Pastor David
Behold! The White Rider!
There are times when the opposition to who we are is so significant it feels like David and Goliath. The enemy seems too powerful. So, we are given a vision […]
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Raise a Hallelujah!
Hallelujah means let us praise God! This imperative to praise is born out of the certainty that God will judge his people’s enemies justly and take his people to himself [...
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Rage of the Dragon!
Know your enemy. This is the most basic rule of warfare, but one we too often forget. Behind all the hate of God’s people, there is one real enemy. He […]
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Work of Witness!
Some days it can feel like the world is spinning out of control. We can struggle, not just our place in it, but with our role. However, our role has […]
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Envy: God Made Me Wrong
Envy isn’t about not having enough stuff. Rather, it is the sense that I am not enough. Seeing things in others that I wish for myself. But, I need to […]
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Greed: God Doesn’t Care
Greed moves beyond having what we need to live. Instead, if focuses on accumulation to define our self and status. It is ambition gone wrong. We are called to practice […]
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Gluttony: Life is More Than
Food and drink are good and necessary for the health of our bodies, but we can easily overindulge those appetites, placing our physical desires over our spiritual good. To comba...
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Lust: God’s Love Is Not Enough
Men and women are designed for one another. Therefore, sexual desire isn’t sinful. But, lust is desire disordered. Rather than fulfilling our longing, it leaves us empty and sep...
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Wrath: Usurping God’s Role
Anger over injustice is good. We even see Jesus become angry in several places. But, we’re not Jesus and our anger can too easily give way to wrath. God is […]
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Sloth: Ignoring God
Rest and leisure are good and important things. However, we can slide into spiritual laziness. When we do we do not take time to worship God or attend to our […]
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Pride: Putting God on Trial
The sin of pride puts us over others: our fellow human beings and God. We want to put our will in the place of God’s will. When the two do […]
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Our Father, Good Father
The world has taught us and continues to teach us that we do not have enough…and we never will. That poisons our thinking about offering our finances to God. We […]
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Esther: A Woman of Courageousness
The whole kingdom seemed to be against the Hebrew people, after all the king just signed an edict to put them all to death. Now Esther had to decide if […]
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Hannah: A Woman of Selflessness
Her heart continued to break year after year because she was not able to give her husband a son. Hannah’s life, despite her husband’s love, had become a torment. She […]
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Deborah: A Woman of Empowerment
Often leadership means empowering others to act. Deborah embodies this perfectly. Called to lead, she names the people through whom victory will come. When her general remains u...
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Christmas Eve
After our long waiting through Advent, we celebrate the arrival of Jesus our King. His humble status as a baby lying in a feeding trough reminds us that God has […]
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Mary: A Woman of Trust
Suddenly, a young teenage girl named Mary finds herself in a scene straight out of the Scriptures. She is afraid and confused. The angel promises incredible things to her that, ...
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Rahab: A Woman of Loyalty
When spies arrive at her boarding house, Rahab shows she is spiritually discerning. She knows of the character of Israel’s God. So, when she is asked to give up these […]
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Shipharh and Puah: Women of Integrity
No one would have blamed them, after all, they didn’t really have a choice: they were slaves, they were single, and they didn’t even have a family. But, when it […]
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