Divine Contentment:
Satisfaction with God’s Providence
Sunday School: Sept 2024 - May 2025
Overview
Pastor McGrew has begun a series of lessons on Divine Contentment. This page is meant to be a helpful resource for further learning and exploration of the topics discussed, and will be updated (hopefully) weekly!
Collateral Books:
Defeating Discontentment by John MacArthur (Limited copies freely provided by Cornerstone Baptist Church!)
The Art of Divine Contentment by Thomas Watson
Imitation of Christ by Thomas à Kempis
Nov 3: Enough to Live On
Contentment means learning to accept less. Are you willing to let God be God, and accept the circumstances He gives you?
Oct 27: Content Between Two Extremes
Oct 20: The Longing Souls’ Club
One of the most critical errors we have adopted in our culture is that the “pursuit of happiness” will bring about the contentment that our souls long for. What we need is the pursuit of godliness.
Oct 13: Satisfaction with God’s Providence
One of the most critical errors we have adopted in our culture is that the “pursuit of happiness” will bring about the contentment that our souls long for. What we need is the pursuit of godliness.
Oct 6: Satisfied in God’s House
Contentment is the eternal destiny of God’s chosen people. It is God’s plan to bring His adopted children to dwell where He dwells. Believers will dwell eternally as heirs of the King of Kings!
Sept 29: Satisfied with Steadfast Love
“The world is diseased with discontent, and Christians are often infected.”
“A satisfied heart should be the experience of every believer because God promises to satisfy us with everything we need.”
“Contentment is a believing response to the Word of God, and the promises therein.”
Our mindset should be, “I am content with what God has brought about in my life. I don’t want anything different. I don’t want anything more than what He wants to give me.”
Sept 22: Full but Forgetful
Uncertainty in a godless society can cause discontentment. Discontentment can lead through anxiety, through fear, until ultimately it can cause the loss of our joy as believers. But the truth we must hold to is this: God alone satisfies the human heart.
Sept 15: Filled with Bread
satisfied — שָׂבַע [saw-bah’] (to be sated, be satisfied with, be fulfilled, be filled, have one's fill of, desire satiated; to have in excess, be surfeited, be surfeited with; to be weary of [fig] )
Sept 8: A Willing Sojourner
content — יָאַל [yaw-al’] (willing; to undertake; to be pleased to begin; agreement; acquiescence; to undertake; to resolve…)