Sermons

Deep trust grows from relying on God in the not-so-pleasant times. We want to rely on God in those times to rescue us from the unpleasantness. Sometimes that may happen, sometimes it may not. But to rely on God when you can’t see how to dig yourself out of a hole, or you don’t know when

Psalm 42 is a song of lamentation that expresses a deep desire to belong. Deep calls to deep, and we all have a desire to belong, to be united with the God of our making. With the events in Orlando fresh on our minds, we have to ask ourselves what we mean when we say God’s love is for

Sin, transgression, iniquity: These things we carry in our hearts as memories of past or current actions and choices. Though they are intangible, they are extremely heavy and hard to carry around. They weigh us down and we expend a lot of energy trying to keep them quiet, in the dark.

Names, the ones we’re given and the ones we give ourselves, are important because they identify us. They are a part of us. Maybe you’ve been internalizing, taking on some life-taking, wound-inflicting names—old, slow, stupid, failure, fat, ugly, failure, drug addict, worthless. In the