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.

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.

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.

Scripture is sufficient for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3). Our Reformed Confessional tradition is clear that all things necessary to glorify and enjoy God are taught in Holy Scripture, either directly or through good and necessary consequence. The Holy Scriptures are the foundation of life and ministry.

President’s Chapel Fall 2024

This Psalm teaches us about life’s travails, and that Israel fails, but that Christ prevails.

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.

Change is unavoidable but how we change should follow God’s design for change.

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.

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.

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.

Lamentations articulates some of the worst human suffering. In response, a prayer for the Lord’s restoration is made.

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

We will see how wisdom holds the secret to being truly alive in every generation.

Why do we conceal our sins rather than confess them, especially when they imprison and distance us from God’s presence and his people? We’ll consider the folly of this approach to the Christian life and the liberating joys of confession flowing from our faith in the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

God, according to His sovereign will, works all things together for the good of the believer. Not some things or most things, but ALL things … even our thorny trials and hardships.

From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.

When you are going through suffering, what is your relationship with God like? When your friends or family are suffering, how do you comfort them? Job tells us that God has the answer to our suffering, and how we are to look to Him during those times.

Even though our praise cannot actually make God greater or higher than He is, the Lord is pleased for our praise to exalt Him in our minds and hearts.