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Summer Mixtape: The Greatest Hits from the Psalms

Tuning the Heart’s Compass

Speaker: Pastor Angela Luk

Scripture: Psalms 67

Sermon Notes

1. God is the one who prospers us.

2. God’s desires, our hope

3. God’s ways, our life

God’s missions, our pursuit

The End Goal

Summer Mixtape: The Greatest Hits from the Psalms

Where is Your Joy?

Speaker: Pastor Stephen Hsu

Scripture: Psalm 1&2

WHY don’t we have joy?

a. We seek Worldly things (1:1, cf.2:1-3)

b. We Fear God’s law/judgement (1:4-6, cf. 2:4-5)

HOW do we find joy?

a. Savour His Word (1:2)

but whose DELIGHT is in the law of the Lord, and who MEDITATES on his law day and night.

—Psalms 1:2

b. Kiss His Son (2:6-12)

‘This is what I told you while I was still with you: everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms’

—Luke 24:44

3 Steps to be like a Tree (1:3)

1. Pray the Psalms

2. Sing the Psalms

3. Eat the Psalms

When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight…

—Jeremiah 15:16a

BIG IDEA:

The good life is about finding our joy in God’s Word/Son

Speaker: Rev. Shu-Ling Lee

Scripture: Psalm 23

Introduction

Question: Is it really possible to make the statement, “I lack nothing”?

1. By attaching yourself in faith to the Great Shepherd, you will lack nothing. (v.1)

2. By letting the Great Shepherd guide your path, you will lack nothing. (v.2-4)

3. By allowing His (hesed) love to fill you and overflow, you will lack nothing. (v.5-6)

Summer Mixtape: The Greatest Hits from the Psalms

Speaker: Rev. John Baik

Scripture: Psalm 121

Series intro: The Psalms are a collection of poetry that expresses and reveals the Christian life through music and lyrics that teach us how to deepen our relationship with God in our every day and even mundane lives.

Psalm 121 is a gentle and beautiful song that pleads the question we all ask when we find ourselves in troubled times: “Where does our help come from?”. The Psalmist answers the question by giving us 3 beautiful and meaningful images to answer the question.

1. Our Keeper is SLEEPLESS

2. Our Keeper PROVIDES

3. Our Keeper is WITH US SIDE BY SIDE

Conclusion:

The truths found in the Psalms help us in our troubles by not only knowing it, but to let the Word of God dwell in our hearts as a song that changes the outcome of our burden.

Minding God

Being Mindful of God’s Power

Rev. Ho-Ming Tsui

Scripture: Psalm 46

Two Disciplines to Steady us in Difficult Times:

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1. “Be Still” - ie Stop Trying to Rule the World

Worry is this deep sense that we know better than God how life ought to go (See Matthew 6:25)

Wrong Mindset: When the world is out of OUR control, the world is out of control.

Right Mindset: God is in control, and I will learn to trust him

The human experience - with all its joys and sorrows - is incomplete until God is in the picture (see Romans 8:28; Genesis 50:20)

Believe there is a reason for whatever he allows:

• Understand him more;

• Understand yourself better

• Re-prioritize something in your life

• Grow to be more like Jesus

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2. “Know that I am God” - Seek shelter in the right place

Conclusion: Are you Mind-full or Mindful?

Sermon Notes

YLD Sunday: Calling

Pastor Joey Ling

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 2:7-12

Why am I here today?

7 As apostles of Christ we certainly had a right to make some demands of you, but instead we were like children[a] among you. Or we were like a mother feeding and caring for her own children. 8 We loved you so much that we shared with you not only God’s Good News but our own lives, too.

9 Don’t you remember, dear brothers and sisters, how hard we worked among you? Night and day we toiled to earn a living so that we would not be a burden to any of you as we preached God’s Good News to you. 10 You yourselves are our witnesses—and so is God—that we were devout and honest and faultless toward all of you believers. 11 And you know that we treated each of you as a father treats his own children. 12 We pleaded with you, encouraged you, and urged you to live your lives in a way that God would consider worthy. For he called you to share in his Kingdom and glory.

—1 Thessalonians 2:7-12 (NLT)

A Compelling Example of Love

1. This is My Calling as a Disciple

2. This is My Calling as a Parent

• We are to choose our calling over our comfort

• No one has more influence on children than their parents.

3. This is Our Calling as a Church

“We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about his power and his mighty wonders.” —Psalm 78:4

Minding God:

The Way Home

Rev. Susie Choi

Scripture: Luke 15:11-32

Home is the center of my being where I can hear the voice that says: 'You are my beloved, on you my favor rests. -Henri Nouwen

Scandal Part 1: The Younger Son

1. The paradox of longing.

2. Bargaining: The wrong roadmap home.

3. Sola Gratia: How God brings us home.

Scandal Part 2: The Older Son

1. The paradox of belonging.

2. Works of righteousness: the wrong roadmap home.

3. Sola Gratia: How God brings us home.

Minding God:

Christian Mindfulness & Being Mindful of Others

Rev. Shu-Ling Lee

Scripture: Galatians 6:1-10 (NIV)

Sermon Notes

Church at Work:

Worship/Work

Rev. Ho-Ming Tsui

Scripture: Romans 12:1-8

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How can we close the gap between Sunday morning and Monday morning?

• Battle: Worship OR Work

• Balance: Worship AND Work

• Harmony: Work AS worship

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When does work become an opportunity to worship? When we:

1. Recognize the mercy of God (v. 1a)

2. Trust in the purpose of God (v. 1b-8)

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Conclusion: As a church…

We want you to bring your work INTO our worship

We want our worship to propel you back TO your work

Church at Work:

Work in the New Heavens and New Earth

Rev. Shu-Ling Lee

Scripture: Revelation 22:1-5 NIV

Introduction:

1. We will still be SERVING THE LORD (aka “working”) in the New Heavens and New Earth.

(Rev 22:1-3, Col 3:23-24)

The point of the resurrection…is that the present bodily life is not valueless just because it will die…What you do with your body in the present matters because God has a great future in store for it…What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring for the needy, loving your neighbor as yourself—will last into God’s future. These activities are not simply ways of making the present life a little less beastly, a little more bearable, until the day when we leave it behind altogether (as the hymn so mistakenly puts it…). They are part of what we may call building for God’s kingdom.

—N.T. Wright - Surprised by Hope

2. There will be no longer any CURSE OF WORK in the New Heavens and the New Earth.

(Rev 22:3, Gen 3:8-21)

3. JESUS CHRIST is the Center of the New Heavens and New Earth.

(Rev 21:22-26, Rev 22:5)

Conclusion

Question: What is your ONE THING?