How many times have we been half a step from danger and never knew it? We had a near brush with disaster but were completely unaware.

Dr. Dan Borvan brings us a message this morning from Psalm 72.

The Lord keeps his people with constant attention, powerful protection, and Fatherly affection.

The faithful will carry crosses and have troubles. Psalm 3 gives believers a roadmap for facing trouble by faith.

We indwell a frenetic world where we’re tempted to “perform” for our own self-justification, leading to burnout. But God calls us in Psalm 90 to indwell a different reality—in fact, to make God our home.

Life is full of stress and trouble.  Yet, Psalm 131 proclaims that God is enough to get us through.  And because that is true, we can be a people who resist anxious pride, cultivate humility, and hope in the Lord even when life is tough.  A calm soul hopes in the Lord.

Trials and sufferings convince us that God has abandoned us, but Psalm 46 reminds us that God is with us and for us, even when it feels like everything and everyone is against us.

Psalm 119 provides an extended insight into the psalmist’s spiritual experience as a suffering sojourner looking ahead to God’s mysterious but sure deliverance.

This Psalm teaches us about life’s travails, and that Israel fails, but that Christ prevails.

David has two problems. There is David’s sin and there is David’s self. He faces his guilt as well as his guilty feelings. His repentance finds its voice, as does his faith, in the hope that God’s grace is sufficient for both his problems.

Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering.  However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

Why do we conceal our sins rather than confess them, especially when they imprison and distance us from God’s presence and his people? We’ll consider the folly of this approach to the Christian life and the liberating joys of confession flowing from our faith in the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.

Even though our praise cannot actually make God greater or higher than He is, the Lord is pleased for our praise to exalt Him in our minds and hearts.

Psalm 8 contains the reflections of the psalmist upon the night sky. At the beginning and end, he speaks about the glory of God.

The Psalm is not a reflection focused on the pre-fall position of humanity in God’s creation but on God’s continued use of mankind in redemptive history.