Psalms - Praises in Our Days

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.

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.

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.

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.

God's Sovereignty

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

God's Sovereignty