Isaiah chapter 40 offers a beautiful and powerful picture of God’s character and attributes, which I’ll read for us this morning as we ask the Lord to call our hearts and minds to worship. In this chapter, we see the Lord telling Isaiah to go up on the high mountain and cry out the good …
I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart;I will recount all of your wonderful deeds.I will be glad and exult in you;I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. (Psalm 9:1–2 ESV) Exhortation Notice a couple of things: The repetitive phrase “I will…” Worship is not passive. It involves deliberate …
Leader:Lift up your heads, O gates!And be lifted up, O ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in.Who is this King of glory?ALL:The Lord, strong and mighty,the Lord, mighty in battle! Leader:Lift up your heads, O gates!And lift them up, O ancient doors,that the King of glory may come in.Who is this King of …
Leader: Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;ALL: for his steadfast love endures forever!Leader: Let Israel say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.”Leader: Let the house of Aaron say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.”Leader: Let those who fear the Lord say,ALL: “His steadfast love endures forever.” (Psalm 118:1–4 ESV)
Exhortation: Our call to worship today is Psalm 130, which we’ll hear in its entirety. One of the benefits of the Psalms is that, in addition to teaching propositional truths, the Psalms demonstrate the experiential, emotional life of the believer that accompanies those truths. We’re not just heads, we’re heads attached to hearts. We have …
This is the day that the LORD has made;let us rejoice and be glad in it.Psalm 118:24 The “day that the Lord has made” in Psalm 118:24 is not just any day. The psalmist is not saying “God has made today, just like he did yesterday, and every day that God makes is reason to …
We’ll begin worship this morning with a congregational call to worship from Psalm 113. A “call to worship” is an exhortation to others to worship. By reading this congregationally, we invite one another to join in God’s praise. Before we recite this passage I want to point out a few things. This passage tells us …
Scriptures You ascended on high,leading a host of captives in your trainand receiving gifts among men,even among the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.(Psalm 68:18 ESV) “But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ’s gift. Therefore it says, ‘When he ascended on high he led a …
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat …
You’ve probably come here today after a long work week—a week in which you’ve labored behind a counter, at a desk, at the site, on the road, in the office, with the customer, or wherever work has taken you. The point is that you showed up and did the work to reap the reward of …