Praise Among the People When we meet together for worship, we typically begin our services with congregational singing.  How you sing praise among the people tells where your heart is with God.  To sing these hymns “with grace in your hearts to the Lord”, Col 3:16, requires several things that...

Singing the Lords Song in a Strange Land Psalm 137:1-9 Judah is being led into captivity by Babylon in this passage. They are also being mocked by their captors who are requesting them to sing them the songs of Zion. Judah’s response in verse 4 is “How shall we sing...

The Bible gives us the best instruction on singing hymns.  When we sing hymns, we should sing the right songs and we should sing them the right way. We should sing to the Lord – Eph 5:19 – “to the Lord”.  Col 3:16 “to the Lord”.  Ex 15:1, 21 –...

Praise Is Comely Praise is comely for the upright.  Praise is suited to the upright.  That is, people expect to see an upright person praising the Lord.  When you’re not upright, you’re uptight, and praise isn’t comely.  More importantly, God is looking for your praise to be comely.  That is,...

Local Church Activities Eph. 3:21 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO There are three main local church activities in which every church should be involved.  And these three should be balanced.  Every true local church should glorify God, edify saints and evangelize sinners. Glorify God – Eph 3:20-21; Rom 15:6 This primarily...

 The Power of a Song Matthew 26:30 ; Acts 16:25-26 In the passage for this sermon we see someone singing unto the Lord. In both places great events followed the songs and I would imagine that these two songs were never forgotten by those that sung them. In this sermon...

The God of Praise 1 Chr. 16:8-9 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO You praise the God of praise with: Thanksgiving – David said, “Give thanks unto the Lord.”  This is the attitude of gratitude.  1 Thes 5:18 tells us that it is the will of God to give thanks to the...

In the prior broadcasts we studied the unruly tongue and its wicked manifestations.  In this broadcast we will study a good tongue and its various scriptural manifestations.  A good tongue is a: Learned tongue – Is 50:4 – “the Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned.”  This...

Singing Col 3:16 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Today’s message is on singing.  We are comparing modern so-called “Christian” music to the psalms and hymns and spiritual songs mentioned in Col 3:16 and Eph 5:19.  The purpose of this broadcast is to show you the contrast between the scriptural music of the...

The Greatest Friend of All John 15:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO We have been preaching a good bit on friends the last few days and indeed we need good friends.  But lest we overshadow the greatness of Jesus Christ as the greatest friend of all, we need to preach about him...