This coming Sunday, August 25, we’ll be gathering as a church and with our neighbors for a ‘Picnic in the Park’ at McNear Park. We’ll start at 10 AM. Bring finger foods to share, blankets, chairs, and games!

Since the maker of heaven and earth is (through Christ) our help, we will not fear (verse 8). What could be against us (Romans 8:31)?

Believers feel the pain of the world’s contempt (verses 3–4). How do we keep from either adopting its views or becoming resentful and withdrawn?

What Jerusalem was to the ancient Jews the church is to believers in Christ. When we come to faith in Christ, we become citizens in the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22–24; Philippians 3:20).

Psalm 121 calls us to not look towards creation for comfort or help but rather — and always — to the Creator who guards us and keeps us from evil.

This coming Sunday, July 28, we’ll be gathering at 11 AM with the saints at Living Word Church in Novato, CA to worship, pray, and seek the Lord’s comfort for the Ent family.

It is in our utter dissatisfaction, disenfranchisement, and dismay with the world’s narrative of events that we ultimately take up the path of a ‘long obedience in the same direction’ towards Jesus!

God’s response to human pride and power is to install his “son” on Zion. This points beyond Israel’s king to Jesus, God’s true Son.

“Prayers are tools.” But there’s one important clarification: “Prayers are not tools for doing or getting [as we’re used to in our Western culture], but for being and becoming."