In a snowstorm, the signs showing miles to safety keep you moving even when relief feels hours away. You eat, you sleep, you feel better—so you believe that’s where strength comes from. But what happens when food runs out, rest doesn’t help, and the world keeps breaking? David pleads the same in Psalm 13, cutting to the real source of life: “Look at me, answer me, oh Lord, my God, revive me, or else I will die.” When personal storms and world chaos collide, what keeps hope alive?

Study Questions

The following study questions are AI generated and may contain errors.

The preacher describes “functional atheism”—acknowledging God provides everything while living as though He provides nothing. What are specific areas of your own life where you recognize this tension between what you claim to believe and how you actually live?
David cries out “Look at me, answer me, oh Lord, my God, revive me, or else I will die,” yet the sermon emphasizes that God’s primary gift is His presence and gaze, not necessarily the immediate fixing of circumstances. How does this distinction change the way you understand answered prayer, and how might the snowstorm analogy help clarify the difference between feeling like God is distant and knowing He is still the source of hope?
The preacher uses the example of Jonathan’s eyes gleaming after eating honeycomb to illustrate that physical provision and spiritual revival are inseparable. How do you see God’s physical provision and spiritual care working together in your own experience, and where are you most tempted to credit the provision rather than the Provider?
Before crying out to God for rescue, the preacher (following John Calvin) suggests we must first ask ourselves: “Am I actually going the way that God has called me to go?” What does this self-examination look like in practice, and why might it be uncomfortable to ask honestly?
The sermon contrasts acting faithfully with merely acting like we’re acting faithfully. In what ways do you see Christians—or yourself—using God’s language to justify actions that actually align with worldly values rather than God’s mission, and what concrete steps can you take this week to confirm you are headed in the direction God has truly called you?

Transcript

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Well, good evening and welcome to Steadfast. I am so glad to be with you this week once again as we continue in Psalm 13. We’re thinking about the one who does, even when it feels maybe a little bit like he doesn’t.

I found myself thinking back to late March about a decade, decade and a half ago. We were coming back from a family gathering in Indiana for a birthday, and even though it was late March, we found ourselves in the midst of a snowstorm. And so here we were in the middle of Illinois, the snow’s coming down, you could barely see the road at times. The trip that often felt relatively long felt really long because it wasn’t just sort of long, it was long and treacherous. It was long and hard to tell even where you were. Sometimes you go back past familiar exits and not even realize you were passing them because you couldn’t see them. It was a very long drive. But then partway there, partway back home, you started to see the signs with the distance to St. Louis that were getting smaller. Maybe it said St. Louis, 100 miles. It felt so promising. Even though 100 miles in that felt really, really far, you could see the number ticking down and down and down.

While relief wasn’t immediate from the snow—that was a number of hours away still—it could be seen, you could tell it was coming. And that’s often what we need. God, in his word, doesn’t promise that we’re immediately going to be out of the storms. The storms, the thunderstorms, the spring storms that we’ve been seeing, he doesn’t promise out of the snow storms, even when they seem a little unseasonable. But what he does say is the kingdom of heaven is near. You can look at that sign and see, oh, wait. Yes, I’m exhausted. Yes, this is treacherous feeling. But there’s a destination ahead, and it’s only 100 miles away. Only 90 miles away. Only 50 miles away.

We find ourselves so weary in our lives—the things that challenge us personally, at work, at home, at church, maybe even wherever it might be. Obnoxious neighbor, a long line at the store. Then we come home, and we turn on the news, and we see all the horrible stuff happening. We see something like this weekend with an assassination attempt against the president and other government officials. And you think about that, all those things going on, and it feels like we’re stuck in the middle of a storm. Maybe it feels like the snowstorm of late winter and the severe thunderstorms of early spring put together. It feels like they’re both coming at us from different directions, our personal lives and the overarching world situation. And it feels so overwhelming. But God says, you need to keep an eye on the sign of hope. We desperately need that.

The good news that we find in Psalm 13 is even in the darkest moments—and our reading tonight is going to come from the darkest part of this psalm—there’s something to hold on to. Let’s pray tonight that we can see that and hold on to it. Would you pray with me, please?

Father, thank you for this evening. Thank you for your word that you invite us into and that you make your word into those signs telling us that the kingdom of heaven is near, that it is coming nearer and nearer, that whatever feels broken in life, whether it’s our own situations or just the overwhelming brokenness of this world, Lord, you remind us that your hope is near and ever nearer. Would you comfort us and strengthen us through that, we pray in Jesus’ precious name. Amen.

That’s what Psalm 13, just like Psalm 12 that we’ve been looking at previously, is all about—being reminded that God’s hope is there. When we look at his word and page through the pages of his word from beginning to end, it’s about the hope that is there even when it doesn’t feel like it. He loves us and that he is with us and that he’s calling us to follow him because that’s the good path, right?

In the middle of that snowstorm, which was only intensifying, if we’d stopped and just parked and said, oh, you know, it’s so bad we just won’t go anywhere, we wouldn’t have actually gotten out of it, at least for a time. Storms of life—they don’t even pass in a day or two. They stay. The question is, are we saying, God, point my car of life towards the kingdom of heaven? Let me see those signs that are going down and down and down.

When you’re driving, the temptation can sometimes be don’t even pay attention to the signs, right? It might even be discouraging. Oh, it’s not here yet. But when we really need encouragement, seeing that number go down, even if it’s big, is helpful. And when we’re feeling discouraged in life, even if the Psalms say, well, you’re going to go through difficult times, how helpful is it to see? But the number is going down. We’re approaching hope.

Let’s go ahead and turn to verse 3. David says, “Look at me, answer me, oh Lord, my God, revive me, or else I will die.”

God is the source of our hope. That’s the heart of this passage if you really think about it. He’s the source of our hope. Even in the turmoil of life, even in all the brokenness that we see, even when that storm is making it so we can’t see anything in front of us, God is the source of our hope. Even in turmoil, David recognizes that, right? He’s facing this turmoil. He feels like, on the one hand, you’ve called me. You told me to do your work, God, and now I’m suffering. Now I’m confused. Everything’s broken.

He doesn’t say, well, I guess I need to find my source of life and hope somewhere else. No, he says it’s in the Lord. “Look at me, answer me, oh Lord, my God, revive me, or else I will die.” David says, I know where my hope is, even when it feels distant, even when I’m crying out, even like last week where we started this psalm and it feels sometimes like God isn’t remembering us, isn’t hearing us. David says, I know that’s how it feels to me, but I know where my hope still is situated. It’s not in myself. It’s not in the powers of this world. It’s in the Lord.

Just as a cross-reference that I think helps to really capture what David is saying here, consider the story in 1 Samuel 14. This is of David’s friend Jonathan. But Jonathan had not heard about the oath his father had made the army take. He extended the end of his staff that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb. When he ate it, his eyes gleamed.

So this is a situation where Saul had told the army not to eat, but Jonathan doesn’t hear the message and he eats anyway because he doesn’t know it’s forbidden. And what do we see that happens? He later says, the reason I ate was because we were starving. We were weak. We needed nourishment. And so we ate and it gave us the strength to go and fight the battle.

The terminology used there about his eyes lighting up, that’s the same terminology David is using here. Makes me wonder, had David talked to Jonathan about that particular occasion? And he’s thinking of that as he describes this here. He’s thinking about his desperate need to find that honeycomb where he can get a little nourishment too. Could be just a coincidence, but it’s at least something to mull—that maybe, just maybe, David’s thinking of this very concrete physical revival that his friend experienced.

At the very least, that’s the thought that David has in general, but I think it’s very concrete for David. Yes, he’s talking about spiritual things, but for David, unlike how we often function, the spiritual things and the physical things are of very present, very real life value right in front of each other. Same pressing need at the same time.

And so while David’s talking about his need for God’s spiritual intervention in his physical world, David’s need for revival is to encounter the Lord spiritually. He just needs to hear the Lord’s voice. For him, that’s every bit as real as when we’re starving. We’re even starving to death and we need food. Perfectly compatible analogy for David, because what do we need more than food? We need our God. And what does he recognize? If God will provide him with that nourishment, his eyes will be bright too, just like Jonathan’s.

God’s look restores. God’s gaze upon us. We talked about last week that picture from the Aaronic Blessing, the Lord’s countenance shining upon us, and that’s what David’s thinking about here. All I need, Lord, is for you to look at me. I don’t need everything fixed around me. I just need your gaze. Isn’t that beautiful when you think about it?

If only we, when we prayed to God and we want something fixed, what we were really saying is, I know all this is broken, but God, what I really need, all I really crave, is just for you to be with me in this. Because here’s the thing that’s very clear in the Psalms: God promises that he will be. He doesn’t always promise the particular situation is going to go away right away. But he will be with us in it. He’s not going to leave us.

Getting that light in our eyes from God, it’s not an option. There’s not a whole bunch of different options. You could do like Jonathan and get the honeycomb, or you could do like David and seek out the Lord’s gaze and get it from there.

I am sure if we could talk to Jonathan today—maybe someday God will allow us to—we talk to Jonathan and say, was it really just honeycomb that lit up your eyes? And he’d say, no, no, what we’re talking about is the light that’s shining upon us. And he’d say, no, no, what provided that was the Lord providing the honeycomb to me. He’s the source of the provision. That’s what David’s saying here.

Yes, does he need food? Of course. Does he need rest? Of course. Does he need safety? Of course. We all need these basic things for survival. But what really matters most, what’s foundational below each and every one of them, it’s our relationship to God. He’s the one that provides those physical blessings, and more importantly, our overall wellness, whether we have those physical blessings or not.

Sometimes we do receive that physical provision. But it’s a mistake if we think that’s where the source of strength is, that our hope is in getting some food, or getting a new job, or getting around a group of people that really appreciate and encourage us. Our source of hope is in the Lord. And if we have those other things, and they’re good things being provided to us that we actually need, then guess where they come from? They come from the Lord.

Let’s say you go to the store this week because you’re getting your backyard ready for the summer, and you decide to put out some lights out on the patio. You want it to look pretty. So you go to Home Depot or Lowe’s, and they have the big section right now of outdoor patio decor to just spruce things up. There’s some different lights there, and you think, oh, those are pretty. These are pretty. And they’re in boxes with a little Try Me button on it. And you think, oh, well, I’d like to see what it’s like. So you press the Try Me button.

We’ve probably all seen and pressed those Try Me buttons on something. And so you press it, and the light lights up. Wow, light lights itself. Isn’t that amazing? So then you take the light out of the package. Maybe it’s a solar light that needs charging. Maybe it’s just using regular batteries. But you open up the battery compartment to put in the batteries. And you realize, well, that was dumb. It already lit up. I didn’t need to put in batteries.

But you’ve already started to open that compartment. You open up all the way, and there aren’t any batteries in there. And you exclaim, wow, I guess this light just runs off of air. It doesn’t really need batteries. I’ll just leave them out. And you put it outside, and you set it down. And the solar panel doesn’t charge anything, or the little switch doesn’t activate anything. You think, hmm, what’s wrong? What have you missed?

Well, when it was in that box, what was powering it wasn’t whatever could go in the main battery compartment, whether it’s the rechargeable batteries for the solar panel or regular batteries or the plug that goes into the wall. It was that button with a tiny little button battery inside of it. That button battery probably had a little wire running to the light. And that’s where the source of power was coming from.

So the fact that there apparently is this ability of the light to light itself without anything in the battery compartment isn’t actually true. There was something else being provided. We recognize that. As I described that scenario, you probably thought, well, no one would be so stupid as to say, I guess it just runs off of air because there isn’t anything in the battery compartment. Of course it needs batteries. That was the Try Me button, Tim.

But we do that over and over again when it comes to the spiritual things of life, the actual power that gives us life. Because we’re hungry, and we eat some food, and we feel better. Maybe life doesn’t seem quite as gloomy as it did before. We’re tired, and we get some sleep, and life feels better. We say, well, what really makes me well is if I get enough sleep and eat a good meal. Well, those are good things. We need those things. But if we actually think they’re the things that are going to light our eyes, they’re going to give us, ultimately, hope, it’s as silly as thinking that the air in the battery compartment is what was powering that light in the store.

And God’s word says as much. Just like that wire going from the Try Me button says as much. There’s where the power is coming from. Yet that tiny little wire we can often ignore. And the instruction in God’s word that says, no, the hope is coming from me, the Lord, we likewise ignore.

David says, even when it feels like I’m not getting any power at all, I know where my power, where my hope, where my life is coming from. Where do we think ours is coming from? And more importantly, where do we act like it’s coming from? Because we can say, well, it comes from God, but still act like he provides nothing.

Wise people over the last few decades have referred to this as functional atheism. I really like that phrase. We as Christians often live as functional atheists. We acknowledge that God provides everything, but then we act like he provides nothing. David says, even when I feel like I’m being provided with nothing, I know that God provides everything.

Do we understand that? When we do, it also helps us because when you’re lost in that storm, you need to know where you’re headed to and turn the car the right way. When the battery compartment isn’t obvious, but you realize that there is a place that needs batteries, you need the instructions that tell you where to put them. Likewise with our lives.

Verse 4: “Then my enemy will say, I have defeated him. Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.”

David here has been laying out the case. He feels like he hasn’t been hearing from the Lord. He knows his source of hope is from the Lord. And then he thinks about, well, what if you didn’t rescue me, Lord? What would my enemies think? They’d think I was defeated. But the implication here is they also think that you were defeated.

David says this at different times. Moses reflects on this. This idea that if you’re serving the Lord, failure ends up reflecting on the Lord. What does that actually imply? It means that our direction, the way we should be going, the way that we are being opposed from the outside, should be the direction that God wants us to go in. David understands that his success is the Lord’s success because God’s given him a mission. He’s going to go do that mission. If that mission succeeds, it reflects positively on the Lord. If it fails, well, if it’s God’s mission and it fails, what does it say about the Lord?

Here, it’s not as if David thinks, well, I need to remind God that this really matters. He knows it really matters. But in the conversation with the Lord he has in prayer, he reflects on that. He meditates on that need for success here so that it all comes together as much for him as for anything, as much for those hearing it later on as for anything.

Take a look at Numbers 14:15. Moses says, “If you kill this entire people at once, then the nations that have heard of your fame will say, because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to them, he killed them in the wilderness.”

Moses is reflecting the same way that David is here. Enemies, they’re going to see that crazy person, those crazy people that followed this God, Yahweh, who asked them to live for him and to do his things, even when they seem peculiar to the world. See, what happened is exactly what you’d think would happen in such a case. They died. They failed. They should have been like us. Should have worshiped other gods. Should have chased after what the world says will provide success, because that would have worked.

But David here is holding fast to what the Lord’s called him to, and so he realizes that success is actually important. Now, that’s a tempting thing for us to hold on to too much, because what we can think is, well, OK, now I know. If I’m a believer, I should just say to the Lord, whatever I’ve been trying to do, it’s not working. God, you need to make this work, because what are people going to think if I fail?

And I’m a believer, and you let me fail. And we as believers, we’re going to have times that we fail. Well, the key thing, I think, is what John Calvin points out in this passage, which is that if we’re going to make this cry, we need to actually inspect ourselves first and ask, am I actually going the way that God’s called me to go? If you’re driving in a storm and you notice the signs are going up, you need to ask, am I actually going the way that God’s called me to go?

If you’re driving in a storm and you notice the signs are going up, you don’t complain to the car that the signs, the mileage to home, is increasing and not decreasing. You realize, I pointed the car the wrong direction. And we need to be that introspective on ourselves too.

David doesn’t describe all this in the psalm, but I believe that David, clearly a man who sought after the Lord, he’s a man after God’s own heart. He’s reflecting on God’s calling. Before he cries out this way, I think he’s examined his heart and said, am I actually going the way that the Lord wants me to go? Because when I’m going to come to the Lord and say, you can’t let the enemies see me failing, he’s not doing something that God wants him to fail in. He’s doing the Lord’s actual work.

It’s not always comfortable to ask that question, but we need to. Am I actually on the side that the Lord wants me on? Just look at this verse again: “Then my enemy will say, I have defeated him. Then my foes will rejoice because I am upended.”

That can be true even when we’re doing things that aren’t pleasing to God. But as he brings it to the Lord, clearly the implication is David knows that God doesn’t want this to be an example against himself. And that means that David’s actually asked, am I doing what God wants me to do? We need to fight with integrity. We need to fight knowing what’s important, that we’re fighting for his kingdom and not our own kingdom.

So often, we come to God and say, why are you letting me fail? I tell people I follow Jesus, and I’m a Christian, and I have the bumper sticker, and I play the music, and I do this, and I do that. Stephen Curtis Chapman said in a song years ago, but what about the change? What about the difference? Am I actually showing any difference from the world? Because to say, God, why are you letting me fail? I’m acting just like the world, but I also say I’m yours, is absurd.

That’s not what David’s doing here. David is asking both, why am I in this state? God, hear my prayer. Don’t let me fail. But also, to himself, have I been doing what God wants me to do? And those two are crucial together.

This weekend’s news got me thinking about a different Chapman, Mark David Chapman, the assassin of John Lennon, one of the four Beatles. His story is sort of morbidly fascinating. A man who had been obsessed with the Beatles and also had come to be obsessed with Jesus. Well, it’s good to be obsessed with Jesus. And if you have a favorite band, that’s a certainly good thing. But then he started to grow disillusioned for a few different reasons.

For one, he looked at some of the songs that Lennon had written, including ones that denied the existence of God and imagined a utopian world like “Imagine,” and started to grow indignant that Lennon would advocate for a godless world. He looked at some of the things Lennon said about how we should all care for one another, and yet Lennon was incredibly rich and lots of people were incredibly poor and felt like there was hypocrisy. He looked at Lennon saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus and saw that as blasphemy.

Was he right at all? Well, you can look at some of that and say, that was really arrogant. Or, you know, it’s not a good thing to deny that there’s a God. Obviously, right? We’re reading the Bible together. It’s good to acknowledge that there’s God. The fool is the one who says in his heart there is no God.

But what’s the right course of action when you see someone doing this? It’s not to go and find them and kill them. That’s what he did. He found out where Lennon was and he killed him. And he’s been in prison ever since for the murder of John Lennon.

Were some of the things that Lennon did less than good? Yes. Maybe even outright bad? Yes. Were they things that we as Christians shouldn’t accept and agree to? Yes.

Should he have killed John Lennon for it? Obviously not. Should he have prayed for John Lennon? Yes. If he had an opportunity to talk to him, should he have somehow asked the Lord to convey the truth to John Lennon? Yes. There are ways to do this.

The problem was he saw a problem. He even felt like it was speaking poorly of the Lord. But he didn’t ask, but is the mission I’m on, is the direction I’m driving the direction that God actually calls me to be driving on? And so even if, as he was arrested and put in prison, at some point before he has, later on, said he repented of it, at some point he said, Lord, you know, I did your work. And why are you allowing me to be in prison? Even if he’d said that, the answer would have been, you didn’t do my work. You thought you were.

And in some moments, he’s even confessed that he believes that he did it, at least in part, because he thought it would make him famous. A lot of times when we kind of are on God’s mission, but we’re not actually doing his work, it’s because we’re trying to build up our kingdom under his name. We say, I’m doing this for God. And by the way, yeah, it kind of helps me out. And I’m really doing it for God.

And you know what happens? We may not, thankfully, kill someone, but we might be killing someone spiritually. We might be actually doing an anti-witness and not being used by God for his work. Can he overcome that? Yes, he’s the one who is sovereign and in control. But if we’re praying, God, use me, and don’t let me fail here, because my enemies will rejoice and they’ll think that you’re not really with me, the question should be, are we really with God on this?

No, I’m not talking about salvation here. If you genuinely have confessed your sins and repented of them and turned to the Lord Jesus, then you are saved even when you wander off. David is saved even when he wanders off. But it doesn’t mean God’s always going to be with him in the work that he’s doing if it’s not of the Lord.

Am I acting faithfully, or am I acting like I’m acting faithfully? They sound about the same. They often look about the same, but they’re totally different. We’re acting like we’re acting faithfully when we look how we can be famous, and so we figure out the action we can do to be famous or important or successful, or people will approve of us, people will give us likes on social media, people will whatever it is that we’re seeking after. But we couch it in the language of God. And maybe we even convince ourselves that we’re actually doing it for God.

But if we’re going to pray the prayer of the psalmist here, what we need to do is say, am I doing more than that? Am I actually acting faithfully, and not just acting like I’m acting faithfully?

I was thinking about what I wrote over the weekend. I sat down after I heard the news of the assassination attempt, and just started writing. I just had to write something down. I kept going through my head about, this isn’t the way. And if you read that, you already know I said that.

But the big thing that struck me is that we as Christians, every time something like this happens, are confronted anew with, are we going to actually do it God’s way? Doesn’t mean that assassination attempts will end. Doesn’t mean all the hatred and discord in the world will end. But it means even when it’s happening, just like it’s happening to David, that it can be something where we’re still pointing to the Lord in the midst of the turbulence.

Or we can put the language of God on something and just charge away like the world does. And when we fail, at most, it does nothing. And it even maybe detracts from the Lord’s reputation.

What are we going to do? And I think that’s a challenge this week. Thankfully, I don’t think anyone listening tonight is considering finding a famous music star and doing something horrible. And praise God for that. We don’t want to be doing that. But all the little things that don’t rise to that level that we do do, what are we going to do about that?

Maybe it’s what we’re going to post online. Maybe even in response to what happened this weekend. Are we going to say something that brings God’s light into the conversation that points people to Jesus? Are we going to say something that maybe invokes God’s name but just makes people angry, adds more discord and division? What are we going to do?

The world’s hurting when stuff like this happens. And we have a chance to do something different. So that even when it feels like we’re being opposed, like David does here, we can say, Lord, don’t let my enemies celebrate over this. And what we’re really saying is, don’t let your enemies celebrate over your work not being fulfilled.

That’s a prayer that God says, bring it to me. Because if we’re hoping in God, then we’re on the mission of God. And then we pray this prayer, and we watch as God continues to work. He says, I’m not going to let anyone else get the ultimate triumph.

You might be 100 miles away from the kingdom. You might be 50 miles away from the kingdom, but you’re headed in that direction. When we act in accord with his mission, we’re saying to the other people that have pulled over because they’re not sure how far away the kingdom is, and they just kind of are giving up, hey, follow me. I know the way. I know the way, and I know we’re getting closer.

I can tell you, this week people need that. But every week, people need that. Our mission isn’t to contribute to the storm. It’s to point to the way out. May we do that.

Would you pray with us? Lord, we pray that you would help us to remember that our hope is in you, not in the things of the world, not in the ways of the world. Help us to actually live that way. Don’t let us be functional atheists who say that, but then live still as if we have to do all the things of the world, speak like the world, act like the world, hope like the world.

Would you help us to actually hope in you? And when, unfortunately, time and again, horrible things happen, or horrible things come close to happening, and the world’s hurting and confused, even if they oppose us, they would still say, oh, there’s something different there. That person’s acting in accordance with what God’s word says. And even if the person says, I don’t believe God’s word, maybe they’re confronted through your spirit in that very moment to consider your word.

Would you make us lights? Would you help us to be guides pointing to the truth, not those adding to the confusion? We pray this in Jesus’ precious name. Amen.

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There’s so much noise out there. Every day on social media, you know it, I know it. Let’s call more people to actually hear God’s word instead, and join us together in it. Because when you invite someone, maybe they come back next week, and even while we’re doing this live, they see you on, and they chat with you, and we apply it together.

We’ve seen that happen over and over again as part of this church family. You really are the hands and feet of the Lord when you take his word and you share it with someone. So please do do that.

Of course, then we go and do that well beyond this video. We go and do it throughout our daily lives. How are we doing that? May we do that? Maybe you have a question. Maybe you’re trying to figure out how to do that. Or you need some prayer so that you can hold fast to what God’s called you to do because it’s so tempting not to.

You can leave a prayer request in the comments below or in the texting line 833-356-4032. That’s 833-356-4032. Either way, it’s great to pray with you. It’s great to talk with you. Please do take advantage of that. As we do, we can encourage each other.

Because sometimes we are already examined in our own hearts, just like David, and we really can come to the Lord, and we are on that mission. Sometimes we think we are, but we’re just acting like we’re acting faithfully. And we need some help. We need to help each other to actually act faithfully. God uses us to do that and to strengthen each other.

Hope this has been an encouragement to you. One way we can encourage our neighborhood, at least part of our neighborhood, our neighborhood in St. Charles, and beautifully through the help of our whole church family—not just in St. Charles, but around the nation and world—is by our can drive.

If you would like to participate, this Sunday is the last opportunity to do that. So please do take advantage. Just bring some cans on Sunday if you’re here in St. Charles or the general area. If you are not in the area, you can always make a donation online. Just let me know. Send me a message that you’ve made it for the can drive, and we will have some more cans delivered.

We had some delivered yesterday. From the donations we’ve been receiving, we’ll have some more delivered. Then we’ll get them off through the help of our wonderful mailman, Michael, getting them off to the local community food banks.

It’s a wonderful opportunity to serve our community with Jesus’s love. So I hope you have a wonderful week, and I’ll see you again very soon.