The substitute must be a man so that he can die and that in the place of sinful men and he must be God so that he can bear the crushing fullness of his own wrath.

No mere animal or sinful man can be offered as substitute for the debt we owe to God for our sins.

God’s justice is a good thing and it requires that every sin be punished, but this can be done by a substitute.

What have we learned through our study of looking at the Church as a worshipping community?

Romans 14:19 instructs us to "pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding". We will discuss what this means and how we go about putting it into practice.

Today we'll focus on specific ways to bear one another's burdens and how to encourage one another in the faith.

We will discuss what it means to see the Lord as our refuge and to seek safety in him.

Today we will review the use of the psalms with a particular focus on the children.

Pastor Rick DeMaas is the Associate Pastor at Faith Presbyterian in Tacoma, WA.

A number of psalms and some sections in the psalms have been labeled as 'imprecatory', which means they call for judgment, calamity or curses on ones enemies. The New Testament instructs us to bless our enemies and not to curse. Are we then to ignore or set aside these psalms? If not, then what place do these passages have in our lives? We will wrestle with these questions in Sunday School.