May 21, 2017
And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. ACTS 2:47 This verse is a bit unsettling, isn’t it? Intimidating even. Who ever heard of such a church nowadays? It does remind us...
View ArticleMay 28, 2017
The Psalter is a book of prayers rather than a prayer book. Its words leap to the page from the heart of man, racked by pain, jubilant with joy, despairing, aspiring, questioning, worshiping, but never...
View ArticleSunday, May 28, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 16
The Psalter is a book of prayers rather than a prayer book. Its words leap to the page from the heart of man, racked by pain, jubilant with joy, despairing, aspiring, questioning, worshiping, but never...
View ArticleSunday, June 4, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 145
Last Sunday, Jackson Randall led us through the importance of the Psalms in growing into a God-centered life. The Psalms teach us to deal with our human emotions, teach us to pray and bring everything...
View ArticleSunday, June 11, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 1
And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed… blessed… blessed…” Matthew 5:2 and following Psalm 1 is considered an introduction to the Book of Psalms. Charles Spurgeon calls it the...
View ArticleSunday, June 18, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 27
This past week, Randall Gruendyke led us to examine our lives in view of the standard set out in Psalm 1. Are we the blessed man who lives every moment delighting in and meditating on God’s law?...
View ArticleSunday, June 25, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 19
“Prayer is answering speech. God’s Word has not done its complete work until it evokes an answer from us. All our answers are prayers. The Psalms train us in this answering speech, this language that...
View ArticleSunday, July 2, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 51
Last week, Erik Thoennes led us through Psalm 19, which C. S. Lewis considered the “greatest poem in the Psalter.” In Psalm 19, the psalmist expresses his wonder and delight in the revelation of God to...
View ArticleSunday, July 9, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 122
Last week, Erik Thoennes exhorted us to a deep sense of godly sorrow over our sin. He showed us in Psalm 51 a model of agreeing with God about the depth, extent and awfulness of our sin. This godly...
View ArticleSunday, July 16, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 2
This past week, Randall Gruendyke helped us understand from Psalm 122 that it has always been God’s purpose to gather His people together in one particular place under His rule. In Eden, in the City of...
View ArticleSunday, July 23, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 63
What glories we have glimpsed this summer in the Psalms! We have marveled at the portrait of the Perfect Man in Psalm 1. We looked at how God has revealed Himself to man and man’s correct response to...
View ArticleSunday, July 30, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 46
This past week, Don Allen took us through Psalm 63. This psalm is a hymn by a soul earnestly seeking God, his greatest desire. Don pointed out the many reasons David yearned for God and why those...
View ArticleSunday, August 6, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 71
This summer in the Psalms we have seen marvelous portraits of our great God and Savior as penned by men of true faith. Many of the psalms we have looked at were descriptive of personal faith in God....
View ArticleSunday, August 13, 2017 Sermon Prep for Psalm 139
We are nearing the end of our summer in the Psalms. This past week, Kenny Clark took us through Psalm 71. David wrote this psalm as an old man. He was again facing enemies, unjust criticism, even...
View ArticleSunday August 20, 2017 Summer Psalm Series—Recap
Be to me a rock of refuge, to which I may continually come. Psalm 71:3b This summer we have focused on the book of Psalms. The series is titled In the Shadow of the Rock. The Psalms teach us to seek...
View ArticleAugust 27, 2017
As we say “goodbye” to the Psalms and re-enter the world of Genesis, a reading service this Sunday will introduce to us Abraham, the father of our faith, and the grandest of adventures that God leads...
View ArticleSeptember 3, 2017
The Lord had said to Abram, “Go…so Abram went as the Lord told him.” GENESIS 12:1, 4 In between that “go” of God, and Abraham’s response of obedience, stands the grandest promise ever made to a human...
View ArticleSeptember 10, 2017
Now there was a famine in the land… GENESIS 12:10 Uh oh… With God’s words of blessing still ringing in his ears, Abram suddenly had reason to wonder about this “land of promise.” A famine? He had...
View ArticleSeptember 17, 2017
Lot chose for himself… GENESIS 13:11 Last week we saw the selfish side of Abram as he followed his natural instinct, carelessly putting his wife Sarai at risk, ending in a harsh rebuke and banishment...
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