Psalms

Preached the Sunday before Thanksgiving, this exposition of Psalm 2 traces God's righteous anger toward rebellious nations and kings and calls each hearer to personal accountability, since no one will answer for the world's chaos but only

Rebellion Against GodPersonal AccountabilityChrist's Future Reign

Psalm 139, Jeremiah 1, and Proverbs 6 are used to show that life in the womb is God's work and that abortion sheds innocent blood. The message holds together moral clarity, gospel forgiveness, compassion for those who have sinned, and hope

Life in the WombInnocent BloodInfant Salvation

Psalm 24's question of who may ascend the hill of the Lord finds its answer in Christ alone, whose fulfilled righteousness makes believers acceptable worshipers as they serve him from love rather than mere obligation.

Fulfillment in ChristAcceptable WorshipServing From Love

Working through David's distress and his settled security in Psalm 4, this message contrasts the anxiety that trials produce with the deep assurance that comes from a genuine relationship with God.

Anxiety and AssuranceTrials Refine MarriageEvening Devotion

Psalm 3 finishes by showing David resting, praying, waiting, and trusting the Lord's deliverance in the middle of fear. Trouble becomes an invitation to seek God privately, stay in his word, keep praying, and wait for his work.

Persevering PrayerTrusting God's DeliveranceTrials

Psalm 3 begins with David's fear as he flees Absalom, but moves toward trust as he remembers the Lord as shield, glory, and lifter of his head. Trials become occasions for fear to turn into faith through prayer and God's word.

David's Flight from AbsalomFear to FaithTrials

Finishing Psalm 2, this message points to Christ's future reign as King over all nations and kings, and calls hearers gripped by pandemic-era fear to find security not in circumstances but in the certainty that God reigns.

Christ's Future ReignGod's Sovereign RuleAssurance in Crisis

Opening a study of Psalm 2 during the early days of a global pandemic, this message shows how rulers and nations rage against God's rule, and presses the unconverted to see their own rebellion mirrored in the psalm and to turn to Christ in

Rebellion Against GodGod's Sovereign RuleCall to Repentance

Preaching from Psalm 34:1-8, the message traces David's proclamation of praise born out of deliverance from real trouble and calls believers to bless the Lord humbly and continually even in the midst of trials, not only after victory comes.

Joy in SufferingPraise in TrialsHumble Boasting

Recounting a faithful, unseen prayer warrior who never preached a sermon but undergirded decades of ministry, the message calls believers to keep serving in hidden, unapplauded roles within the local church, trusting that God exalts the

Hidden FaithfulnessLove for the ChurchUnseen Service