Read: Psalm 19 Read: Matthew 6:16-34 One of my favorite things to do is go camping. There are several aspects that are particularly enjoyable for me. First, I love to be in nature and just appreciate all of the wonder of God’s creation. Secondly, it’s important to just stop and look around every once in […]
When the Nations Rage | Psalm 2
Read: Psalm 2 Read: Revelation 5 I think it is safe to say that, as a result of a confluence of crises, tensions are high. Really high. There seems to be a collective concern with what is happening globally. It’s no wonder that there are riots on the streets. The surface tension has broken. You […]
How Long, Oh Lord?: The Expectation Of Hope By Micah Lovell
For thousands of years, the book of Psalms has been one of the go-to locations for Christians in times of crisis. The ancients lived extremely difficult lives, enduring hardships that we take for granted in the modern day. But those of us living in the 21st century still endure hardships, though of a much different […]
The Righteous Prosper by Adam Miller
Read: Psalm 1 Read: Matthew 5:1-16 Someone once said that if a picture paints a thousand words, then a poem paints a thousand pictures. When we add music to poetry and imagery, it makes it stick inside our soul. Have you ever been driving down the road, listening to the radio, and you hear a […]
Getting Back to a Heart of Worship by Adam Miller
The world has changed. How could it not? So many things have happened in such a short period of time. No one could have predicted the strange events if they had all happened in isolation from each other, but they all came at us at once and with such a force that knocked us off […]
The Psalms Move Us
Any piece of literature that has been cultivated, preserved, read and re-read, chanted, sung, said aloud and in quiet, taught, studied, memorized and proclaimed for millennia is worthy of the status of classic. But that word seems too mild for the book of Psalms. The Psalms are expansive, reflecting the nearly 1000 year period […]
Fellowship with God: Believing in the Son
Read: I John 5:1-21 Read: Galatians 5:13-6:6 There are so many problems facing our world today. That might just be the greatest understatement of 2020. I’d wager that nobody imagined how bad things were going to get, and we haven’t even made it to the election in November yet. All I can say is, brace […]
Fellowship with God: Loving One Another
Read: I John 4:11-5:5 Read: John 3:1-21 Imagine you’re driving on the road to get something to eat, you see an ice cream shop and you think to yourself, “I’m going to have to come back to that after dinner.” You could stop and get your dessert first, there’s no judgement here, but it’s probably […]
10 Unforgettable Lessons on Fatherhood by Ray Ortlund Jr.
In public, my dad was one of the great pastors of his generation. In private, my dad was the same man. There was only one Ray Ortlund, Sr. — an authentic Christian man. The distance between what I saw in the New Testament and what I saw in my dad was slight. He was the […]
Fellowship with God: Keeping His Commandments
Read: I John 3:11-4:6 Also Read: Genesis 1:1-5; 4:1-16 From the very beginning there has been a struggle between good and evil. In the creation order, there is an intentional distinction made between the light and the darkness. The first two verses of Genesis are describing a world without light. It is not neutral, as […]
Fellowship with God: Abiding in Christ | by Adam Miller
Read: I John 2:3-3:10 Extra Reading: John 15 Humanity is tribal by nature. We are divided over race, nations, politics, and countless other things. This is not a new problem. It has existed since shortly after the beginning. And, as we will see next week, the root cause of our discord is not the color […]
Fellowship with God: Walk in the Light by Adam Miller
Read: I John 1:1-2:2 Have you ever felt like God was distant? Maybe you had felt particularly close to Him at one point or another, but there have also been moments where He seemed so far away. There is an old illustration that compares God with the sun. We can feel its presence during a […]