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Updating Our Faith

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 149, reflecting on how God's word constantly challenges anew, with "foreign languages" of justice and "updating" our understanding of God.

Psalm 149

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Mercy, Justice, Meditation, Sanctification

Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation for Advent on Psalm 122. "We are called to worship in the beauty of God’s holiness (Psalm 46:10).

Psalm 122

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Peace (spiritual), Jerusalem, Shalom

Do You Love the Bible?

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 3 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of lament and confession, and a personal meditation on Psalm 119:137-144, reflecting on why so many of us distance ourselves from the Bible.

Psalm 119:137-144

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Spiritual Growth, Temptation, Attributes Of God

Joy to the World

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 97 for Christmas Day.

Psalm 97

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Christmas, God's Presence, Justice, Reign Of God

Our All-inclusive God

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, a prayer of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 98. Some themes addressed: revelation, of God and personal experiences of it, and God's identity as all-inclusive and promise-keeping.

Psalm 98

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Creation, God's Will, Righteousness, Promises

Trust in God’s Unfailing Love

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon, Call to Worship, Prayer

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 52. "What tools do you have that God has blessed?"

Psalm 52

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David, Saul (king), Poverty, Wealth

Give Justice to the King, O God

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation, for Epiphany, on Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14, emphasizing the surprising nature of many revelations from God.

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14

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Epiphany, God's Holiness, God's Presence, Revelation

God's Royal Generosity

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 97, reflecting on the contrast between the wonder of God and our own "inadequacies."

Psalm 97

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God's Mercy, God's Power, Joy, Justice

Marriage as Means of Grace

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayer of thankfulness and praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 45:10-17, reflecting on leaders as God's "appointees," the gift of marriage, and vows of fidelity.

Psalm 45:10-17

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Faithfulness, Grace, Leadership, Marriage

Sing a new song to the LORD

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation for Christmas Day on Psalm 98. "Do we always have to be dignified when we worship God?"

Psalm 98

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Creation, Holiness, Joy, Music

Trust in God's Faithful Love

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, a prayer of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 89: 20-37. They touch on themes of praise and God's faithfulness shown through David's reign, completed in Jesus.

Psalm 89:20-37

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Praise, God's Faithfulness, David

God the Eternal King

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a meditation on Psalm 97, focusing on the themes of God's majesty and our experience of God's rule in our lives.

Psalm 97

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Glory, Reign Of God, Majesty

God's Worldwide Family of Faith

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 22:25-31, reflecting on worshipping God both together and alone and being open to new challenges in our ever-changing lives.

Psalm 22:25-31

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Community, Solitude, Change, Witness

The Joy of Lifted Guilt

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon, Call to Worship, Prayer of Confession

Joan Stott offers an Ash Wednesday call to worship, a prayer of confession, and a personal meditation on Psalm 51:1-17, highlighting the truth-telling role of worship and the generosity and joy of God lifting our guilt.

Psalm 51:1-17

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Truth, Guilt, Generosity, Forgiveness

Ascended and Ascending

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott reflects on Psalm 47 through a call to worship, prayer,and meditation, emphasizing "joy-filled excitement as we worship God on this Ascension Day." She is concerned lest worship and liturgy lose "all their zest."

Psalm 47

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Ascension, Call To Worship, Feast Of The Ascension, Joy

Three-in-One and One-in-Three

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, a prayer of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 29. Stott addresses themes of the trinity, hearing God's voice in nature, discerning that voice, and God's generous revelation.

Psalm 29

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Trinity, Creation, Voice, Discernment

O Lord, How Long Will You Be Angry?

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 3 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 79:1-9. The psalm is a lament, confession, and plea for help in response to Israel's exile.

Psalm 79:1-9

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Forgiveness, Salvation, Sin, Glory

Bend Down, God

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

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Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayer of petition, and a personal meditation based on Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17. It highlights our vulnerability as human beings and God's comfort and care that carries us through.

Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17

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Care, Lament, Trust, Vulnerability

An Appropriate Response

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

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Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 100, reflecting on how praise is the appropriate response to the character of God.

Psalm 100

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Dance, Hope, Reign Of Christ, Reverence

Renewed We Return

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 2 more types

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, a prayer of praise and petition, and a personal meditation on Psalm 138 touching on the themes of continuity in our worship and life and God's "new social order."

Psalm 138

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Daily Living, God's Work, Liturgy, Shalom