August 3rd, 2025

Summer PSalms Series

“Crazy Good” - Psalm 34

Tyler Daniels, Pastor and Lead Elder

This Week @ Sojourn:

  • THANK YOU to everyone who served at Small Town Summer and at Game Day! Your hard work, patience, and dedication helped us love our neighbors and point them to Jesus. We are grateful for each and every one of you!

  • Back-to-School Bash: Youth (ages 11 and up) are invited for a day of backyard fun and pond play at the Despers’ home on Saturday, August 9th, beginning at 11am. Send an email to Rhonda Turpin to RSVP!

  • Elder Ordination: Next Sunday, August 10th, we will formally ordain Kerry Spencer as an elder. Plan to be in worship that day to be a witness and an encouragement.

  • If you are a GUEST with us today, we are glad you are here! Please click the WORSHIP CONNECTION link below, and let us know how we can pray for or serve you. Thank you!

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Welcome Song:  Come Thou Fount (Instrumental)

Blessed Assurance

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine.

Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!

Heir of salvation, purchase of God,

Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

This is my story, this is my song,

Praising my Savior all the day long.

This is my story, this is my song,

Praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, perfect delight,

Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;

Angels descending, bring from above

Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,

I in my Savior am happy and blest;

Watching and waiting, looking above,

Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

Goodness of God

I love You, Lord

For Your mercy never fails me

All my days, I've been held in Your hands

From the moment that I wake up

Until I lay my head

Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God

'Cause all my life You have been faithful

And all my life You have been so, so good

With every breath that I am able

Oh, I will sing of the goodness of God

I love Your voice

You have led me through the fire

In darkest night

You are close like no other

I've known You as a Father

I've known You as a Friend

And I have lived in the goodness of God

Your goodness is running after, it's running after me

Your goodness is running after, it's running after me

With my life laid down, I surrendered now

I give You everything

Your goodness is running after, it's running after me

O Praise the Name (Anastasis)

I cast my mind to Calvary

Where Jesus bled and died for me.

I see His wounds, His hands, His feet.

My Savior on that cursed tree

His body bound and drenched in tears

They laid Him down in Joseph's tomb.

The entrance sealed by heavy stone

Messiah still and all alone

O praise the name of the Lord our God

O praise His name forever more

For endless days we will sing Your praise

Oh Lord, oh Lord our God

Then on the third at break of dawn,

The Son of heaven rose again.

O trampled death where is your sting?

The angels roar for Christ the King

He shall return in robes of white,

The blazing Son shall pierce the night.

And I will rise among the saints,

My gaze transfixed on Jesus' face

Sermon Texts

“Concerning David, when he pretended to be insane in the presence of Abimelech, who drove him out, and he departed.

1 I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise will always be on my lips.
2 I will boast in the LORD;
the humble will hear and be glad.
3 Proclaim the LORD’s greatness with me;
let us exalt his name together.

4 I sought the LORD, and he answered me
and rescued me from all my fears.
5 Those who look to him are radiant with joy;
their faces will never be ashamed.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him
and saved him from all his troubles.
7 The angel of the LORD encamps
around those who fear him, and rescues them.

8 Taste and see that the LORD is good.
How happy is the person who takes refuge in him!
9 You who are his holy ones, fear the LORD,
for those who fear him lack nothing.
10 Young lions lack food and go hungry,
but those who seek the LORD
will not lack any good thing.

11 Come, children, listen to me;
I will teach you the fear of the LORD.
12 Who is someone who desires life,
loving a long life to enjoy what is good?
13 Keep your tongue from evil
and your lips from deceitful speech.
14 Turn away from evil and do what is good;
seek peace and pursue it.

15 The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry for help.
16 The face of the LORD is set
against those who do what is evil,
to remove all memory of them from the earth.
17 The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears,
and rescues them from all their troubles.
18 The LORD is near the brokenhearted;
he saves those crushed in spirit.

19 One who is righteous has many adversities,
but the LORD rescues him from them all.
20 He protects all his bones;
not one of them is broken.
21 Evil brings death to the wicked,
and those who hate the righteous will be punished.
22 The LORD redeems the life of his servants,
and all who take refuge in him will not be punished. ”
— Psalm 34

Next Steps:

Discussion Questions:

  1. How can someone “taste and see that the LORD is good” (v. 8)? How has your experience of God’s goodness shaped your testimony? How would you invite someone else to know Him this way?

  2. What things belong on a “good life” to-do list? How does Ps. 34:11-14 fill out the list? Which of these things should be added to your own life’s list?

  3. How does the historical context for this Psalm help us understand David’s prayer? (See 1 Sam. 21:10-15.) When have the in-over-your-head circumstances of your life driven you to pray—and to worship? What about your faith might look crazy to the wider world?

Doxology

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow;

Praise Him, all creatures here below;

Praise Him above, ye heav'nly host;

Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

Amen.

Lord, I Need You

Lord, I come, I confess

Bowing here I find my rest

Without You I fall apart

You're the One that guides my heart

Lord, I need You, oh, I need You

Every hour I need You

My one defense, my righteousness

Oh God, how I need You

Where sin runs deep Your grace is more

Where grace is found is where You are

Where You are, Lord, I am free

Holiness is Christ in me

So teach my song to rise to You

When temptation comes my way

When I cannot stand I'll fall on You

Jesus, You're my hope and stay