Lot did not sit down one day and say—you know, I want to destroy my wife, my kids, my testimony, my legacy, and my friendship with God and Abraham.No, Satan usually doesn't work that way. Lust is Satan's tool through the back door. He...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Our final stop in our journey through the Scriptures finding Christ as our Refuge may be the most vital one of all. We have seen over the past few messages that Christ is our refuge.He is the Refuge for all of us when we feel uncleanness;He is...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
THERE ARE NO SUPER SAINTS! That is the first lesson of our look at David tonight. We all struggle with the same challenges in life—that is the message of James 5.17. * James 5:17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Most of the Bible is in the major key. Saints fearlessly witnessing, churches valiantly serving against all odds—and what a joy those sections are to our souls. But side-by-side with all that is the minor key. God's Word contains true...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
In Psalm 57, David was called to live with a tough crowd. They were with him morning, noon, and night. He couldn't escape them. It would have been easier to just walk away from the whole situation, but that was not God's plan.God's Word...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
This morning all of us operate under some very powerful but often unseen laws around us. These are the laws of the physical universe. The laws of gravity, chemistry, and physics are inflexible, unstoppable and very unforgiving—and we all...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
God had David enrolled in the cave of troubles. This cave in I Samuel 22 was where David would face his personal problems and people with problems that just wouldn't go away.Now, where had David just arrived from when he entered the Cave at...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To better understand 1st Samuel 22 this morning, think over the past two weeks as the stories about conditions in the New Orleans Superdome began to leak out; the descriptions boggled our senses.Think of 20,000 bodies packed into that dark,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Sometimes its good to pull over and look at the map. Just to see where you are, where you're headed, and how far you have come. This morning we are on a wonderful journey finding all the sites in God's Word where Christ is our refuge. We...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
The last two steps in the pathway out of the pits of life are prayer and praise. Psalm 40 shows us that praying and praising gets us through the pits.In fact if we back up through all we have seen so far—it all makes so much sense.When we...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
