Sermon Tone Analysis

Scripture

Pray.

Introduction

Today, appropriately, we will be looking to a Psalm of Lament.

On this all saints day we recognize those loved ones that have gone, those in our community and in our families.

Even as we celebrate their eternal life as saints we also again must acknowledge death.

Today is especially important because I think we have lost the spiritual discipline of lament.

Of voicing fears, doubts, failures, and suffering in healthy ways.

The psalms were a large source of individual and corporate lament in Temple worship of the Bible and times after.

is about acknowledging God’s faithfulness in the midst of trials.

It is one of my favorite psalms because it represents incredible issues and trials and challenging praise and worship from the psalmist.

Many have seen this to be David as he runs for his life from Saul and is hiding in a cave even.

His life is literally on the line.

Last week from we talked about the movement of faith that grows to allowing God’s presence to be primary even when enemies of difficulties abound.

Today we talk about the honesty in the dark valley and what it means to lament.

Why is lament important?

Well I think we have become the worst Christian radio station.

Carl Trueman is therefore right: “A diet of unremittingly jolly choruses and hymns inevitably creates an unrealistic horizon of expectation which sees the normative Christian life as one long triumphalist street party—a theologically incorrect and a pastorally disastrous scenario in a world of broken individuals.”1

1 Smith, R. S. (2017).