{"id":3627,"date":"2012-07-24T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T22:24:51","slug":"a-bothand-kind-of-praise-mini-series-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/a-bothand-kind-of-praise-mini-series-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"A Both\/And Kind of Praise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Mini-Series Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Ryan’s series through the Psalms, Pour Out Your Heart to Him<\/a><\/em>, it was inevitable that he would weave in and out of the theme of praise. Even psalms of lament eventually turn to praise. The theme is everywhere because, as we’ve been saying, the LORD is great and greatly to be praised (Psalm 145:3).<\/p>\n

Because the Psalms have so much to teach us about praise, Ryan spent his last four sermons on the subject in a miniseries called, A Both\/And Kind of Praise<\/em>. Like the title suggests, praise in the Psalms reflects the breadth of our great God. So, on the one hand praise is to be heavy<\/em>, but on the other hand it should also be happy<\/em>. God can be praised with shouts<\/em>, but also with\u00c2\u00a0silence<\/em>. Praise is about giving to God, but it is also about getting from God.<\/p>\n

In Sunday’s sermon, “A Both\/And Kind of Praise: The Aim<\/a>,” Ryan quoted Tim Keller about the mingling of head<\/em> and heart<\/em> in our worship of God:<\/p>\n

In order for us to worship, our mind, emotions, and will have to be moved. They’re all organically\u00c2\u00a0connected. Merely learning a truth about God is intellectual education, not worship. For example, I can know\u00c2\u00a0intellectually that God is good but still be worried silly about something that’s coming up this week. If the\u00c2\u00a0morning’s sermon is on the sovereignty and goodness of God, I haven’t worshiped unless that truth descends\u00c2\u00a0from my mind and touches my emotions and my will.<\/p>\n

I worship, then, when I realize I’ve been trusting in my own abilities, not the sovereignty and goodness\u00c2\u00a0of God. When I pull my affections off the other things I’ve been trusting in\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich is why I’m anxious\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand put\u00c2\u00a0them on God, I will be touched emotionally. I may cry; I may not. It depends on what kind of personality I have.\u00c2\u00a0But the truth will affect my emotions.<\/div>\n
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My will is also affected when I decide to change the way I handle that threat next week. Worship is\u00c2\u00a0grasping a truth about God and then letting that truth strike you in the center of your being. It thrills you, comforts\u00c2\u00a0you. That’s when the truth has moved from left to right brain\u00e2\u20ac\u201dfrom mind to heart. On the spot, it will change the\u00c2\u00a0way you feel. The whole brain, the whole person, is affected.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u201cTim Keller, “Worship Worthy of the Name:\u00c2\u00a0Worship is Seeing what God is Worth\u00c2\u00a0and Giving Him What He’s Worth<\/a>,” in,\u00c2\u00a0Changing Lives through Preaching and Worship<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the course of Ryan’s four messages, he worked through twenty-two pairings. In case you missed one of the sermons, or if you wanted to work through them again, here are Ryan’s\u00c2\u00a0twenty-two\u00c2\u00a0pairings in his four-part miniseries, A Both\/And Kind of Praise<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Part 1: “The Basics<\/a>”<\/p>\n