Have you ever heard someone ask, “How could you believe in a God who allows ________”? Or heard someone say, “How can you believe in a loving God when there is so much ________?” Ephesians gives the answer! And so God can always point to us as examples of the incredible wealth of his favor [...]

Hebrews is the perfect challenge to persevere – and Hebrews 3 is a good place to start. It brings together assurances about who Jesus is with declarations of God’s faithfulness. It reminds us about the sympathy we find in Christ while simultaneously reminding us that God is (and has been in the past) very serious [...]

My heart is not proud, O lord, my eyes are not haughty; I do not concern myself with great matters or things too wonderful for me. But I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me. O Israel, put your hope [...]

God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. There is a river whose streams make glad the city of [...]