Resources on Joan Stott

Community, God's Love, Relationship, Home

The Bright Light of God's Love

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness and petition, and a personal meditation on Psalm 67, reflecting on the abundance of God's love that is enough to warm each and every person.

Psalm 67

Blessing, God's Love, Gifts From God

God's Kingdom Values

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

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

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of confession and trust, and a personal meditation on Psalm Psalm 106: 1-6, 19-23, reflecting on being chosen, why God "claims" people, and God's guidance and blessing through...

Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23

Faithfulness, Selfishness, Blessing, Desire

Grace Journeys With Us

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of trust and thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 23, reflecting on how we are sent out—with God—into life only after we are quieted and rested.

Psalm 23

Fear, Shepherd, God's Presence, Sending

The Earth Will Acknowledge the LORD

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 22:23-31. The meditation explores implications of the psalm's statement that "the poor will eat and be satisfied."

Psalm 22:23-31

Forgiveness, Praise, God's Presence, Poor

How Wonderful, How Pleasant!

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 133. Harmony is as central to our relationship to God, as it is in music.

Psalm 133

Blessing, Oil, Dew, Unity

The Double Blessing

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness and trust, and a personal meditation on Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16, reflecting on the "double blessing" of being sheltered both from and by God.

Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16

Trust, God's Will, Security In God, Names

Unless God Is Central to Our Life

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers, and a personal meditation on Psalm 127. "People are blessed who rest peacefully in God’s care."

Psalm 127

Blessing, Rest, Solomon, Wisdom

God Blesses Us

Joan Stott | Re-Worship

Joan Stott's responsive call to worship inspired by Psalm 138:3 reflects on God's faithfulness, God's attentiveness, and God's hospitality. The litany praises God for blessing us with mercy and strength during the difficulties of life.

Psalm 138:3

Blessing, God's Faithfulness, God's Love, Hospitality

Let Us Celebrate Your Goodness

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, a prayer of thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 122 reflecting on the cataract-surgery-like experience of worship, rejoicing, and being sent out as God’s own people.

Psalm 122

Blessing, Worship, Sacred Space, Joy

Fulfilling My Vows

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19, reflecting on what "fulfilling my vows" might look like in our personal lives.

Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19

Blessing, Praise, Thanksgiving, God's Presence

God's Eternal Presence

Joan Stott | Re-Worship

Prayer of Praise or Thanksgiving

A prayer of praise and trust based on Psalm 139. It emphasizes God's presence with us, God's nurture and blessing of us, and God's trust leading to revelation to us.

Psalm 139

Prayer, Praise, Trust, Blessing

To Worship Our Glorious God

Joan Stott | Re-Worship

This is a call to worship based on Psalm 78:1-7. It speaks of God as Timeless God, Awesome God, and Glorious God.

Psalm 78:1-7

Mercy, Hope, Trust, Faithfulness

Tell What the Lord Has Done

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness, and a personal meditation on Psalm 118:14-29, reflecting on themes of testimony and witness—telling of God's goodness as we ourselves have experienced it.

Psalm 118:14-29

Witness, Testimony, The Gospel, Attributes Of God

Wonderful Love and Mercy

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness and praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21, reflecting on how God, full of love and mercy, is worthy of all our praise.

Psalm 145:1-5, 17-21

Blessing, Joy, Praise, Creation

May All Nations Praise God

Joan Stott | Re-Worship

A responsive call to worship litany based on Psalm 67. "May all the nations of the earth joyfully sing because God’s justice is supreme!"

Psalm 67

Blessing, Grace, Love, Praise

A Recipe for Contentment

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness and praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 112:1-9, reflecting on the challenge of matching the theory of the psalm to practice and the subsequent contentment.

Psalm 112:1-9

Blessing, Contentment, Faithfulness, Happiness

In Every Generation

Joan Stott | Re-Worship

A call to worship litany based on Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17. "In every generation, the people of God have been blessed to find their home and resting place in God!"

Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17

Blessing, Worship, Praise, Creation

God Of Many Names

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35, reflecting on how our God of yesterday, today, and tomorrow can be described in so many ways.

Joy, Thankfulness, God's Love, Delighting In God

Being Chosen—Honor or Disaster?

Joan Stott | The Timeless Psalms

Joan Stott offers a call to worship, prayers of thankfulness and praise, and a personal meditation on Psalm 105, reflecting on being chosen, why God "claims" people, and God's guidance and blessing through it all.

Psalm 105:1-6, 23-26, 45