March 11, 2025
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Rev. Derek Rishmawy brings us a message from Exodus 4:10-17.
March 6, 2025
Trials and sufferings convince us that God has abandoned us, but Psalm 46 reminds us that God is with us and for us, even when it feels like everything and everyone is against us.
March 4, 2025
The glory of the gospel is that Jesus came into the world to save great sinners like you and me. In yet another act of overflowing mercy, he chooses to use us to display his grace to the world.
February 27, 2025
February 25, 2025
While all agree that progressive sanctification is important but does the Scripture view progress the same way we do? Is growth in the Christian life an acquisition of more strength or is it reckoning with our weakness? This devotion hopes to wrestle with the strength of weakness in the Christian life.
February 22, 2025
February 18, 2025
If you are a faithful pastor you will suffer rejection. But as you persevere in serving others with God’s power, truth and love, like Jesus, you win by losing.
February 14, 2025
Psalm 119 provides an extended insight into the psalmist’s spiritual experience as a suffering sojourner looking ahead to God’s mysterious but sure deliverance.
February 11, 2025
Any preacher today could be tempted to regard his main obstacle as a modern one, namely the incredulity and cynicism of a secularist world. Be there is an ancient one as well—the recurring doubts of God’s people in the supernatural world. Preachers have long served as God’s agents to help those who struggle to walk by faith and not by sight, and continue to look to the things that are unseen, which are eternal. 2 Kings 6:8-23 reveals an example of God’s prophet being used to open the eyes of others in order to see what is truly real.
December 5, 2024
President’s Chapel Fall 2024
December 3, 2024
This Psalm teaches us about life’s travails, and that Israel fails, but that Christ prevails.
November 26, 2024
November 21, 2024
In Jesus’ encounter with two people in great need we are reminded that God’s ways are not our ways; and that God’s ways are always better.
November 19, 2024
Change is unavoidable but how we change should follow God’s design for change.
November 14, 2024
David has two problems. There is David’s sin and there is David’s self. He faces his guilt as well as his guilty feelings. His repentance finds its voice, as does his faith, in the hope that God’s grace is sufficient for both his problems.
November 12, 2024
What it means to be a saint, in Christ Jesus, and the joy, freedom, and security that comes with knowing God as our Father and Christ as our Lord.
November 7, 2024
Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering. However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.
November 5, 2024
Lamentations articulates some of the worst human suffering. In response, a prayer for the Lord’s restoration is made.
October 31, 2024
When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.
October 29, 2024
We will see how wisdom holds the secret to being truly alive in every generation.