{"id":2262,"date":"2011-09-19T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2011-09-19T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T23:21:10","slug":"sermon-follow-up-if-you-wanna-be-happy-for-the-rest-of-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/sermon-follow-up-if-you-wanna-be-happy-for-the-rest-of-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Sermon Follow-up: “If You Wanna Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Sunday’s sermon, “If You Wanna Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life…<\/a>,” Ryan preached from Psalm 1<\/a> about the blessed life. The word, “blessing,” may create any number of impressions in our mind based on how we’ve heard the word used. But “blessing,” is roughly equivalent to what we might mean by “happy.” Psalm 1<\/a>, Ryan said, “tells us how to be happy no matter who you married,\u00c2\u00a0no matter where you live,\u00c2\u00a0or how much you make, or what you do for work, or\u00c2\u00a0whether you have the family you envisioned.\u00c2\u00a0It tells us the pathway to true happiness even amidst hardships and difficulties.”<\/p>\n

As we’ve mentioned over the past few weeks, our series through the Psalms\u00c2\u00a0coordinates\u00c2\u00a0with the release of a new DSC album, Psalterium<\/a>, <\/em>at our next Cause for Praise<\/a> concert,\u00c2\u00a0Friday, October 21. Psalterium<\/a><\/em> is a 5 track album of various Psalms set to song. Here are the lyrics to Psalm 1<\/em>, a song we’ve been singing for several weeks now, based on the first Psalm and composed by Matt Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Blessed is the man
\nwho walks not in the counsel of the wicked,
\nnor stands in the way
\nof sinners or of scoffers who are seated,
\nbut finds his delight
\nin meditation day and night
\non the law of the Lord.<\/p>\n

He is like a tree
\nplanted by the streams of living water;
\nIn season it will be
\nbearing fruit and its leaves do not wither;
\nIn all that he does
\nhe will prosper as he goes,
\nfor the Lord knows his way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Many if not all of the Psalms were originally set to music as a means of helping God’s people internalize God’s Word. Of course, in translation we’ve lost the original meter and any rhyming patterns. But songs like this help deliver the Psalms to our hearts and heads in a way similar to how they were originally received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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