When fear turns fierce and foundations feel destroyed, the counsel comes easy: flee like a bird to your mountain. In Psalm 11 David meets that advice head-on, asking how anyone can say it to his soul when he already takes refuge in the Lord.
Join Pastor Tim at 7 pm (Central) as we wrap up “Growing” by looking at the hope we have as we look towards God’s promises being fulfilled in the future.
Temptations appear in seasons. How does JesusR17;s temptation in the wilderness help us better understand how we prepare for those seasons?
Pastor Tim begins our new series, “Follow Me.̶1; God calls us to follow Him. The best part? As we follow him, we learn more about the one whom we follow.
In the Book of Ruth, Boaz finds a vulnerable widow gleaning in his field and he has to decide if heR17;ll do more than what the law requires. We, like Boaz have to answer the question Will love dictate we give more than the bare minimum? ThatR17;s much easier to tell others to do than for us to do ourselves.
WeR17;ve all tried to manage our relationship with God on our own terms—keeping up appearances, going through the motions, assuming good effort is good enough. Isaiah 1:18 cuts through that with a direct invitation: “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord̶1;—and the question it presses is whether weR17;ll actually stop and think about what heR17;s offering.
Pastor Tim continues our series “Follow Me̶1; thinking about our calling to godliness, what that has to do with legalism and, maybe, even a little discussion of ballpark nachos. WeR17;ll sort it all out by going to James 1:21-25.
As we wrap up “Follow Me,̶1; Pastor Tim takes into 1 John 4:9-12 to consider what it looks like to follow Jesus into brotherly affection and love.
Have you ever spoken boldly about your faith, only to find yourself later asking if any of it is real? Even John the Baptist, who once pointed everyone to Jesus as the promised one, sends messengers in Luke 7 to ask, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?̶1;
As Pastor Tim begins our new series on the six poisons listed in Proverbs 6:16-19, we turn to one that often leads to the others: pride.