Spiritual Courage

Pastor Bill Bush · Sep 8, 2025

Drawing from Psalm 42, Pastor Bill argues that feelings are real but not reliable — they function as a check engine light that signals something is happening in our hearts, but they must never be allowed to drive our decisions. The psalmist models two essential responses: first, question your feelings rather than obey them, digging beneath the surface to diagnose what is truly going on; and second, declare the truth by actively stepping into what God says is true, even when it doesn't feel right. Jesus Himself demonstrated this pattern in Gethsemane — honest about His feelings, yet surrendering to the Father's will.

Pastor Daniel Goulding · Feb 12, 2024

In Daniel 6, an 80-something-year-old Daniel faces a royal decree demanding he abandon prayer to God — and he simply does what he has always done. Pastor Daniel Goulding argues that Daniel's calm defiance was not spontaneous bravery but the fruit of decades of integrity and consistent prayer. True spiritual courage, he contends, is never manufactured at the moment of crisis; it is forged on a daily path of wholeness before God and others. Just as Navy SEALs fall to their level of training under pressure, believers will fall to their level of spiritual preparation — making integrity and prayer the essential disciplines for standing firm in an increasingly hostile culture.