MAR 23, 2025

A Psalm in My Soul: God is My Strength and My Portion Forever

Psalm 73. In this psalm, we find Asaph who is one of God’s priests in Israel, in a low spot in his faith as he looks over at the other side, at the unrighteous, and begins to think their grass looks greener, and he almost walks away from his faith. Have you ever been there? Have you ever been through a time when life just has you fed up and beat down? You’ve devoted yourself to God, but it seems like you take one step forward and two steps back, and you’ve begun to wonder if living for God is even worth it. But, Asaph thought about where his path would end and where their path would end. And that’s what he needed to remember.

MAR 16, 2025

A Psalm in My Soul: Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God

Psalm 51. King David was in a terrible mess. He had done some awful things. Psalm 51 is the prayer David prayed to God after he had come face to face with the darkness and ugliness of his sin. To some degree, all of us can relate to David because we’ve all sinned and have seen its effects in our own life and in the lives of others. We’ve seen the destruction and ugliness of sin, and we’ve longed for God’s grace and mercy to make us clean. And all that David prayed and longed for, God’s grace and mercy, his forgiveness and love, find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.

MAR 09, 2025

A Psalm in My Soul: The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked

Psalm 1. Psalm 1 is a gateway into the whole book. It sets the stage for everything else by telling us that anyone who genuinely wants to live for God must embrace his word. It shows us that God’s way is best and leads to eternal life. You can’t walk down two roads at the same time. This opening psalm gives us a choice to make about our lives that determines everything else about our lives.

MAR 02, 2025

Cheerful Giving

2 Corinthians 9:6-15. In verse 7, Paul tells us something that God loves. He loves a cheerful giver. Paul teaches that Christians are to give generously from the heart knowing that our giving is an act of worship to God for the indescribable gift of Jesus and salvation.

FEB 23, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Need for the Church

2 Corinthians 5:10-21. We don’t always really need the things we think we do. More often they’re wants. Let's think about something that every person in the whole world needs. They may not realize it, and they may not even want it right now, but they need it. And that’s the Lord’s church.

FEB 16, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Hope of the Church

1 Peter 1:3-5. The hope of the church is salvation in heaven. It’s not a hope like we hope ice cream goes on sale, or we hope we make it to the gas station before we run out of gas. It’s a certain and sure confidence, because when we are born again in Christ, we have salvation in him as long as we hold on to our hope.

FEB 09, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Fellowship of the Church

1 John 1:6-7. If you choose to walk in the light and to follow God’s ways, then you continue to have fellowship with God and with one another. You can’t go two directions. You choose every day to walk in the light of God or in the darkness of sin. Additionally, when you choose to stay in the light, to practice God’s truth, then you have the benefit of fellowship with the church and the benefit of continual cleansing from your sins.

FEB 02, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Organization of the Church

Ephesians 4:11-16. If you’ve ever been on a team, had a job, or been in a family, you understand the concept of organization. You understand that there are different roles with different responsibilities within any organization. The Lord’s church is no different. We like to think about the church as a family, and it certainly is. God is our Heavenly Father and has adopted us as his children, but there is a God-given organization to the church. Talking about the organization of the church matters because souls matter. We want people to be added to the Lord’s church, to mature spiritually, and help more people come to know Christ.

JAN 26, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Ministry of the Church

Matthew 5:13-16. Christians do good works in the world around us because we want others to be blessed by those good deeds, to consider why we would do what we do, and turn to look at God.

JAN 19, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Marks of the Church

Acts 2:42-27. The Lord’s church is “undenominational”, meaning it knows nothing of denominations which came after it was established. It is “predenominational”. And that church still exists today if we follow the plain teaching of Scripture. Today we’re looking at the identifying marks of the church. To do so, we turn to the beginning of the church, the earliest days of the Lord’s church to see what they did and how they lived.

JAN 12, 2025

Jesus and His Church: The Owner of the Church

Matthew 16:18. In this series, “Jesus and His Church”, we’re going to look at different subjects related to the church. The first thing we want to examine is to see who owns the church. To whom does it belong? Why is this important for us to know? Because Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and he purchased the church with his own blood that he shed on the cross. And for that reason, we need to be sure to be in the church that Jesus owns. The one that is his, not a church that someone else started, but the one Jesus built.

JAN 05, 2025

A New Year, New You

2 Corinthians 5:17. In this lesson, we look at seven spiritual resolutions for the Christian in 2025 and are encouraged to live as new creations that serve and glorify God.

DEC 29, 2024

The Story of the Bible - Heaven

Revelation 21-22. The church is called here the new city of Jerusalem, the bride of Christ. And it is brought to the new heaven and earth, which will be the new heavenly dwelling place for God's redeemed. This is where God will dwell with his people. We will see God face to face and be in his presence forever. This is the reward of heaven – to be with God.

DEC 22, 2024

The Story of the Bible - Church

Acts 2:1-47. When we think of “church”, we might think of where we’re going on Sunday or Wednesday. We might think about how we have to get up early to go to church on Sunday mornings instead of sleeping in. When I was a kid, I liked seeing my friends and I liked church, but I didn’t like wearing slacks, a button up shirt, dress socks and “church shoes”, and I didn’t like trying to stay awake during the sermon! But church is more than that, isn’t it? Church is more than a place we go to, right?

DEC 15, 2024

The Story of the Bible - Jesus

Matthew 1:1-6. Why is Jesus so important? Why does the OT point to Jesus? How does Jesus fit into the story of the Bible? Matthew’s focus is on Jesus’ royal lineage because he so badly wanted to convince the Jewish people that Jesus from the town of Nazareth was the one the Old Testament promised and was the Christ they had been waiting for. Jesus didn’t come to get rid of the law and the prophets. He came to fulfill them. They both were designed by God to lead us to Jesus. The whole OT pointed to Jesus, and Jesus came to fulfill all the law and the prophets. He was The Anointed One who is prophet, priest, and king for God’s people.