Palm Sunday 2024: Sermon Video Introduction: One of the things that happened in the medieval period was that the church calendar began to get cluttered up with numerous saints’ days and celebrations, ...
Crescendo and Conclusion
Psalm 150: Sermon Video Introduction: This is a short psalm, but it is densely packed with hallelujahs. There are twelve of them here, and one hallelu-el. Together they praise Jah, the covenant ...
Songs of Triumph
Psalm 149: Sermon Video Introduction: In Scripture, praise and true authority always go hand in hand. This is because it is faith that overcomes the world (1 John 5:4), and praise always overflows ...
Praise That Plunges
Psalm 148: Sermon Video Introduction: This is a psalm of praise in action. It begins in the highest heaven, and descends to the deeps, and invites everyone and everything in between to join ...
God of the High and Low
Psalm 147: Sermon Video Introduction: On the one hand, we know that God is far above us, higher than the highest heaven. But we must also confess that He is beneath our feet, supporting us ...
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
Psalm 146: Sermon Video Introduction: On the one hand, people have every reason to not put their trust in princes. The princes let them down over and over, again and again. You would think ...
What the Righteous Love to Talk About
Psalm 145: Sermon Video Introduction: The nature and character of God is of course worthy of all praise and adoration. But we are finite, and sinful on top of that, and so we cannot even begin ...
Why We Worship on Sunday
Sermon Video Introduction: With a handful of exceptions, Christians are overwhelmingly united in their willingness to worship God on the first day of the week. After all, we have been doing this ...
Genuine Health and Wealth/Psalm 144
Sermon Video Introduction: This psalm overlaps a good deal with what David prayed in Psalm 18, as well as in 2 Samuel 22, near the end of his life. His life had been one long series of battles ...
Psalm 143/Fifteenth Decade of Psalms
When Sinners Withstand the Wicked: Sermon Video Introduction: This psalm is offered up to God in a time of great distress. We do not know if it is from the time of Saul’s persecution, or ...