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Sep 9, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
I’m just back from an eye-popping, heart-enlarging trip to Brazil. I visited several churches, met and preached to hundreds of church planters, and witnessed first-hand the remarkable outpouring of grace taking place in that beautiful country. To be frank, Brazilian believers make me feel like we are just “playing church” in the US. I was moved, convicted, and encouraged.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
Few Christian evangelism and mission initiatives have had as significant and lasting an impact as the Lausanne Movement. The Lausanne vision for a global and unified witness for gospel proclamation arose in the hearts of Billy Graham, Carl Henry, and John RW Stott.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
thegospelcoalition.org | David P. Cassidy |Joe Carter |Jen Wilkin |Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra |Ivan Mesa
Editors’ note: Earlier today pastors around the United States led their congregations in praying in the wake of yesterday’s failed assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump. We offer one such prayer by David Cassidy, pastor of Spanish River Church in Boca Raton, Florida. Below is a lightly edited version shared with permissionIt is with profound shock, grief, and sadness that our country is once again facing the specter of political violence.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
“And he showed me a little thing… a hazelnut lying in the palm of my hand…In this little thing, I saw three properties. The first is that God made it. The second is that God loves it. The third is that God keeps it.” - Julian of NorwichA contemplation of creation often starts with the grandeur of oceans and mountains, skies and deep space, with the telescopic rather than the microscopic.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the dep.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
During our brief series on Jonah, I won’t be able to preach on a feature of Jonah’s prayer that I nevertheless believe is very important and want to offer to you today in written form. Here it is: Jonah’s prayer is not an isolated cry but a life-long learned petition deeply rooted in the language and themes of the Psalms. Understanding this connection offers us vital lessons about how we can learn to pray with deeper faith, hope, and love.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
Theologically speaking, food is part of the connective tissue of the covenant community. The Bible begins and ends with a shared meal - the first a disastrous, one-course affair (Genesis 3) and the latter a magnificent wedding celebration (Revelation 19). In between these, God saved his people from slavery and death via a meal (Exodus 12), ate and drank with the elders of Israel (Exodus 24:9-11), and rescued his people from annihilation by a series of feasts (Esther).
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May 27, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. - JN 15:13My American friends, I see that you a very religious people. As I walk around your chief city named for your most excellent of men and see its many memorials and testimonies to your power, I see you are people who love freedom. You extol the virtues of liberty, personal responsibility, and heroic achievement. I want to speak with you about the freedom you claim as your great birthright.
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May 25, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
Last week, I was privileged to meet with the Worship-Arts staff at Spanish River, led by the remarkable Eric Blythe. Eric and I had been discussing the power of beauty as a window to God’s glory and a witness to his love. We both believe that the work of artists is vital to the communication of the gospel and the edification of the Church in faith, hope, and love. This post contains some of the notes I used for that conversation.
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May 21, 2024 | 
davidpcassidy.com | David P. Cassidy
The following is very PCA Insider Baseball and is likely of interest only to those aware of the recent controversy regarding a proposed GA Seminar. Thanks for your visit here. Most of the Pastors and Officers of the Presbyterian Church in America who are shortly headed to Richmond, Virginia, for our annual General Assembly went to work a week or so ago thinking that all the plans for the upcoming “GA” were moving ahead peacefully.
