In Psalm 12, David feels isolated and marginalized as a man of faith amid a rising tide of wickedness in his world. The challenges he faced highlight a harsh reality that echoes across generations and speaks to our own era. Societies face dire consequences when the faithful falter. From a spiritual and moral perspective, the dangers of such a collapse are more severe and far-reaching than a nuclear Iran, a global pandemic, or another economic recession. What unfolds when godly men and women disappear from marriages, families, churches, communities, and nations? This message dives deep into that pressing and urgent question.

Exodus, Chapter 13, verses 19-22 is one of many biblical passages that expresses truth about God’s presence. Further exploration of these verses reveal that geographically and experientially, a passage can be a road, a path, a course, that takes us from one place to another in life just like the one the Israelites embarked on as they left Egypt for the Promised Land. God is present in that kind of passage as well. This message helps us celebrate and understand more about how God’s people experience God’s presence.

In Chapter 11, verse one of the Book of Ecclesiastes, the biblical writer uses the merchant who stocks and sends ships out to sea as a metaphor for the life of faith. Faith is not afraid! It lives boldly, broadly, blindly and bountifully.