David commissions Amasa to assemble an army to fight the rebellious Israelites, but Amasa is delayed. “And David said to Abishai, ‘Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, lest he find for himself fortified cities, and escape us’” (2 Samuel 20:6 NKJV). Overtaking Amasa, Joab slays him and continues in pursuit…
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Sermons by Pastor Dustin Cummings
In this topical, companion message to our current study in 2 Samuel, Pastor Dustin teaches through Psalm 3, which David wrote when he fled from his son, Absalom. We see David’s unflagging trust in God, despite his external circumstances. “But You, O Lord, are a shield for me, My glory and the One who lifts up my head” (Psalm 3:3 NKJV). Maranatha!
Pastor Dustin introduces our new study in the historical book of 1 Samuel, which takes us from the end of the period of the judges to Israel’s first kings, Saul and David. In Chapter 1, barren Hannah pleads for a son at the tabernacle in Shiloh. “So it came to pass in the process of time that Hannah conceived and bore a son,…
Today’s message begins with Pastor Dustin’s eye-witness account of how Jesus is working through Far Reaching Ministries to set free the people of Uganda and South Sudan followed by remarks from former missionary to Italy, Abraham Singbeh. Pastor Kevin reviewed Paul’s warnings to the Ephesian elders about false teachers who would rise up in the church, drawing parallels to the prosperity gospel…
In this teaching, we learn how Stephen’s martyrdom began a frenzy of Christian persecution to which God used as a launching pad to spread the Gospel outside the city of Jerusalem to Samaria and Judea. Persecution divides the church necessarily cutting away the dross and strengthening what is left. In the fury of persecution in which Saul of Tarsus played a leading role,…