Psalm 127 “Many people live as if heaven would be an unwelcome intrusion into their busy schedule.” Can you identify with that?! Listen in and find out what might drive our busyness, and how to discover the blessing of deep rest.
Sermons on Psalms (Page 4)
Psalm 6The Sunday School song goes “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands”. But what if you’re not happy, and you know it? Then what? That is when we need the psalms of lament.
Psalm 5At one level prayer is like breathing or talking – we don’t need to be taught how to do it. But at another level prayer is something we do need to learn and get better at. And there is no better place to go than the Psalms, the prayer-book of the Bible. What we have here is a masterclass in prayer.
Psalm 4Ever struggle to get to sleep at night? Ever lie there with your mind and heart filled with worries and fears and problems? In this psalm King David shares the secret of how to sleep in joy and peace, even when your world is falling apart.
Psalm 3We all know that Monday morning feeling – the worries, the fears, the pressures. The writer of this psalm could relate. And can help us. But first we need to see that this psalm in the first place is not just about me and my problems. It’s about the Christ.
Psalm 2 Liberal democracy seems to be in crisis. Authoritarian states are increasingly powerful. Right-wing nationalism is in full swing. Global conflict seems increasingly likely. Where is the world heading? We know because God has revealed it in Psalm 2. And if we are wise, we will get on the right side of history.
Psalm 1 “The pursuit and definition of happiness has occupied humanity since time immemorial”. But in the news this past week, Google’s chief business officer reckons he’s found the equation for guaranteed happiness. But even if he had, why is being happy actually not enough?
Psalm 84:1-12 What’s it like to praise God from the heart? what effect does praising God have on us? Psalm 84 has the answer. Listen in and calibrate our heart as we praise the Lord.
Psalm 90 Time is one of the most valuable gifts we have – but it is also one of our biggest sources of stress. So often we feel we just don’t have enough time in the day or the week to get things done. And we are conscious that our time on the planet is all too short. What is the solution? Psalm 90 gives us the perspective of the everlasting God.
Psalm 103 According to Richard Dawkins: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Although not all of us might express it quite like Dawkins does (!), many people question whether such a God should be worthy of our worship and love. Listen in as we consider this question together.