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Do you ever feel overwhelmed or inadequate-that you somehow don't measure up to life's challenges? Do you feel as if life has left you lacking and wanting something more? Psalm 23 is God's answer to our human wants. In just a hundred words, the psalmist tells us God is sufficient for all our needs and shortcomings. Join Pastor Kevin Broyhill on a journey through this remarkable portion of God's Word, and discover what it means to be sheep in the Lord's flock.

When I was an adolescent, I remember visiting the home of my favorite cousins. As I was hanging out one day, I noticed a plaque above one of my cousins' bed. It read, "I'm Third."Finding that an odd thing to look at every day, I asked my cousin what it meant. He replied, "It's simple really. What it means is that in my life, God is first, others are second, and I'm third."The more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me. What a great way to prioritize what is truly important in one's life. I was so impressed, I began to try to live by it.As I've gotten older, I've found that my life has been dedicated to the philosophy that should really read, "I'm Fourth." If I am honest in how I've tried to arrange the relationships in my life, I've had to revise the old saying. For me, God is still first, my family is second, others are third, and I'm FOURTH.

It's pretty much the norm these days-preachers going "political," speaking up for candidates who reflect common values and opinions. But the lines separating pulpit and politics, not to mention church and state, were not always as blurred as they are in our time. The harsh partisan tone, combined with the practice of take-no-prisoners-politics on the part of some Christian ministers in our day is something that can be traced back to one controversial pulpit-pounding powerbroker-J. Frank Norris. At the mid-point of the 1920s, people flocked to Norris's First Baptist Church in downtown Fort Worth, Texas-America's original "megachurch." He would do just about anything to draw a large crowd. Thousands came to witness his latest extravaganza. He was a folk-hero to many. To many others, J. Frank Norris was a MENACE. By the summer of 1926, he presided over a religious empire, one that included America's largest Protestant church, a tabloid newspaper that reached nearly 100,000 readers every Friday, and his own radio network that saturated cities and towns across the American Southwest. Norris had already survived multiple criminal indictments. He boasted that he could handle anything that came his way. He had fanatically loyal followers (including members of the Ku Klux Klan) and great lawyers. But would they be enough when he found himself charged with first-degree murder and face to face with "Sparky"-the nickname for the Texas electric chair?