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This feed broadcasts the latest sermons and Sunday schools from Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) in Novato, CA. Our sermons seek to exposit Scripture, preaching Christ and the cross, and understanding the impact and demand of the Word on our lives. Church, Novato, Marin, Hankins, Sermon, Christian, OPC, San Rafael Rev. W. Reid Hankins Rev. W. Reid Hankins info@trinityopcnovato.org no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/02/glory-god-worship/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/02/glory-god-worship/#comments Mon, 03 Jan 2011 07:32:54 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/?p=1128 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2011/01/02/glory-god-worship/feed/ 0 0:37:06 Sermon preached on Psalm 29 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/2/2011 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Novato, Marin County, CA Psalm 29 01/02/11 The Glory of God in Worship Today[...] Sermon preached on Psalm 29 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins during the Morning Service at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 1/2/2011 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins, M.Div. Novato, Marin County, CA Psalm 29 01/02/11 The Glory of God in Worship Today we begin a short miniseries on worship. This series will be a trilogy – a simple three part series. Today’s message will be on “The Glory of God in Worship.” Next week will be “The Fear of God in Worship.” The last topic will be “The Grace of God in Worship.” And so today we’ve just read a psalm about the glory of God. It’s a psalm that calls for God to be glorified. Before we dig into this psalm, I think it would be helpful actually define in broad terms what it means to glorify God. Well, the word “glorify” comes from the word glory. So to glorify something, is to give glory to something. To give glory to something then is to attribute honor and praise to something. It’s to exalt something. It’s to draw attention to its beauty and majesty. It’s to highlight its value. You can glorify something in a false way. Like false flattery. False flattery is giving glory and honor to someone who is undeserving of it. That’s glorifying someone, but the glory you are attributing to that person isn’t true glory. The glory you’re attributing to them is a lie. But not so with God. When we talk about glorifying God, we’re talking about exalting him before all with the glory that is actually his. We honor him, and praise him, for who he is. For what he’s done. For our special relationship with him. Write those down. When we think about what we are glorifying God in, think of those categories. We can glorify God for who he is, for what he’s done, and for our special relationship with him. Those three categories can give you an endless source of content for which to glorify God. How you glorify God can be done in different ways. You can glorify him in your efforts to live godly. If that’s done in response to his majesty, it glorifies him. You can glorify him through your evangelism, telling others of his glory and his plan of salvation. Those are just two examples. But probably the most natural way to glorify God is through our public worship. It’s that aspect of glorifying God which we’ll be considering today. As we look at this psalm, we realize that it is especially calling us to glorify God in public worship. And so we’ll think about this psalm from that perspective. As we look at this psalm, we’ll see that it talks about God’s glory poetically. It gives a poetic picture of God’s glory through the context of a storm. This psalm shows how God’s glory is seen in a powerful storm, full of thunder and lightning. Evidently this has been a psalm typically read to children or even congregations during a big storm. The storm points us back to the glory of God. Let’s dig in and analyze this psalm, and think about how it calls us to glorify God in our worship. The first section of the psalm is in verses 1-2. This is a common thing we’ll read at the Call to Worship in our Sunday service. Simply put, it’s a call to glorify God. It makes this call very poetically, using typical Hebrew repetition and parallelism. Verse 1 repeats the call twice. It uses the same command “give” twice here. Some translations use the word “ascribe”. I prefer that translation, but it’s the same idea. Give, ascribe, unto the Lord glory and strength. It’s a call to acknowledge and identify the glory of God to all. It highlights his strength here too, which is yet another thing that brings glory to God. Verse 1 had parallelism in it, repeating the call to give glory to God. Verse 2 is now a parallel of verse 1, and it has parallelism within it as well. V[...] Psalms, Worship Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/06/28/westminster-shorter-catechism-101/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/06/28/westminster-shorter-catechism-101/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:33:50 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.novatoopcsermons.org/?p=405 http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2009/06/28/westminster-shorter-catechism-101/feed/ 0 0:34:50 Adult Sunday School on Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 101 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 06/28/2009 in Novato, CA. Adult Sunday School on Westminster Shorter Catechism Question 101 by Rev. W. Reid Hankins at Trinity Presbyterian Church (OPC) on 06/28/2009 in Novato, CA. Rev. W. Reid Hankins no no http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/02/03/westminster-shorter-catechism-question-1/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/02/03/westminster-shorter-catechism-question-1/#comments Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:46:32 +0000 Pastor Reid Hankins http://www.novatoopcsermons.org/2008/02/03/westminster-shorter-catechism-question-1/ http://www.trinityopcnovato.org/2008/02/03/westminster-shorter-catechism-question-1/feed/ 0