Teaching Pastor: David Johnson, Lead Teaching Pastor | www.thedoor.org

The mountains were the site of altars and shrines where the Jews would sometimes stray from worship of Jehovah, instead offering sacrifices to counterfeit gods to try to ward off war, famine, and disease. We're no different – we can tend to “head for the hills” and our own counterfeit gods at the smallest threat of discomfort or disapproval. But the psalmist emphatically declares that God’s invitation is to be anchored in the reality that “my help comes from the LORD, the maker of heaven and earth.”