Most people instinctively know the difference between ordering at a restaurant and eating at a friend’s table—yet that same distinction somehow disappears in how they approach God. Proverbs 3:9 calls believers to honor the Lord with their wealth and the first fruits of all their produce, not as a business transaction or a path to guaranteed earthly blessing, but as an act of worship that reshapes what winning actually means.

We can say things like “In God We Trust,” but what do we mean? Do we really trust?

God’s way doesn’t always look the most successful in the moment, but it is the path to true success.

When it feels dark, we need the well trod paths of God’s Word to strengthen us so we don’t lose hope.

You’re driving through a late-March snowstorm, visibility gone, familiar exits slipping past unseen, when a sign appears: St. Louis, 100 miles. The number ticks downward even while the snow keeps falling. Psalm 13 speaks to that same stretch of road in the soul—where personal turmoil and global chaos converge, God seems silent, and the plea rises: “Look at me, answer me, revive me, or else I will die.” The question is whether any sign of the kingdom can still be trusted.

You arrive early at the restaurant and order an iced tea while waiting for a friend whose advice you desperately need. One refill comes, then another, until the condensation has left the table damp and the agreed time is long past. An hour and a half later, you leave more dejected than when you arrived. Psalm 13 asks the same question that fills that silence: How long, O Lord?

When evil seems to be prospering, the temptation can be to find a backup plan instead of God’s way. Do we need one?

Easter is God’s profound statement that He not only listens, but He also saves.

We begin a new series in the Psalms tonight, looking at David’s lament in Psalm 12. What happens when we feel like evil has triumphed and whatever good we do is fruitless?

When a worthy cause demands everything, compromise feels reasonable—even necessary. As Paul delivers a charge to Timothy to continue the job, he gives an important qualification: fight the good fight while holding firmly to faith and a good conscience, because the good fight is lost not through open defeat but through the quiet erosion of integrity.