King's Church

What do a crowd at Jerusalem's Water Gate, an Englishman shivering in a prison cell near Brussels, and the apostle Paul in chains have in common? In this teaching we open Nehemiah 8 and 2 Timothy 2 to see that God gave His Word to be understood, and we trace what it cost to put the Bible into the language of ordinary people, from John Wycliffe's burned bones to William Tyndale's plowboy vow. You'l...

In 1428, church officials dug up a man who had been dead for forty-four years, burned his bones, and threw the ashes into a river, because he had dared to put the Bible above the pope and his followers were putting it into plain English. In this 17-minute recording, Pastor John tells the story of the men who risked everything to put God's Word into the hands of farmers, shopkeepers, and plowboys,...

Have you ever believed God's promises with all your heart, prayed hard, and then watched heaven go silent while the wrong people prospered? Psalm 10 opens with that very question, "Why, O LORD, do you stand far away?", and takes us through three rooms: the room where the wicked man boasts that God will never see, the room where David prays, and the throne room, where a runaway servant woman, a cry...

The Bible's first words are not an argument for God but an announcement: "In the beginning, God." In this opening lesson of our new Foundations series, Pastor John Samson shows why Scripture can speak that way, tracing a line from Genesis 1 through Psalm 14 to Romans 1, where Paul says God has made Himself plain to every person. If that is true, the real issue is not a shortage of evidence but wha...

Does God remember you when the diagnosis comes, the injustice goes unanswered, and your prayers seem to hit the ceiling? Psalm 9 answers with a resounding yes: the LORD sits enthroned forever, and He does not forget the cry of the afflicted. But the psalm also turns the question around and asks whether we remember Him, warning that the road to ruin is walked not only by the openly wicked but by de...

For four sessions we argued the case that the Christ is Jesus; in this final session we stop arguing and simply look, because there is a difference between examining a diamond's certificate and turning the diamond in the light. The chapter we turn is Isaiah 53, written seven centuries before Bethlehem, and we walk it slowly, stanza by stanza: the Servant God introduces, the Servant despised, the S...

Under a dark sky, David looked up at the moon and the stars and asked a question the world is still asking: "What is man?" Our age offers two answers: that you are nothing at all or that you are the center of everything. Psalm 8 refuses both. It says you are small, and crowned, both at once. In this message we look up with David, look honestly at ourselves, and then look at the Man who wears the c...

Could Jesus of Nazareth be the promised Messiah, or could someone else, in some other century, fit the description just as well? In this fourth session we let the prophets answer, and their answer is a deadline (He had to come before the temple fell in AD 70), an address (one nation, one tribe, one family, one small town), and a pattern (Israel's own Scriptures kept showing the chosen deliverer re...

Warren Smith takes the closing doxology of Jude and asks a question none of us can fully answer: how great is God? Working through who God is, what belongs to Him by right, and when He holds it, the message lands on three little words Jude wrote that no human language can really carry, "before all time," and shows why they matter for who Jesus is. Written by a man who grew up with Jesus as his old...

In one synagogue on one Sabbath, a woman bent double for eighteen years came simply to worship, and Jesus stopped mid-sermon to see her, call her, touch her, and set her straight. Then the man in charge stood up and told everyone the healing was against the rules. In this message from Luke 13:10-17, guest speaker Rob-roy Nelson walks through four displays: Jesus teaching, Jesus touching, a synagog...

Someone has said something about you that is not true, it was believed, and no court on earth is ever going to clear your name: Psalm 7 is the song David sang from exactly that place. He refuses to swallow the injustice and he refuses to strike back; instead he hands the whole case to a Judge who, the psalm says, feels indignation every day. That verse is the one our generation least wants to hear...

Why would the promised King, David's Son and David's Lord, end up nailed to a Roman cross? On the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus asked two shattered disciples, "Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?", and then answered it from Moses and all the Prophets. In this session we stand where those disciples stood, beneath the two great windows onto the...

Psalm 6 is the prayer of a man too crushed to finish a sentence, weeping every night, unable to tell whether the hand on him is a Father's rod or a hangman's rope, and it asks the question every hurting believer asks in the dark: on what possible ground would God listen to me now? David has nothing to bring, and he does not bring it, because the only plea that has ever worked is "save me for the s...

What did Jesus mean when He asked the question no scholar in Jerusalem could answer: if the Christ is David's son, how can David call Him Lord? In this teaching, we trace the answer from God's covenant with David through Daniel's cloud-riding Son of Man, Isaiah's child named Mighty God, and Zechariah's astonishing word about the LORD who is pierced. Then we watch history's least likely converts, s...

Psalm 5 contains a sentence many Christians would quietly prefer was not in their Bibles: "You hate all evildoers." Two verses later, a man walks into that God's house and is welcome. What makes the difference is not that he was a better man, and David's own psalm tells us exactly what it is, in one Hebrew phrase he uses twice. Come and hear how the God who cannot have evil as a guest opens His ow...

Before the New Testament had taken its written form, the earliest Christians stood in the very city where Jesus had been crucified and proclaimed from the Old Testament Scriptures that the Christ is Jesus. In Acts 2, Peter does not merely announce that conclusion. He argues for it. He opens the Scriptures, takes his hearers to two psalms of David, points them to facts they knew and events that had...

The whole restless world is asking the same question: who will show us some good? In Psalm 4, a king with trouble pressing in on every side finds an answer that lets him lie down and sleep in peace, and it isn't a change in his circumstances. It's a face: the shining face of God, promised in an ancient blessing and finally revealed in Jesus Christ. Listen to "The Light of Your Face," and hear why,...

This message from Ephesians 6:10–20 reminds us that the Christian life is a spiritual battle, but God has not left His people defenseless. We are called to stand firm, not in our own strength, but in the strength of the Lord, clothed with the armor He Himself provides and resting in the victory Christ has already won. A very practical and encouraging message on how believers can face temptation, d...

David flees Jerusalem with his own son leading the rebellion, his own sin standing behind the crisis, and many voices saying, "There is no salvation for him in God." He answers with none of his record and all of his God: a shield about him, his glory, and the lifter of a head that shame had covered, the LORD who answers from the very hill the usurper occupies. So he sleeps in the siege because his...

On the evening of the first Easter, the risen Lord told His disciples that everything written about Him in the Psalms must be fulfilled, and in this final session of our series we take Him at His word. We walk through Psalms 22, 23, and 24, the Cross, the Crook, and the Crown, and behold the Savior who died, the Shepherd who lives, and the Sovereign who reigns right now. We then face the hardest s...

Every January the world stops to hear a State of the Union Address, but Psalm 2 is something greater: God's own State of the Nations Address, and He is not seeking our approval of it. In it we hear four voices in turn: the nations raging against God's rule, the Father answering from a throne He has never left, the Son declaring the decree that made Him King, and the Spirit extending a summons that...

There are three short words we never stop needing to say to God: Please, Thank You, and Sorry, and it turns out the Psalter is full of all three. This teaching walks through the lament psalms with their five-part shape you can pray for the rest of your life, the thanksgivings that teach us to be the one leper who came back, and the penitentials, where David's Psalm 51 shows us what real repentance...

The very first word of the Bible's songbook is a promise of the one thing every human being is chasing: the blessed, truly happy life. But Psalm 1 paints its portrait of that life with such perfection that honest readers end up crushed rather than comforted, because none of us matches the man it describes. This sermon walks from the portrait to the flourishing tree to the two final ends, and stops...

Luther called the Psalms a little Bible, and Calvin called them an anatomy of all the parts of the soul. This overview walks through the shape, the poetry, and the songs of the Psalter, from the five books to the superscriptions to the laments and hallelujahs. It closes with the hymn Jesus almost certainly sang on the night He was betrayed, and why Psalm 118 will never sound the same once you have...

Elder Warren Smith took us into the closing doxology of Jude, walking through verse 24 under four headings: God's sovereign ability, His sovereign restraint, His sovereign enablement, and His sovereign gifting. The message answered the fear every believer knows (could I fall away?) with the glorious assurance that the God who is able keeps His people from stumbling and will present them blameless...