📦 Before Sunday: This week is Serve Sunday. We’re packing 30,000 meals for Lifeline Christian Mission and writing cards for local First Responders, so the 11 AM service will be condensed — shortend worship set, communion, and a brief message, then we get to work. The stream will be running, but this is a morning to be in the room. Come be the church with us.
The Psalms spend 149 chapters on hard things — enemies, guilt, grief, and long stretches where God seems quiet. Then the book ends without asking for anything. Psalm 150 is six verses long and says praise thirteen times.
🏛️ “Praise God in his sanctuary” — praise starts with Him, not with how your week went. If our praise depends on everything going our way, we’re praising the circumstances
👑 Verse 2 gives two reasons: His mighty deeds and His excellent greatness — what God has done, and who God is. Even if He never did another thing for you, He’d still be worthy
🎺 Verses 3–5 are a list of instruments — trumpet, harp, tambourine, strings, cymbals. Different sounds, same purpose. Some of you sing, some teach, some cook, some show up early and stack chairs
🫁 “Let everything that has breath praise the LORD!” — not reserved for musicians and pastors and people who have it together. If you woke up this morning, you qualify
🙌 Paul tells us to present our bodies as a living sacrifice, and calls that our spiritual worship — which means worship doesn’t stop when the music does
Jesus said He always did what pleased the Father. His whole life was the offering, and He carried it all the way to the cross. He didn’t give God His time or His talent. He gave His life, and walked out of the grave so we could live ours the same way.
So this Sunday, bring your hands. Ask what God has already put in them, and use it. Praise isn’t just a song we sing. It’s a life we surrender.
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