Trusting God When He Seems Behind
Ten years ago, I was working at a job I thought was meaningless. I was twenty-three, engaged, and hoping to enter pastoral ministry. The Lord led me to become a member of a healthy church in my college town. I aspired to be a pastor but wanted to serve faithfully as a church member while […]
Student Ministry and Psalm 139
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. (Psalm 139:14) Psalm 139 ought to impress the weight and wonder of God upon your soul. In light of this psalm, churches should in turn feel the weight and wonder of their ministry […]
Praying Psalm 62 with Charles Spurgeon
Series: Growing in Prayer
“If God is real, I’m sure He’s too busy to care about the details of my life.” A friend said this to me years ago with exasperation and resignation in his voice. Perhaps you’ve heard some version of this yourself. Maybe you’ve even heard it inside the church. “You should only pray for really big […]
My Cup Overflows
Because of Christ, your cup is not empty. God pours favor into your cup. It is not just a sip. God fills our cups to the brim.
We Will Out-Sing the Enemy
Our song is truer and better.
Preaching the Psalms to Ourselves
The book of Psalms shows us not only how to do to right theology, but also how good theology should lead us to worship and right living before the Lord.
The Shape of Gospel Astonishment in Psalm 24
Who is this King of glory?
How Great is Your God?
When we consider the height and transcendence of God, the questions that present themselves are: Can we even know this God? Can He desire to know us?
5 Steps of Repentance
The importance of repentance is hard to overstate.
Trust God For How Long?
Unfortunately, we live in the very present world and waiting is hard. Joining David,
we cry out with the familiar refrain of ‘how long?’