Hill Country Bible Church Dripping Springs Sermons

Psalm 15 asks the right question. It is a question that really does get to the heart of the identity of every human being. If you want to know who you are, if you want to know why you have been given breath, if you want to know what in the world your life is about, you need to ask this question.

It is a question that gets right to the heart of the creative and sovereign purpose of God. It is a question that in its own way summarizes the entire redemptive drama. It is embedded in this question.

Who has the right to live in the presence of God?

And so, Psalm 4 is a wonderful look, a wonderful window into the heart of a man who's in the middle of that kind of trial, in the middle of the unthinkable. And in that way, it's a bit of a textbook for us on how to fight this spiritual war of trial.

This is a wonderful Psalm of hope and promise. But I would like to look at this Psalm as an interpretive lens with you this morning, maybe a different way of looking at Psalm 1 because there is a real way in which Psalm 1 really does summarize the life perspectives that are resident in every one of the Psalms. And I want to walk through the Psalms with you as if this Psalm is a God-given lens on the world in which you live, and therefore, it's a wonderful critique of the culture in which you live. There's a way in which Psalm 1 is very, very modern although very ancient because it speaks with such power to the weaknesses of the culture that we live.

Conflict happens in all relationships, and marriage tends to bring it out.

Friendship is one of the most forgotten elements of marriage. Many of you probably realize your spouse is supposed to be your friend, but you really see attraction and passion and romance as the core of marriage. If anything, you see marriage as primarily romance spiced with a little friendship. But really marriage is friendship spiced with a little romance.

The one area that provides us the most joy, or the most heartache, is relationships. The closer the relationship the more joy or heartache the relation brings.

We’re going to learn principles about ourselves that apply to all relationships, including marriage. Here’s what I’ve found: there are no married people issues; there are only people issues that get worse in marriage. Marriage doesn’t really create problems; it just reveals them.

If your life is really going to be equipped in any spiritual way for real life, we have to see how it is that faith in Christ or how it is that Christ actually does prepare you to face the unavoidable brutalities of life.

Many of us have deep questions: Does God love me? Is God for me or against me? This text is designed to give us a confidence that is rooted in the character and grace of God so that the followers of Jesus would be courageous, hopeful and unstoppable.

Romans 8:1, “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” That’s the essence of Christianity. That’s the central, foundational message of God to the world. This is what we announce. This is what we plead. This is what we lay down our lives to communicate to the nations and the neighborhoods: No condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.