Church Year: Pentecost 10 / VBS Review:
Date: July 28, 2024
Theme: My Soul Longs For The Courts Of The LORD
– Psalm 84
– Pastor: John Hein
Bulletin: Bulletin
Liturgy: WS, p. 12 ff.
Hymns:
TLH 2 : To Thy Temple I Repair
TLH 17 : Oh Worship the King
WS 744 : How Great Thou Art
LSB 861 : Christ Be My Leader
Scripture Readings:
Colossians 3:12-17 John 4:5-14,19-26Theme: My Soul Longs For The Courts Of The LORD
Psalm 84 (Listen)
My Soul Longs for the Courts of the Lord
To the choirmaster: according to The Gittith. A Psalm of the Sons of Korah.
84:1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD of hosts!
2 My soul longs, yes, faints
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and flesh sing for joy
to the living God.
3 Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may lay her young,
at your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my King and my God.
4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house,
ever singing your praise! Selah
5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
in whose heart are the highways to Zion.
6 As they go through the Valley of Baca
they make it a place of springs;
the early rain also covers it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength;
each one appears before God in Zion.
8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer;
give ear, O God of Jacob! Selah
9 Behold our shield, O God;
look on the face of your anointed!
10 For a day in your courts is better
than a thousand elsewhere.
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
12 O LORD of hosts,
blessed is the one who trusts in you!
(ESV)