Helping People Experience Jesus in a Life-Changing Way
Today @EagleLifeChurch, we start our new year sermon series, “Ascend.”
The biggest thing on everyone’s minds in the new year are new year’s resolutions and the changes we want to make in ourselves. But it is difficult to make this change because of the sin in this world and the sin in ourselves.
Don’t give up hope!
This year, we invite you to ascend above the evil in this world and in ourselves. From psalms 120-134, we will explore the meaning of the psalms of ascent.
From the strong contrasts drawn between the outside world and Jerusalem by the pilgrims ascending to the holy city, we will find hope in our heavenly Father who shields us from evil and destruction.
Today’s message teaches us about God as our peacekeeper in this dangerous and unstable world. Today we ascend to this understanding: that God is our keeper of peace.
Today’s message teaches us about the present, past, and future promise of God’s peace and prosperity for the people of His house. You will learn to find joy, experience community, and live changed. As the New Testament teaches, “on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” (Matt 16:18)
Today, we take the next two steps on our climb to the presence of God to discover mercy and redemption when the LORD is on our side. From Psalm 123 and 124, you will learn to trust God to deliver you from shame and help you in distress.
Through today’s Psalm of Ascent, we learn to trust God to surround us with protection from the wicked rulers in our generation. God will “like the mountains defend the upright.”