All People That on Earth Do Dwell

Psalm 100

All People That on Earth Do Dwell

If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 100. We've been working our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms, and for the last several weeks we've been in Psalms 95-99, and now to Psalm 100–all of which treat the subject of worship, and Psalm 100 brings us to the summit of that discussion. As I mentioned before the service, this is the Psalm on which is based the very famous paraphrase of Isaac Watts’ Before Jehovah's Awesome Throne. It's also the Psalm on which the Scottish Metrical Psalter's All People That On Earth Do Dwell is sung. I imagine that that Psalm has been sung in this congregation ever since 1837. It's beloved by Presbyterians worldwide; and not only by Presbyterians, our favorite Baptist preacher, C. H. Spurgeon,…

The Reason for Christian Stewardship

Psalm 100:3The Reasons of Christian StewardshipStewardship 2004 If you have your Bibles, I'd invite you to turn with me to Psalm 100. You’ll want to be ready to follow with me through a number of passages today. Our commitment Sunday is on the first Sunday of November. That's when we traditionally make our commitments for the support of the church's work and worship for the year to come, and usually around that time we do some teaching on that subject. It's an important opportunity here at First Presbyterian Church. We really don't talk that much about money from the pulpit, but it does, this time of the year, give us the opportunity to address important foundational issues about stewardship. I want to emphasize a few things that the Deacon Stewardship Committee has…

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Psalm 100

All People That on Earth Do Dwell

The Reason for Christian Stewardship