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Sermons on Psalms

11 sermons in the archive.

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All Creation Praises Together

Victoria Gilmore · Psalm 148:7-14 · October 6, 2024

You'll come away with a concrete sense of what it means to join your voice to the praise of the whole created world, and two practical questions about how you're actually living that out.

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Rest, Renewal, and Coming Home

Victoria Gilmore · Psalm 23 · July 28, 2024

You'll hear teenagers fresh from a summer youth conference reflect honestly on what it means to truly rest, to step outside your comfort zone, and to let Psalm 23 become more than a familiar poem.

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Sing Something New

Victoria Gilmore · Psalm 98 · May 5, 2024

You'll hear why genuine worship isn't repetition but response, and how paying attention to what God is doing right now in your life can become the raw material for a song only you can sing.

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Blessing Beyond Borders

Hans-Erik Nelson · Psalm 22:25–31 · April 28, 2024

You'll hear how a psalm that begins with the cry of abandonment ends with a vision of every nation on earth finding their way back to God, and what that arc means for how you live and who you consider worth caring about.

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The Shepherd Who Leads

Hans-Erik Nelson · Psalm 23 · April 21, 2024

You'll hear how Psalm 23's six familiar verses carry a hidden argument: that following God is less about having life figured out and more about trusting a shepherd who already knows the path, including the dark valleys and the enemies on either side.

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Let Go and Sleep

Hans-Erik Nelson · Psalm 4 · April 14, 2024

You'll hear how an ancient psalm about enemies and sleeplessness points toward the same move Jesus and Peter both made: offering blessing instead of judgment, and how that practice might actually give you rest tonight.

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Friendship as Founding Principle

Hans-Erik Nelson · Psalm 119:63 · September 3, 2023

You'll hear the story of a nearly-derailed founding meeting in 1885 Chicago, and what the way those Christians handled conflict and disagreement reveals about how a church can hold both conviction and openness without sacrificing either.

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Obey God, Then Government

Victoria Gilmore · Psalm 119:63 · August 27, 2023

You'll hear a framework for what it actually means to submit to governing authorities as a Christian, including when obedience to government ends and resistance to it begins, drawn from Paul's Romans 13 alongside the stories of Nazi-era figures who defied unjust power at great personal cost.

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Where Lament Finds Its Home

Steve Lee · Psalm 22:1-2 and 29-31 · March 19, 2023

You'll hear how the human need to belong can lead us toward exclusion or toward God, and why crying out honestly in prayer is what turns isolation into praise.

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Stop, Then Choose

Hans-Erik Nelson · Psalm 25 · July 10, 2022

When you face a decision you can't see clearly, this sermon gives you permission to stop, wait, and trust that guidance will come before you move.

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Where Your Gaze Lands

Zach Riley · Psalm 34 · July 25, 2021

You'll hear a concrete argument that what captures your attention is literally shaping who you are becoming, and discover how a single verse from Psalm 34 offers a different kind of formation in a culture engineered to exhaust you.