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Do you ever feel that the Christian church is encircled and under siege? That Christians are hated more than another group in society? While the church was never popular, we’re now experiencing unprecedented animosity, enmity, hatred, and malice. David describes this terrifying Satanic venom in Psalm 54:1-5. Is there an antidote that neutralizes Satanic venom and re-starts our hearts?  Verse six describes and prescribes the antidote. Let’s give God our forearms and ask him to inject his vaccine into our spiritual veins.

Sermon notes on Hebrews 10:23-25.

Sermon notes on Daniel 5.

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“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on,” said Charles Spurgeon from bitter personal experience. Most Christians experience this pain at some point in their lives. Damaging lies get told about us and sprint way ahead of the truth. We try to help the truth catch up but the lies are out of sight and running in every direction, with damaging and sometimes deadly consequences. What do we do when lies are winning and truth is defeated? Psalm 52 helps us answer that question about the biggest race of all time and eternity.

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A few days ago, I re-visited a house that a team in our church is renovating for a low-income family. I was stunned at the end result. I had seen it a few months ago and, I must admit, I was not hopeful our team could make anything of it. I looked at it and thought, “How did it ever get like this?” This week, I was looking at the restored house, and I was asking the same question, though in a different spirit, “How did it ever get like this?” It wasn’t quite Chip and Joanna Gaines but it was still a beautiful transformation.

Sometimes we look at a life wrecked by sin and ask, “How did it ever get like this?” Then, “Can this ever be restored?” Psalm 51 answers both questions as we view the wreckage of David’s sin-ruined life.

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I write this just days after yet another evangelical celebrity has been exposed as a wickedly immoral man. How could he dupe so many for so long? The problem is we can’t see a person’s heart but only what’s on the outside. That’s why in Psalm 50, God calls us into his court to scan our hearts and issue his interim judgment before we face his final judgment (1-6). Although everyone looks very similar on the outside, God sees three types of heart. What are these hearts and which one do we have?