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God Loves Wanderers
Psalm 107 reveals a God who doesn’t just love people from all over, but a God who pours out His never-giving-up love on all kinds of people. The reach of God’s love has no bounds! God loves all kinds from all over with a sure and steady love. One particular kind that God draws into his divine love are wanderers. The wanderers are making their way through a desert looking for a secure city, food to fill, and water to quench. In the love of God our wandering hearts finally make it home.
Why plant a church?
We are new church plant. That fact alone often generates a number of questions from people. Often, chief among those questions is: why? Why start another church? As a church, we believe there are three great reasons to invest our time, energy, finances, and lives into the effort to plant a new gospel work. We believe that church planting is (1) biblical, (2) effective, and (3) God-honoring.
God Loves All Kinds
Psalm 107 celebrates the expansiveness of God’s love—his love extends to all corners of the earth and to all kinds of people. The body of Psalm 107 deploys four vivid stories of God’s love in action. According to these stories, not only does God’s love reach into four different geographies, but also into the lives of four kinds of people. The point is this: Go in every direction and you will find people that God loves, and you will find that God loves all kinds of people.
Worship Fuels Mission
Psalm 107 reminds us that mission overflows from worship. Praising God for his redeeming love is the fuel for proclaiming that love to our neighbors and the nations. Mission wells up from worship and leads to worship.
From East and West, North and South
God’s love reaches into every land. Turn in every direction: go north, south, east, and west; go as far as humanly possible and you will find there people that God loves. Psalm 107 invites us to consider God’s great love and to praise him for it.
Why would God listen to my prayers?
Often, when we pray, we feel as though God is not listening. We’ve come to believe that we don’t deserve his attention because of what we’ve done. Or, we imagine he must have a lot on his plate, running the universe and all, so we really shouldn’t bother him with our troubles. But, the picture the Bible paints of prayer is that God the Father hears our prayers just like his Son Jesus. It is as if we speak with Jesus’s voice when we pray.
O Give Thanks to the Lord - Psalm 107
Over the next three months at Christ the King, we will let Psalm 107 direct our prayers personally and corporately, drawing our attention to God’s goodness and steadfast love. In verse 1, the psalm bursts onto the page with exuberant and contagious thankfulness to the Lord: “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!”