Posts from August 2014

Oh sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless his name; tell of his salvation from day to day. Psalm 96:1-2 Have you ever gone to a big event and had someone come out and yell into a microphone, “How’s everyone doing tonight!?!”  My observation is that the proper response is not simply to answer, “Fine,” but to yell.  You don’t have to formulate words, just make noise.  And…

As we preach through our August sermon series, “Praying the Psalms,” we will be posting meditations on some of the psalms which we are encouraging you to pray through during the week.  This is the sixth meditation in the series. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good metaphor is worth a million, and a good poem is worth a billion! David chose the second and third options, giving us six simple verses that make up one of…

As we preach through our August sermon series, “Praying the Psalms,” we will be posting meditations on some of the psalms which we are encouraging you to pray through during the week.  This is the fifth meditation in the series. photo courtesy of flickr.com/photos/spyrospapaspyropoulos/ “Be still, and know that I am God.    I will be exalted among the nations,    I will be exalted in the earth!” Psalm 46:10 I once heard the national news broadcast described as, “bad things that happened today,” and the…

As we preach through our August sermon series, “Praying the Psalms,” we will be posting meditations on some of the psalms which we are encouraging you to pray through during the week.  This is the fourth meditation in the series. I am currently in the process of training for a long charity bike ride, a much longer ride than I have ever done before. The day after every day that I go on a challenging training ride, I’m really sore. It’s…

As we preach through our August sermon series, “Praying the Psalms,” we will be posting meditations on some of the psalms which we are encouraging you to pray through during the week.  This is the third meditation in the series. I have multiple articles of clothing that have permanent stains on them.  For me, the most common permanent stain is ink.  One of my rules of life is that I always carry a pen.  Sometimes I accidentally click the pen in…

As we preach through our August sermon series, “Praying the Psalms,” we will be posting meditations on some of the psalms which we are encouraging you to pray through during the week. I’m a city boy. I don’t like to admit it, seeing how I’m from the south and all. People assume I grew up in the country, so they are surprised when they don’t hear much of an accent in my voice. It’s because I’m a city boy. Actually, I…