“Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name... forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things.”
A Memorial Day Sunday message urging disciples to remember and worship God in every season of life. Using Ecclesiastes, Deuteronomy, Luke, and Psalm 103, the speaker contrasts wilderness seasons that draw us to God with seasons of prosperity that can produce spiritual amnesia. Practical application centers on gratitude, confessing sin, faithful dependence in hardship, generosity for missions, and pursuing God rather than merely his benefits. A personal testimony about mental-health struggles, temptation, repentance, and baptism illustrates the sermon’s call to rely on the cross as the true 'way out.'
“Psalm 103: 'Bless the Lord, O my soul... forget not all his benefits: he forgiveth our iniquities, he healeth our diseases, he redeemeth my life from destruction... he satisfieth my mouth with good things; he renews my youth like an eagle.'”
Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. preaches 'Life Part II,' using the board game Life and the sending of the 70 (Luke 10) to encourage believers that life with Jesus is better: though sent into difficult places like 'lambs among wolves,' followers receive mysterious durability, can manage uncertainty because God is near, and are preserved to testify to God's power and grace.
