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August 17, 2025 - As Pastor Aaron Hembree preaches this morning from Psalm 40, we praise, with David, the God whose wondrous deeds are past, present, and future. As our hearts overflow with the many blessings God has given our church, is giving, and will give our church, we Christians ought to declare with David, “I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told.”

August 10, 2025 - In the midst of the deepest seasons of depression, the Scriptures do not leave us alone in even these emotions. As the soul of the believer involuntarily longs for communion God yet laments at the drowning troubles of this life, the psalmist gives the pattern of lament: remind your very soul to hope and praise in God.

July 27, 2025 - Join us as Pastor Aaron Hembree preaches from Psalm 5. The words of David give us a living illustration of what a Christian ought to do in the midst of enemies’ hatred, persecution, and cultural pressure. David gives a plea to be heard, a plea to be led, a plea for justice, and a plea for just reward, each of which can only be granted by our King and our God to those who follow Him in His righteous way.

July 20, 2025 - The final chapter reveals seven marks of true worship. Isaiah brings the books overarching themes to a head in a climactic vision of future glory. He shows that Christians are men and women who have been given hope and our hope culminates in eternal worship.

July 13, 2025 - Isaiah 63 forces Christians to embrace the metaphors of Jesus as both lion and lamb. The Son of God is portrayed in these verses as a conquering warrior and consuming fire as well as a humble shepherd of his people who does not leave us or forsake us when we grieve his Holy Spirit.

June 29, 2025 - The application of these verses is summed up in the first two words – arise and shine. The whole chapter is written to the future city of God. God will gather the elect from all over the earth, along with the exotic goods (the “glory”) of every nation, and make his city beautiful. It will be a city worth of our future glory, and more importantly, his. His intention is “to make the place of his feet beautiful (v. 13)” and ultimately it is because he himself is beautiful and glorious.

June 22, 2025 - The word “righteousness” is central to theme of the Bible and to the gospel itself. God’s people must come clean with the thought that there is tremendous unrighteousness poisoning the world and they are the ones responsible for it. In their humility and at the moment of their confession of sin, God sends the powerful image of a warrior. When none is righteous in the world, God puts on the breastplate of righteousness and brings the salvation of sinners himself.

June 15, 2025 - It is possible to seek God daily, delight to know his ways, to pray for righteous things, and to miss what delights the heart of God entirely. Scripture gives us examples of Christian heroes; God reveals his hearts, loves, and delights to us, but the church misses these things for what they deem to be more impressive. God reminds the church in this chapter that pure and undefiled religion is caring for the most vulnerable in society and loving them as we love ourselves. A life lived according to these desires is blessed, and is a life God delights in.

June 8, 2025 - In Isaiah 57, God illustrates again his intentions to show mercy and compassion to the broken hearted. He does not break bruised reeds or quench smoldering wicks. In the illustration of this passage, Isaiah is a construction foreman calling men to prepare a highway. The goal is to connect God’s two addresses—his two dwelling places: the throne room of heaven and the heart of a broken sinner.