The Futility of Worry and the Freedom of the Kingdom [Matthew 6:25-34]

October 25, 2026

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Date: 10/25/2026

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Matthew

Key Text: Matthew 6:25-34

Description:

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast,
Pastor Monty Simao continues our study
in the Gospel of Matthew —

where Jesus confronts the futility of worry
and calls His disciples to a different kind of security.

We plan.
We prepare.
We try to anticipate what tomorrow might bring.

But somewhere along the way,
responsible preparation can all too easily become anxious obsession —
as though the future rests entirely in our hands.

Yet if our heavenly Father provides
for the birds and the lilies,
how much more will He care for His own children?

And if He has already given us His Son,
what does that tell us about His faithfulness?

Perhaps the answer to tomorrow’s worries
begins with remembering
Whose hands hold tomorrow.

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Safe in the Shadow of the Almighty [Psalm 91:1-16]

December 14, 2025

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Date: 12/14/2025

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: Wisdom and Worship: Walking Through Psalms and Proverbs

Key Text: Psalm 91

Description:

Fear presses in…
uncertainty surrounds…
and the world feels anything but safe.

Where do you turn when danger feels real and protection, fragile?

Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, in our Wisdom and Worship study,
Pastor Monty Simao takes us to Psalm 91 —
a psalm that does not deny suffering or threat,
but declares that God is greater.

“The one who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.”

Here we meet the Lord as our refuge and fortress —
the One who covers, keeps, and delivers His people.

Ultimately, Psalm 91 finds its fulfillment in Jesus Christ —
the Son who entered a dangerous world at His first coming,
trusted the Father perfectly,
and faced suffering and death on our behalf.
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In this season of Advent, we remember that the Child in the manger
is our true shelter —
and the King who will return to deliver His people completely and forever.

Because our hope is not the absence of danger…
but the presence of the Almighty.

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Our Daily Bread [Matthew 6:11]

July 19, 2020

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Date: 07/19/2020

Preacher: Monty Simao, pastor

Series: The Church: The Lord’s Prayer, CoronaVirus

Key Text: Matthew 6:11

Description:

It’s the fourth petition of The Lord’s Prayer… but it’s the first aimed at our needs.

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Today on Scandia Bible Church Podcast, Pastor Monty Simao welcomes us back once again under our church’s steeple, amidst the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020, to continue his series on The Church, walking us through The Lord’s Prayer — which lays out a petition that not only protects our hearts against covetousness and anxiety, but inward focus.

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The Four Worries [Matthew 6:25-34]

August 14, 2011

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Date: 08/14/2011

Preacher: Jim Thurston, reverend

Key Text: Matthew 6:25-34

Description: Join us as we welcome back to our small country church, longtime missionary and “Pioneer of Christian Television in Chile,” Reverend Jim Thurston of Integrity Ministries.  In this sermon Reverend Thurston discusses the “Four Worries” that we all face and shows us that when we put the Lord first, there’s no need to worry, because He’ll supply our every need.

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Humility [1 Peter 5:5-7]

March 6, 2011

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Date: 03/06/2011

Preacher: Frank Acevedo, elder

Key Text: 1 Peter 5:5-7

Description: Humility is an essential characteristic of true piety, or of the person who is right with God. God humbles men in order to bring them to Himself, and it is when men humble themselves before Him that they are accepted. To “walk humbly with your God” completes the Divine requirements.

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