This is the start of a new Christ in the Old Testament series. The Bible is a whole, one story, all of it pointing to one person: Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world. So, it is no wonder that we see the Old Testament and the New point forward or backward to him. This series will look at specifically how the Bible looks forward to Jesus. We will begin this week with Jesus' own words, as he teaches Nicodemus precisely how this works. Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on August 17th, 2025 to learn more.

We are looking at Psalm 30 today. The heading says that it’s for the dedication of the temple. But there is much more to the story. The background begins in 1 Chronicles 20. 

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on August 10th, 2025 to learn more.

Sometimes the Scriptures are to be studied, the way you study for a class. But there are other times when we are not to so much study but INHABIT a text. We are to let it swirl around us, capture our imaginations, and let it take us to the heavens or a foreign land that we’ve never known. 

Such is Psalm 29 - it’s not here for us to completely get our arms around it, but to let it take us to a place and a perspective we’ve never known before.

Because we NEED this. We are so very self-bound. We need God to lift us out of ourselves to see the world as it is, which is not the same thing as seeing the world as we know it, leaning on our own understanding. 

We can break this Psalm down into three simple parts: The

-      Worship of God

-      Voice of God

-      Sovereignty of God

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on August 3rd, 2025 to learn more.

Many times, our greatest enemy as believers is ourselves. Fredrick Nietzsche made these words famous. He was a pagan, but all truth is God's truth, so even pagans can speak truth. Faith is faith when it is hard to trust. But when it is hard to trust, we often work against ourselves in letting our minds move to complete submission and trust in God.

We all face fear, because we all have enemies. These enemies come in three flavors: the world, our flesh and the devil enemies from this world, in the form of temptations, and disasters and people who hate us; our own flesh, in the form of wrong desires and illness and weakness; and spiritual powers directly, in the form of the devil and his servants.

This enmity did not start with communism or Darwinism or Islam. It started in the Garden, with Eve and the dragon.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on July 20th, 2025 to learn more.

We don’t know the occasion, but we can make educated guesses. The end of Judges - which was when David was born - records for us that the people of Israel had become no different in their sin than Sodom and Gomorrah.

Thus David’s life was not that different from Lot’s - they were both surrounded on all sides by really wicked people. Not just the nations - the Jews themselves. But David was a man after GOD’s own heart, which put him at enmity with those people, for his entire life. David had lots of enemies. God’s people have LOTS of enemies. To ignore this is to disbelieve the eyes in our heads.

So David calls out to GOD for vindication.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on July 13th, 2025 to learn more.

Can a Christian be PATRIOTIC? For many today, the answer is NO. But if so, SHOULD a Christian be patriotic? And if that’s true, then what should that patriotism LOOK like? 

These are the questions I want to answer from Scripture today. 

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on July 6, 2025 to learn more.

This Psalm is very hard to outline. It’s all over the place - one second David asks God to protect him from his enemies; the next he is asking God to forgive him his sin; the next he is asking God to protect him, because of his integrity.

The reason for this is that this Psalm is HUMAN. There really was a David. He really was hounded by treacherous enemies who really wanted to kill him and his family and wipe his name off the face of the earth. David really was a big fat sinner. AND David really was a man after God’s own heart.

In other words, David was a human being, with strengths and weaknesses, sins and successes, in a fallen world. Like us. And he needed God for ALL of it, like us. Not just one part of his life. He needed God, for God’s sake. He needed God because of his enemies out there. And he needed God for the enemy within. Like us.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on June 29, 2025 to learn more.

This is the riddle that every religion throughout all time has tried to answer. A riddle SOLVED by the psalm in front of us today. Who can stand before God, accepted, welcomed, approved? Verse 4 He who is two things: RIGHTEOUS and TRUE.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Jed’s sermon on June 22, 2025 to learn more.

All that we need we have in Jesus Christ. A deeper look at the 23rd Psalm.

Listen to this episode from Pastor Mike’s sermon on June 15th, 2025 to learn more.