Sermon Overview:In this sermon, Mr. Spring encourages people to love God’s Word. First, he calls us to bask in the Word of God by loving and longing for time to read and study. Second, he exposes barriers to our love of the Word, pointing mainly to our flesh and the Devil. Third, he leads us in how to break through in our Bible reading; we should pray, plan, and persevere in daily reading and stud...  Read More

Sermon Overview:After being delivered from his enemies David pens Psalm 18, rejoicing in the steadfast love of the LORD made tangible in the delivering of his life from certain death. David recounts the severity of his circumstances and exalts in God’s execution of justice on his behalf. Psalm 18 expresses the LORD’s deliverance-in-action both towards his anointed King David as well as all of God’...  Read More

“In other words, the same event has earthly and heavenly counterparts. On earth the battle has to be planned and forces assembled, swords at the read, yet it is only the Lord who gives the victory, and to this cause he summons all the heavenly forces at his command.” - Alec Motyer“The note on which he ends the psalm is of God’s covenant commitment “to David and his offspring forever’ (Psalm 18:50)...  Read More

Sermon Overview:In the greatest sermon ever, the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us how to pray. He begins by inviting us to call on Our Holy Father, who already knows and cares for all of our needs and desires daily fellowship with us. Three imperatives in the second half of the prayer prepare us for our three greatest needs. First, Jesus teaches us to pray daily, because we depend on God for ...  Read More

“Look at the first four words of Matthew 6:5, ‘And when you pray…’ There is no such thing as a non-praying Christian…Our prayer life should be like the iceberg in the ocean, with a great mass of spirituality under the surface that no one can see, rather than iceberg lettuce floating in the water, with all the vegetable on top and nothing under the surface. Our prayer life should be more than meets...  Read More

Sermon Overview:David describes in Psalm 54 the pain and perplexity of being betrayed by his own tribe. In his distress, David immediately turns to God rather than revenge. He reminds himself of who God is and what God does compared to human help. This forms the foundation of his confidence in the midst of the pain of betrayal. In his confidence, David also hands over to God the responsibility for...  Read More