What does Tribe teach about remembering god's faithfulness?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At Tribe, the teaching on remembering God's faithfulness starts with a simple and sobering observation from Psalm 78. The warriors of Ephraim were fully armed with bows and still turned back in battle, and the text gives the reason plainly: they forgot. Brian Hunter draws a straight line from that ancient retreat to the battles people face today. The point is not sentimental. Brian says, "When you remember, it is a weapon." Remembering what God has done is not a way of looking backward. It is how you fight right now.
The teaching is anchored in the story of water from the rock in the desert. Brian asks the congregation to sit with how unlikely that miracle was. God had every option available to him, including moving camp, causing rain, filling flasks, or bringing up a spring. He chose none of them. He brought water from a rock because that outcome admits no other explanation. Every other option leaves room for a human contribution. Water from a rock had to be God, and that was the point. The miracle was designed to be undeniable. Brian connects this to a pattern that runs through scripture: sometimes the faith that opens the door is not your own. Moses struck the rock, and Israel received the water. The paralyzed man's friends carried him to Jesus, and he was healed. Provision does not always wait for your faith to be fully formed.
Tribe marks this each year through a tradition called Pecky Day, named after a tropical bird that landed on the Hunter family's apartment balcony in 2007 when Brian and Lissa were hundreds of dollars short of covering their bills. Returning the lost bird put exactly what they needed in Lissa's hands. Brian says the reward was "the exact amount that we were short that month." The family keeps a physical board at home where they record specific moments when God came through, and every year they bring that practice into the church. The reason is practical: you cannot ask God to do it again if you have never kept a record of the first time. Remembering builds the kind of faith that expects God to move, because it is built on what he has already done.
Taught from Psalm 78:1-16 · Psalm 78:9 · 1 Corinthians 10:4 · Joshua 4:1-7 · Habakkuk 3:1-2
“When you remember, it is a weapon.”
From New Wine, New Wineskins
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 10:4
4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
World English Bible
Messages that go deeper
- November 17, 2025 New Wine, New Wineskins Pastor Brian Hunter shares how remembering God's past faithfulness arms us for today's battles, using the story of water from the rock and a surprising $750 miracle.
- November 16, 2025 Pecky Day Brian Hunter shares how God made water pour from a rock in the desert, and why remembering past provision arms us with real faith for today's battles.
- November 21, 2023 Pecky Day Brian Hunter shares Pecky Day, a Hunter family tradition of remembering God's faithfulness, woven through Joshua 23 and an unlikely answer to prayer in Tulsa.
- December 5, 2022 Pecky Day at Tribe Brian Hunter shares how a tropical bird, a reward sign, and $900 taught his family to remember God's provision, and why Tribe celebrates that story every year.