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Series: (2024) Psalms

Psalm 40

September 1, 2024
We've all been in situations where we needed rescued. Maybe your situation was dire, maybe it wasn't all that life-threatening. But either way, we know the thrill of deliverance; the joy of rescue. Psalm 40 celebrates the deliverance of God, even though the battle isn't yet won.
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Passage: Psalm 40
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Psalm 92

August 25, 2024
In this sermon on Psalm 92, Josh Krueger, one of our Men's Ministry leaders, uses the metaphor of three lenses—mirror (self-centered), magnifying glass (focused on others' flaws), and telescope (focused on God)— and challenges listeners to examine their perspectives. True spiritual growth and peace come from surrendering to Jesus as the Most High, not just as King, and living with a heart open to God’s will.
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Passage: Psalm 92
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Psalm 44

August 18, 2024
We all suffer. We all go through hardship and pain, or as the Dread Pirate Roberts says in The Princess Bride, "Life is pain, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something." Andrew Brooks, River City's Student and Youth Director, teaches from Psalm 44 and uncovers the truth that orienting our hearts around God's word before we suffer is what drives us through the challenges of suffering. If we're oriented around what is true before hardship comes, it's much easier to re-orient ourselves in and after the moment.
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Passage: Psalm 44
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Psalm 49

August 11, 2024
The author of Psalm 49 is seeing the power of money used against him, through bribes and manipulation. It's a riddle to him, but he comes to the conclusion that as powerful as money is here on this earth, it cannot cross the line into eternity. Death is the great equalizer where we all stand (rich or poor, master or slave, influential or unknown) before God on level ground, and Yahweh himself is the only one who has the power to redeem us from death.
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Passage: Psalm 49
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Psalm 37

July 28, 2024
God doesn't only seem to tolerate evil, he seems to just let it go. He seems to let the evildoers get away with murder, while those who trust the Lord end up suffering or being persecuted. In Psalm 37, David sees the same thing and gives us a blueprint to follow.
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Passage: Psalm 37:1-40
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Psalm 32

July 21, 2024
When you sin, how quickly do you repent? David held on to one of his sins for over a year! And his words in Psalm 32 are that it ate him up. He was physically affected because of his sin. Finally he couldn't take it anymore, and stopped trying to cover up his own sin. He confessed it and found that when he did – the LORD covered his sin for him! So he tells us: "Don't do what I did! Repent IMMEDIATELY!"
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Passage: Psalm 32
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Psalm 27

July 14, 2024
Our hearts are begging us to seek the face of God. It’s what we were designed to do, and it’s where so much idolatry happens. In our flesh, we try to fill that emptiness and longing with lots of other things. David recognizes that his heart is pointing him to Yahweh, and so the one thing he wants more than anything else is not deliverance from his enemies, perfect health, or long life; he wants to live every single day of his life in the presence of God.
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Passage: Psalm 27:1-14
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Psalm 22

July 7, 2024
Jesus utters these words from the cross: “My God, my God; Why have you abandoned me?” First of all, is that even possible? Can God the Father actually abandon God the Son? No. Is Jesus asking a question looking for answers? No. He knows exactly what is happening. So if it’s not a question, and it’s not even possible - what is Jesus saying and why is he saying it? What if he is pointing to Psalm 22 from the cross?
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Passage: Psalm 22
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Psalm 16

June 30, 2024
For most of us, our home is the place we feel the safest, the most secure. That’s pretty normal and to be expected. But home can be taken away from you by any number of events or circumstances. So where then do you look for security, for rest, for peace, for refuge? David points to only one place, one Person who can provide that for us.
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Passage: Psalm 16
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Psalm 14 & 15

June 23, 2024
David observes that it is the fool who lives as if there is no God, and yet he also observes that 100% of us live that way. Yet, there is a group of people God calls "his own," a group he calls "righteous." So the question becomes, who are those people, why has God chosen them, and how do you move from "all have sinned" to "and are justified freely"?
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Passage: Psalm 14-15
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