Pump up the volume - 3 July 2009 |
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I don’t know how many Ministers really look forward to coming home from holiday and hearing what has been preached during their absence. But I do, and with very good reason.
Some highlights from ‘High volume praise’, a sermon from Psalm 47, preached by Steve Hayhow on 21 June 2009:
Singing Psalms has become counter-cultural – but the problem is, it’s become counter-cultural in the church!
We sing about some strange things when we sing Psalms. God has thrown some strange things in there. But they’re only strange to us because we’re not immersed in them, because they’re not the musical vocabulary that we use all the time. They’ve become something odd, and different, because of our neglect of them.
God is dealing with the world. God is dealing with all the nations … this is not a tiny thing that God is doing in one corner; this is a thing that God is doing for the salvation of the world.
‘Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with loud songs of joy’ – it’s more like a list of the things we would feel uncomfortable doing rather than the things we are used to doing.
Worship is a physical action. It’s not something you just do in your head … Because it’s physical, doesn’t mean it’s not spiritual.
When we sing, we should be singing with volume! … this is meant to be people making noise.
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Posted by Steve Jeffery · Topics: Minister's Blog, Sermon outlines