially to the church across space and time; after all, history has preserved the most worthy home-run compositions, and let the foul balls roll behind the bleachers. In the hymns that remain, I am occasionally overwhelmed to imagine prior generations, long since home, drawing upon the same lyrics for the same purposes. “

Going back through six years of the blog. Here's a very early one: https://www.ornitheology.com/post/wrens

05/24/2026

"Paul's immediate goal in ministry was not revolutionary change of the social order: it was preaching and teaching the gospel for the sake of establishing enclaves of Christian believers and thereby ultimately redeeming the world." (Robert Yarbrough)

05/24/2026

Providence Community Church in Lexington, KY
Sunday Morning Worship Service at 10:30am ET
Pastor Paul Valentine

05/10/2026

"Human beings will only rule the world as God intended when they triumph over death. But Jesus is the only human being who reigns over death by virtue of His suffering. The rest of humanity will only share in that victory if they belong to Jesus."
(Tom Schreiner)

05/10/2026

"How often children tell us of a God whom we have forgotten! How does their simple prattle refute those learned fools who deny the being of God. Many men have been made to hold their tongues, while sucklings have borne witness to the glory of the God of heaven!”
(C.H. Spurgeon)

05/10/2026

"This Psalm is an unsurpassed example of what a hymn should be, celebrating as it does the glory and grace of God, rehearsing who he is and what he has done, and relating us and our world to him; all in a spirit of mingled joy and awe."
(Derek Kidner)

05/03/2026

"It is a sacred trust to be in the ministry. That trust is based upon a man's integrity, credibility, and the consistent purity of his life. If he can be successfully attacked at that point and discredited, his ministry will be destroyed. It is imperative that his people be able to distinguish gossip and lies from reality."
(John MacArthur)

04/19/2026

"The minister of God's word must always be sitting under the word that he teaches, growing in his understanding and conformity to its message, and modeling the way we are to make progress under its instruction."
(Phillip Jensen)