Preparing For The Lord's Day What do you do with your guilt? Whether you are a Christian or not you understand what I mean when I ask about guilt. Guilt is a universal human experience. We have all come to a place in our lives when we feel the weight of wrongdoing. Maybe we have lied to get out of trouble, or we have spoken hurtful words to a spouse or a child. Maybe we h...
Keep Reading Preparing For The Lord's Day When we come to Psalm 125 we are reminded of two fundamental truths. 1) The world is a dangerous place. 2) The Lord is a sure place of refuge. Inherent in life is risk. When you open your front door and venture out into the world there are no guarantees that you will return unharmed. Accidents, disease, and violence are a real part of this wor...
Keep Reading Preparing for the Lord's Day How are we to understand what God is saying to us in a world that is so crowded with noise and distractions? In the midst of our mixed up and confusing circumstances how are we to listen to God's voice? We are living in a time of great uncertainty. It is difficult to know whose advice to follow and how to make sense of it all. There are days w...
Keep Reading Preparing for the Lord's Day Augustine famously said, "our hearts are restless until they find their rest in God." We are creatures who long for satisfaction. We have been created with a desire to be fulfilled, an itch that needs to be scratched, a thirst to be quenched. However, we pursue our longing in all the wrong things. In Psalm 84 we find that the longing we experi...
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