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The Good Life Under The Good Shepherd
Lord Jesus, we come before you this evening open, needing to hear your word, needing to see you as our good shepherd, Lord. And so, we need you to feed us. We need you to lead us. We need you to guide us and protect us, Lord. We need your life within us, your word…
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My Helps Come from the Lord
I invite you to turn with me in your Bibles tonight to Psalm 121. Psalm 121. As – if you’re a member of the church, you know; if you’re a visitor, we’ll let you know that we are in the evenings going through what we call pastoral favorites. So, our pastors are picking passages of…
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Lament, Light, Laughter
So, a few moments ago, you sang, “Full of kindness and compassion, slow to anger, vast in love, God is good to all creation. All his works his goodness prove.” And then a moment ago you sang, “Swift to its close ebbs out life’s little day. Earth’s joys grow dim; its glories pass away, change…
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Sacrifice
Good evening. Turn in your Bibles to Psalm 50. Psalm 50. As you turn there let me pray once more for our time. Heavenly Father, unless your Holy Spirit accompanies the preaching of your Word to give it its affect it will be to us a dead letter. The letter kills, but the spirit gives…
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God Has Made Him Both Lord and Christ
Our great God and King, we do ask once again for your help that we would have ears to hear that you would work deep within us what you have for us by your Word and by your spirit. For all the things we may have done in the past week, things we’ve seen, ways…
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The Pain of Betrayal
Gracious heavenly Father, what a sweet precious thing we have just sung, “Christ is Mine Forevermore.” Forgive us when this declaration rests on us lightly, we pray that we may so live and feel and move and have our being that this would be our great hope that we belong to Christ and He is…
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With God We Shall Do Valiantly
Lord, we come to you now as we turn to your Word, not merely because of custom and habit thinking that sermons begin with prayers, but because we need you, I need you to preach your Word thankfully, humbly, powerfully with unction from your spirit and we need your help that we might listen, that…
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Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So
I was thinking what to do for four weeks here in June before, Lord willing, get to a usual break that church so graciously gives to me and my family in July. We’ll be, Lord willing, going out to Colorado for a week during that time and seeing Trish’s family out there. We haven’t all…
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From Envy to Eternity: Having Faith in a World that Doesn’t Make Sense
Holy God, we are grateful that we can gather here with great freedom to make much of you, to open up your Word, and we do pray in the name of Jesus that you would allow we to decrease and you increase, that your Word would go forth and you would change lives for your…
