Songs from the Heart: Crying out to God
September 25th, 2011 (PM) - By: Richard Blayney
The Psalms are a collection of songs and prayers, full of emotion and real-life situations, written to be sung and prayed corporately by God’s people. But often we can read them and find them a little confusing. Take Psalm 17. How can I sing or speak or pray that I am innocent before God? Or that God will answer my prayer? Or how can I assume that my enemies, if I can even think of any, are also God’s enemies. What does it mean ‘in righteousness I shall see your face’? When I need to cry out to God, how can Psalm 17 be a help to me if I don’t understand or if I feel like a hypocrite saying it?
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September 4th, 2011 (PM) - By: Richard Blayney
As you’ll have gathered, we’re taking a few weeks to look at some of the Psalms in our evening services and tonight we’re looking at Psalm 16. Psalm 16 was written by King David, when the nation of Israel was slowly coming into a time of blessing and prosperity. That said, there was plenty of [...]
Read More / ListenSongs from the Heart: Living with God
August 28th, 2011 (PM) - By: Rob Frame
How good is your imagination? Do you use it often, perhaps to imagine yourself somewhere else maybe sat on a beach somewhere with a better climate than this, sipping something cold? Or executing the perfect overhead kick into the top corner as the crowds go wild as you score the winning goal in the F.A. [...]
Read More / ListenSongs from the Heart: Denying God
August 21st, 2011 (PM) - By: Guest Preacher
I’m not very musical and never have been. When I was about 14 I was upstairs in my room listening to my Walkman with earphones on, having a little sing-along. Probably quite a loud sing-along. Anyway, next thing I know my mum has charged through my door looking really quite panicked and wanting to know [...]
Read More / ListenPsalm 13: How Long, O Lord?
September 26th, 2010 (PM) - By: Dan Martin
Dan Martin preaches from Psalm 13, “How Long O Lord?” as part of our series Songs From The Heart. You can download his slides here: Psalm 13 Dan made some comments on how we should think about the bestselling book, The Shack, in relation to what the Bible has to say about suffering. You can also [...]
Read More / ListenPsalm 12: God Will Protect
September 19th, 2010 (PM) - By: Jonathan Pryke
Heavenly Father, through your living Word, teach us to persevere and trust you for the future, however hard and hostile things may seem now. In Jesus name. Amen. We’re working through some of the early Psalms in this series, and this evening we come to Psalm 12. Please turn that up in the Bibles. You’ll [...]
Read More / ListenPsalm 11: God Sees Everything
September 5th, 2010 (PM) - By: Rod Earnshaw
But here’s the thing, the thing that David had to keep coming back to, the thing that he encourages us to come back to – for all the good reasons we have not to trust in God, we will always have better reasons to hold onto our trust in God.
Read More / ListenPsalm 10: Help for the Helpless
August 29th, 2010 (PM) - By: Rob Frame
Psalm 10 – ‘Help For The Helpless’ Have you ever experienced injustice? I experienced injustice at primary school, the one time I really got in trouble and was sent to the headmaster. It was a beautiful sunny day a bit like this one (?) me and my best friend were on a bank on the [...]
Read More / ListenPsalm 9: The Lord Reigns
August 22nd, 2010 (PM) - By: Matt Lillicrap
Psalm 9 calls us to praise God passionately for his victory, with praise that overflows to telling others, and translates to prayer for the victory we know will come.
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