Ring of Truth
Thursday May 9, 2024
May 9, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Can you imagine having to work that hard to appease God? The people of Israel continued to sin, and sin had to be dealt with. They had to bring sacrifices and offerings to keep themselves in a right relationship with God. In his message today, Pastor Dan will encourage you with the knowledge that you don’t have to work at earning a right relationship with God. Jesus died once and for all as the perfect sacrifice. You don’t have a bunch of rules to follow that will make God love you. Just put your faith in Jesus.
Wednesday May 8, 2024
May 8, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Aren’t the connections between the Old Testament and the New Testament amazing? In today’s message, Pastor Dan is teaching about the tabernacle that God instructed Israel to build. There’s some wonderful meaning in the details. Even in the metal that the sockets were made out of! The tabernacle is a foreshadowing of God’s plan to redeem us. Are you resting in the redemption that Jesus provided for you? You can celebrate today that God had a plan long ago to make a way for you to be redeemed.
Tuesday May 7, 2024
May 7, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Have you made your home in the Rock? It is essential that we understand just how weak and vulnerable we all are. We are in need of a strong home, a refuge. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will challenge you to put your complete faith in Jesus. Don’t trust in your own power or wisdom to save yourself. It is so important that you acknowledge that you are in need of something greater than yourself to build your life upon. Jesus is the only Rock that will protect you. He is a sure foundation that will never fail.
Monday May 6, 2024
May 6, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
The Bible is so rich in meaning, isn’t it? We can find so much application of the parables to our lives. That’s why it’s so important to read and reread scriptures. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will encourage you by teaching you about how your sin is covered by Jesus. You are just like the prodigal son who ran away from the Father and was covered in the filth of your sin. However, the Father has welcomed you back, because He loves you so much, and He has covered your sins with the blood of Jesus.
Friday May 3, 2024
May 3, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Are you filled with the fuel of the Holy Spirit? If you have accepted Jesus as your Savior, you have the Holy Spirit living in you. All we have to do is remember that the Spirit is our fuel and rely upon Him. In his message today, Pastor Dan will remind you to let your light burn brightly. Just like a candle needs wax or oil, you need the Holy Spirit, so stay connected. Read your Bible, and pray constantly. Tap into the spring of life that is already living in you, then God’s love and truth will spill out of you and shine.
Thursday May 2, 2024
May 2, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Are you living in the darkness or in the light? We all have sin in our lives, and it’s easy to be ashamed of that sin. We want to cover it up, so people will think we’re good Christians. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will challenge you to walk in the light. Don’t keep your sin in the darkness. Jesus has cleansed you from your sin. You are a new creation, and you are seen as pure in God’s sight. If you try to hide your sin, you’re giving it the power to grow. Live in the light, so you can have honest relationships.
Wednesday May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Are you trying to reach God or let Him reach you? We often think the work of “finding” God is done by our own power and our own ability to be pure and perfect, but the truth is God has done all the work. In his message today, Pastor Dan will teach about God’s tabernacle in the Old Testament and how even the layout of the tabernacle was a picture of how God is moving out from His dwelling place to encounter us. God wants to encounter you. He is reaching out and pursuing you. All you have to do is let Him in.
Tuesday April 30, 2024
April 30, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
When was the last time you spent extended time with God? When did you last just rest in His presence? Sometimes we’re embarrassed to say it’s been a while. We think maybe it’s been too long and God isn’t waiting for us anymore. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will teach you that God is always available. His table is always set for you to join Him. If it’s been too long, God is not going to reprimand you. God is going to be happy that you are taking time to be with Him. Have some quiet time with God today.
Monday April 29, 2024
April 29, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Are you trying with all your might to hold onto God? Are you working on doing religion perfectly? We can try and try to follow the rules, but that isn’t how we earn God’s love. In his message today, Pastor Dan will encourage you to see things differently. You can try to hold onto God, but the truth is that He’s holding onto you. Does that make you relax your grip a little bit? Rest in the knowledge that you don’t have to work so hard to earn God’s love. Let God hold on to you and transform you into the image of Christ.
Friday April 26, 2024
April 26, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
Aren’t you glad that you are continually forgiven, that your mercies are new every day? In the Old Testament, the priests would go once a year into the Tabernacle, into the holy of holies, and atone for Israel’s sins, so that the people’s sins were forgiven. Then they had to wait a whole year for their sins to be forgiven again. In his message today, Pastor Dan will remind you how amazing it is that Jesus has made the sacrifice for your sin and is always in the Holy of Holies in heaven, constantly making atonement for your sin. You don’t have to wait a year to be forgiven.
Thursday April 25, 2024
April 25, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
As much as we tend to look at the Old Testament as bloody and judgmental, God displayed His mercy and grace in ways that are often overlooked. While there were times when He carried out judgment on wicked men - He is a just God after all - He also showed kindness and patience repeatedly as He worked with Israel and their inclination to rebel. As Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, even in the structure of His tabernacle, God points to His merciful, forgiving nature, not His judgment.
Wednesday April 24, 2024
April 24, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
What a fascinating parallel. In today’s message, Pastor Dan will help us see the connection between the design of the Tabernacle - prescribed nearly fifteen hundred years before Jesus’ coming - and His divine nature. He was a humble, common man, and you wouldn’t have thought anything of Him just from looking at Him. He wasn’t wealthy. He wasn’t a model a bodybuilder or a politician. He was a carpenter and there was nothing remarkable about His appearance. Yet, He was the incarnation of God.
Tuesday April 23, 2024
April 23, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
God had very detailed requirements for the building of the tabernacle. He chose materials and designs that were meaningful to Himself and His people. Yet, as Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, despite the ornate, valuable items found inside, the exterior was kept much more simple. Apart from its size, it would have looked like a tent. Yet, God dwelt in it. It offers us a symbol not only of Jesus, who came in the humble form of a man but of the way that the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts now.
Monday April 22, 2024
April 22, 2024 • Dan Sexton
Even in the age of frozen dinners, fast food, and eating in front of the TV, most of us still value sitting down to dine with the people we care about. Whether your everyday meals are given this reverence or not, you can likely think of special times each year when you make it a priority to slow down and eat a meal with your loved ones. As Pastor Dan will point out in today’s message, this practice bore a lot more significance in ancient culture, as does Jesus’ promise to serve us and eat with us when He returns.
Friday April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024 • Pastor Dan Sexton
As we study the book of Exodus with Pastor Dan, we’ll be frequently reminded of just how complicated and messy the Old Covenant was. It was a work of mercy and grace that God allowed the Israelites an opportunity to commune with Him, but it was all indirect, through priests, offerings, and temples. But because of Jesus’ ultimate sacrifice on the cross, we now can approach God - the Creator of the Universe - on a daily basis and He wants to listen and speak to our hearts.