Prayer feels like talking to the ceiling, and worship you used to love feels like going through the motions. This sermon outline walks through Psalms 42 and 43, one song written by a worship leader in a dry season. It explores spiritual thirst as design rather than failure, the practice of talking back to your own soul instead of just listening to it, what to do when “deep calls to deep,” and the prayer for light and truth that leads not to an explanation but back to God Himself.
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We’ve all seen the painting: green hill, clean white sheep, a shepherd with the light just right. But David wasn’t painting. He’d pulled a lamb out of a lion’s mouth. This sermon outline walks through Psalm 23 as a shepherd’s job description, from the four things a sheep needs before it will lie down, to the cast sheep that can’t right itself, to the valley where David stops talking about God and starts talking to Him, to a table set while the enemy is still in the room. It closes with the Good Shepherd who became the Lamb.
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By the rivers of Babylon, God’s people hung up their harps and stopped singing. This sermon outline, part of the Summer in the Psalms series, walks through Psalm 137 and the Babylonian exile, asking how to worship in a place you never wanted to end up, especially when the wreckage has your own fingerprints on it. It traces God’s glory leaving Jerusalem in Ezekiel and arriving in Babylon first, Jesus’ answer to the woman at the well, and Paul and Silas singing at midnight, showing that honest lament is itself a song God keeps.
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Asaph led worship every week, and privately his faith was slipping. What nearly took him out wasn’t tragedy but envy: watching people who didn’t care about God at all seem to win. This sermon outline walks through Psalm 73, showing how envy magnifies, edits reality, and turns inward, and how one word, “until,” changes everything when Asaph steps into the sanctuary. It closes with two practical questions: how to live in a broken world without growing cynical, and how to love broken people without being crushed.
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The Wilderness 1 Samuel 16:13 → 1 Samuel 27:1 → 1 Samuel 30:6 Samuel poured oil on David’s head as a teenager. David didn’t sit on the throne until he…
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In 1 Samuel 24, David is a hunted man hiding in a cave. Hunted man: Saul takes 3,000 chosen soldiers into the wilderness of En-gedi to run David down. The…
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Psalm 2:1,2 “Why are the nations (Gentiles) in an uproar (rage) , and the peoples devising a vain (futile) thing? The kings of the earth take their stand, and the…
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1 Samuel 21:10–15 David is running from Saul, he’s so desperate he flees to Gath — Goliath’s hometown — carrying Goliath’s own sword. The servants of King Achish recognize him…
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One hundred years ago today — President Calvin Coolidge stood in Philadelphia on the 150th birthday of the Declaration of Independence, Coolage passionately argues that the Declaration of Independence was…
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Absalom — handsome, ambitious, David’s own son — steals the hearts of Israel and launches a coup. David runs. He crosses the Kidron Valley, climbs the Mount of Olives weeping, barefoot, head covered (2 Sam…
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