New Story Church Paul D. Anderson

How do I pray when I feel like I have ruined my relationship with God? Psalm 130 is the prayer of someone headed to a worship service. On the way, he realizes that his relationship with God is completely broken, and it's all all his fault. This Psalm shows you how to pray when you find yourself there: in depths of your own brokenness, stuck inside yourself, wrapped in pain, trapped, lost.

This Sunday, professor, speaker, and author, Dr. Duffy Robbins, will introduce us to a Biblical way to lament what is wrong in our world and in us. Using Psalm 13 as a guide, Duffy will show us how to pray our laments and even write our own psalm of lament.

It's through hearing about what God has done in your life that others can begin to know the goodness of God. In Psalm 40, we find David standing at the Temple. He’s come to offer a thank offering to God, but, when he listens to God, he discovers that what God desires more than a sacrifice is for David to tell others what He has done for him. Then, many will see and fear and trust in the Lord.

Am I safe? Who am I? Who are you? Who am I to you? These are the questions that give our lives shape and meaning. This is where we begin to figure out what it means to be human. And yet, these are questions that you cannot answer on our own. Modern Psychology and ancient Hebrew wisdom agree: if you are ever going to answer these questions, you need Someone to know you. You need to feel seen. You need to experience Someone else experiencing you. In Psalm 139, King David invites us to experienc...

In Psalm 84, we stumble into a prayer that reads more like a juicy love letter than what we usually think of as prayer. These are the words of someone who has been wrecked by the love of God. He is sick with love. At times, he almost sounds insane. His voice cracks. He can hardly breathe. And, by praying this prayer, we learn to open up our hearts to more & more of His love.

In Psalm 8, David helps us get oriented to reality. If all you've ever known is the observable universe, this might be a bit hard to imagine. The universe David takes us into is much more vast. But he doesn't take us there to get lost. Rather that is the only place we can truly find ourselves. David guides us into this incomprehensibly vast "kingdom of God" so that we can find our place in the midst of it all.