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(Open by praying that the Lord prepared our hearts to hear from his word. Pray that our hearts would be steadfast.) Sometimes in music, artists will sample or borrow from other musicians in their creation of a song. A jaded ear might hear this and say that the newer artist has plagiarized or stolen,…

This morning’s Psalm is the beginning of book 5. This final book of the Psalm is the longest of the 5 books of the Psalms. Our psalm this morning begins the same was as last week’s. The same phrase that opens the last Psalm of book 4, also opens book 5 of the Psalms. The Psalms do not only start with…

This Psalm is the last Psalm of book 4. Similar to our Psalm from last week, this is also a historical Psalm. Psalm 105 looked back at stories of the patriarchs and the exodus and celebrated God’s faithfulness. Psalm 106 looks back at the wilderness generation, the failure to complete the conquest of…

The first 15 verses of our Psalm this morning are also found in 1 Chronicles 16:8-22 . This is the song David sings as the Ark of the Covenant has returned to Jerusalem and then the ark is placed in the tent of meeting. 1 Chronicles 16 also includes parts of Psalm 96 and Psalm 106 . While this doesn’t…