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August 31, 2025 Speaker: Paul Martin Series: Delighting in God

Topic: Expository Preaching

 

  1. Be in the moment

“The world rings with praise — lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favourite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favourite game — praise of weather, wines, dishes, actors, motors, horses, colleges, countries, historical personages, children, flowers, mountains, rare stamps, rare beetles, even sometimes politicians or scholars. …men spontaneously praise whatever they value, so they spontaneously urge us to join them in praising it: ‘Isn’t she lovely? 

Wasn’t it glorious? Don’t you think that magnificent?’

The Psalmists, in telling everyone to praise God, are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about…

…we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed…” (C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms. (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1958), pp. 93–97)

 

  1. Be with God
    1. Word
    1. Prayer

 

  1. Be around others
    1. Fellowship
    1. Evangelism

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