Sunday Morning 10:00am Service

Sun, Aug 3, ‘25 - AM Services

“God Is with You: Hope for When You Are Hurt” - Nathan Coats

 Psalm 14

"When we are hurt by others, we can have hope and joy because of the presence of God and the salvation of God."

1. We should lament the actions and the hearts of sinful people (v.1-4) 

2. We have hope in the presence of God (v. 5-6) 

 “The lembas had a virtue without which they would long ago have lain down to die...This way bread of the Elves had potency that increased as travelers relied upon it alone and did not mingle it with other foods. It fed the will, and it gave strength to endure, and to master sinew and limb beyond the measure of mortal kind.”

 J.R.R. Tolkien 

3. We have joy in the salvation of God (v. 7) 

 “I climbed into the tree and was left there alone in the bush. I heard the frequent discharging of muskets and the yells of the Savages. Yet I sat there among the branches, as safe as in the arms of Jesus. Never, in all my sorrows, did my Lord draw nearer to me, and speak more soothingly in my soul, than when the moonlight flickered among those chestnut leaves… If thus thrown back upon your own soul, alone, all alone, in the midnight, in the bush, in the very embrace of death itself, have you a Friend that will not fail you then?” 

 John Paton 

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