Showing posts with label Psalm 139:1-6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psalm 139:1-6. Show all posts
1/15/2024
Known - Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 - MLK Sunday - 1-14-24
1/17/2021
Known - Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18 - Martin Luther King, jr. Sunday - 1-17-21
Sermon podcast from the Martin Luther King, jr. Sunday - 1-17-21 online worship service - St. Paul's UCC in Downers Grove, IL. Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
1/13/2012
You Get Me
This week's Bible reflection (A Window to the Soul) begins the sermon for Martin Luther King, jr. Sunday at Union Congregational United Church of Christ in Somonauk, IL.
"You Get Me" text
"You Get Me" podcast
"You Get Me" text
"You Get Me" podcast
1/10/2012
A Window to the Soul
The psalms are true. They provide a window to the soul.
I don’t mean that everything in the psalms can be read as accurate as it expresses who God is. Instead, I mean that the psalms are true because they communicate the raw emotions of folks and their life experience. They communicate folk’s relationships with God throughout life’s journey.
The psalms also provide a window to the joy, sorrow, celebration, anguish, happiness, sadness, jubilation, and anger that God’s people have experienced. And even more, they offer a glimpse into the songs and prayers that generations, Jesus included, have sung and prayed.
Praying and singing the psalms connects a person and a community now with a person and a community that came before. Praying and singing through the joy, sorrow, celebration, anguish, happiness, sadness, jubilation, and anger help give individuals and communities a closer bond with others who have come before. They bring us closer to God.
Why not pray or sing a psalm today?
I don’t mean that everything in the psalms can be read as accurate as it expresses who God is. Instead, I mean that the psalms are true because they communicate the raw emotions of folks and their life experience. They communicate folk’s relationships with God throughout life’s journey.
The psalms also provide a window to the joy, sorrow, celebration, anguish, happiness, sadness, jubilation, and anger that God’s people have experienced. And even more, they offer a glimpse into the songs and prayers that generations, Jesus included, have sung and prayed.
Praying and singing the psalms connects a person and a community now with a person and a community that came before. Praying and singing through the joy, sorrow, celebration, anguish, happiness, sadness, jubilation, and anger help give individuals and communities a closer bond with others who have come before. They bring us closer to God.
Why not pray or sing a psalm today?
1/12/2009
Wondering out loud
Here's this week's Bible study blog entry for i.ucc:
Sometimes a good “WOW!” really helps to lift my spirit. This week I’m on vacation on a tiny island in the Caribbean, and as I look out over the ocean and feel the cool breeze in my face, I think "WOW – this is so marvelous” and I can’t help but wonder out loud, “How much goodness and feelings of awe can one person experience?!”
I think that the experience of the Psalmist from this week’s reading from Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, while not related to a wonderful experience on a tropical island, is nevertheless one that was inspired by a “WOW” moment and I think that it expresses the writer wondering out loud the wonder of God’s creation and God’s care for each of us. I think it wonders out loud how vast God’s thoughts are – and yet how in the hugeness that is God, there is room for something deeply personal between the psalmist and God.
- What kinds of “WOW” moments have you experienced?
- What things have you wondered out loud about God?
- What other thoughts do you have this week?
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