Please click here to listen to Pastor David's sermon,"The LORD who Keeps," from Psalm 121....

"And those who know your name put their trust in you" (Psalm 9:10) Shakespeare once asked, "What's in a name?" In our culture, names are chosen because we like the way a name sounds or because it has family ties, but less often due to their meanings. That's not how it was with the Hebrews. In their culture, names took on great significance. In fact, names often served as ...

Most of us don't want to think about or discuss our deaths. Yet we know that, unless the Lord returns, our bodies must die in order for us to be ushered into the presence of our Savior.Lou Priolo has written a helpful article posing the most common fears about death and how to deal with them biblically....

The 18th century was a season of hymn-writing greatness with the likes of Wesley, Watts, Newton, and Cowper. But there was another English author whom the Lord gave as a gift to the church with her poetic skills, Anne Steele. Anne, the daughter of a Baptist minister in Broughton, struggled with poor health. However, her afflictions bore fruit in her beautiful reflections o...

Calamity compels us to take a fresh look at how we think and what we believe. Please read this article byMichael J. Kruger, which challenges us to face COVID-19 with a biblical worldview....

"Casting all your anxieties on him because he cares for you." 1 Peter 5:7 The Apostle Peter wrote these words to a struggling church. In addition to the difficulties of living in the first centuryplagues, barbarians, and recessionsbelievers also were being persecuted. Their anxieties were many. In the face of trying times and uncertain futures, what does Peter tell them t...

Click here to listen to Pastor David's sermon,"Plagues and Providence," from Amos 3:1-6 and Hebrews 12:5-6....

"The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble." (Psalm 9:9 - Part 2) In our previous meditation, without specifying so, we answered two questions about this verse: (1) How do we understand the character/work of the LORD? He's a stronghold; and (2) For whom is he a stronghold? He is a stronghold, a fortress, an unceasing, impenetrable, high ...

"The LORD is a stronghold for the oppressed...."(Psalm 9:9) As David passed through a multitude of messy situations, the LORD used the furnace of affliction to refine his servant. Chiefly, David learned the trustworthiness of the LORD when the vice of trouble squeezed him. What is the LORDYahweh, the covenant-keeping, ever-faithful, never-changing, omnipresent Godlike in ...

Here is the link to Pastor David's sermon, "The Servants Sealed," from Revelation 7:1-12. May God feed and encourage us from His Word....