This week on Beyond the Message, Michael and Sam dive into Psalm 67:1-2, where we see that we are to care most about God’s glory to best handle God’s blessings. We unpack the sermon's main points and go beyond yesterday with additional insight into the text.

Highlights from the message:

Big Idea: Care most about God’s glory to best handle God’s blessings

Biblical blessing is unmerited favor from God that leads to closeness with God.This includes prosperity, all the beatitudes (from Matthew 5:2-12), discipline, trials, forgiveness, and ultimately God, through the work of Christ.

The purpose of God is for his way and salvation to be known in all the earth.

Be careful not to separate the blessings of God from the purposes of God.

Resources Currently Available at the Veritas Church Bookstore:

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth by Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart

A Short Guide to Reading the Bible Better by George H. Guthrie

Eat This Book: A Conversation in the Art of Spiritual Reading by Eugene H. Peterson

Knowing God's Truth by Jon Nielson

Tracing God's Story by Jon Nielson

Understanding God's Word by Jon Nielson

A Dozen Things God Did with Your Sin (And Three Things He'll Never Do): And Three Things He'll Never Do by Sam Storms

Inductive Bible Study by Richard Alan Fuhr and Dr. Andreas J. Köstenberger

Let the Nations be Glad by John Piper