I have chosen to focus on a range of human emotions. I am taking a somewhat different approach this time, however. So that’s what we’ll be doing this summer, only we’ll be sipping from different Psalms.
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I have done series from the Psalms before – I called it “Sipping from the Psalms”. Each one stands alone – so it is ideal for summer preaching. There is no chronology of events, no sequencing of thought, no large pattern. But the Psalms do not depend on continuity. It is impossible to sustain the continuity necessary for a typical sermon series. I always find it difficult to know what to preach on during the summer, with people coming and going. We are going to be studying a selection of Psalms during these summer months. Their transparency is so remarkable, that I sometimes find myself almost embarrassed, like I am reading someone else’s mail. But they also contain much raw human emotion, as the writers tore open their souls and shared their thoughts and feelings as they wrestled with the stuff of everyday life. The Psalms contain great theological truths and ideas and reflections. The Psalms are also introspective they are the record of the writer’s inner thoughts and experiences. Poetry is the form of literature most suited to the expression of emotions.
Nowhere are emotions more clearly on display than in the Book of Psalms. It also describes the emotions of the human characters whose stories are told in its pages. The Bible is a book that records the history of God’s dealings with the human race, beginning in eternity past and continuing, prophetically, into eternity future. Emotions are how we experience and respond to life. Someone has wisely said, “What the nervous system is to the body, emotions are to the soul.” Just as my nervous system informs the rest of my body when my foot steps on a thorn, so my emotions are the path by which life’s events and circumstances are processed and interpreted by and for my soul. Emotions are the interactions of our inner self to what is going on around us. These emotions are essential to what it means to be human. We live our lives on a rollercoaster of feelings sadness and joy, fear and confidence, anger and calm, hate and love, loneliness and camaraderie. I believe our emotions are part of the image of God embedded in us. The title of this sermon is taken straight from the text of Psalm 42 Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul? How do we deal with the down times in life? Join us as we search this psalm for clues.Īs human beings, we are all creatures of emotion. Synopsis: We are all subject to the ups and downs of human emotion.
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