Covenant Presbyterian - Russellville, AR, PCA

Welcome!

Your interest in Covenant Presbyterian Church is an encouragement to us. We have prepared this website to offer you a glimpse of who we are. We trust that the next step for you will be to visit us this Sunday.

You will find us to be a loving and enthusiastic family of believers from diverse backgrounds representing every age group. The good news in Jesus Christ of salvation by grace through faith is at the center of who we are and what we do. We are pursuing a Christian experience of glorifying God and enjoying Him forever. It is a learning experience based on the Scriptures and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

We are following the path of faith and the doctrines of grace rediscovered during the Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century. You will find that the preaching is Biblical and Reformed.

As you listen to the messages delivered in the church you will find that our Pastor gives an exposition of a passage from the Bible. He will seek to unfold the meaning of the passage according to the intention of the Biblical author who we believe was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Each Biblical author wrote to a community of God’s people in his day. Therefore, The authors were addressing real people who were facing spiritual life issues true to the human drama of life. Though they wrote thousands of years ago, they were addressing timeless spiritual life issues with truth from the mind of God. What they originally wrote will not fail us and is completely accurate. The task of the preacher is to first explain the Biblical text according to the life context of the original author and his audience. Then, application is made from the text to our modern day life setting.

We identify with a line of preaching that dates back to the time of Protestant Reformation of the 16^th and 17^th centuries. At the time, men such as Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Owen, Thomas Watson, and many others sought to reform the church so that it would conform more and more to the gospel of the grace of God (Acts 20:24). They sought to restore the Biblical emphasis upon the good pleasure of God that takes the initiative to bring to life sinners by power of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God, enabling them to believe in the atoning sacrificial work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross unto eternal life. This divine work in salvation is all the gift of God (Ephesians 2:8-9).

These men were historically called the Reformers and their understanding of the Bible was called Reformed. Through the years such men as George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, B.B. Warfield, J.Gresham Machen, J.I. Packer, and James Montgomery Boice have continued this tradition of doctrine and preaching. We identify with this tradition and seek to fulfill the motto, Reformed and Reforming to Word of God.

We invite you to join us for the worship service this Sunday where you will hear a sermon from the Word of God. You can listen to previous sermons here at our website by clicking the Sermon Audio icon on the left. It is our desire to grow in grace and the knowledge of the Lord with you.