New Life Downtown

This week our guest preacher Amber Ayers walks us through the spectrum of human experience contained in Psalm 40. It reaches from praising and thanking God and declaring his goodness to expressing the hurt, disappointment and difficulty of being human. This psalm describes the stuff we all feel, but many of us don't talk about.

This week our guest preacher Amber Ayers walks us through the spectrum of human experience contained in Psalm 40. It reaches from praising and thanking God and declaring his goodness to expressing the hurt, disappointment and difficulty of being human. This psalm describes the stuff we all feel, but many of us don't talk about.

Psalm 23 may be one of the most well-known and well-loved Psalms because of the way it addresses our longing to be cared for and looked after. Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see how anything else that we look to as our shepherd--as being able to protect, provide, heal, and guide us--will ultimately let us down. Even when we try to care for ourselves, we can't give ourselves what we long for most. But the Gospel announces that Jesus has come to be our shepherd Himself, and He is the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep.

Psalm 23 may be one of the most well-known and well-loved Psalms because of the way it addresses our longing to be cared for and looked after. Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see how anything else that we look to as our shepherd--as being able to protect, provide, heal, and guide us--will ultimately let us down. Even when we try to care for ourselves, we can't give ourselves what we long for most. But the Gospel announces that Jesus has come to be our shepherd Himself, and He is the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep.

Psalm 23 may be one of the most well-known and well-loved Psalms because of the way it addresses our longing to be cared for and looked after. Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us see how anything else that we look to as our shepherd--as being able to protect, provide, heal, and guide us--will ultimately let us down. Even when we try to care for ourselves, we can't give ourselves what we long for most. But the Gospel announces that Jesus has come to be our shepherd Himself, and He is the Good Shepherd who lays down His life for His sheep.

Do you ever read the headlines and look around and wonder who's running this place? The world can seem chaotic and tumultuous, but Psalm 2 reminds us that there is a King. God, the King of creation, brought His Kingdom on earth through Jesus. Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us understand that we cannot speak about God and His ways in generic terms; instead, there are now claims that God makes of us, and ways that we must learn to live under His reign.

Do you ever read the headlines and look around and wonder who's running this place? The world can seem chaotic and tumultuous, but Psalm 2 reminds us that there is a King. God, the King of creation, brought His Kingdom on earth through Jesus. Pastor Glenn Packiam helps us understand that we cannot speak about God and His ways in generic terms; instead, there are now claims that God makes of us, and ways that we must learn to live under His reign.