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Today's Music

Lord You're Mighty - J.J Hairston

Holy Forever - CeCe Winans

How Great Is Our God - Chris Tomlin

Establish The Works Of Our Hands - The Porter's Gate

You Spirit - Tasha Cobbs Leonard

All Sufficient Merit - The Worship Initiative

Today's Liturgy

Call to Worship

Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne, O Lord.
Faithful love and truth go before you.
We gather with God’s people throughout the world and throughout the ages.
We join with God’s people from other neighborhoods and other nations.
We gather across borders and political divisions.
Happy are the people who know the joyful shout of God’s victory.
Lord, we walk in the light that shines from your face.

We rejoice in your name all day long.
We are exalted by your righteousness.
For you are our magnificent strength.

—from Psalm 89

Confession

Father God,
We confess our limits, our brokenness, and our sin.

We humbly acknowledge that without your Holy Spirit we often assume the worst about others.
We are tempted to look at the lives of our brothers and sisters with eyes of envy and bitterness.
We lack compassion and become distant and jaded.

Holy Spirit, we ask you to soften our hearts toward one another.
May we fully receive the love and compassion You offer us,
and may we pour out the healing balm of this love to one another
and beyond these walls to our neighborhoods and to the nations.
Amen.

Assurance

Let us draw near to God in full assurance of faith,
because our hearts have been sprinkled clean
and our bodies washed in pure water.
Let us hold on to the confession of our hope without wavering,
since God, who promised, is faithful.

Let us think of the needs of one another,
provoking love and good works in each other.
By the power of the Spirit,
let us encourage one another all the more as we labor together for the sake of the kingdom.

- From Every Moment Holy Volume I; Adapted from Hebrews 10:22-25

The Song of the Oppressed

Ronnie Martin

1 Since my youth they have often attacked me—let Israel say—

2 since my youth they have often attacked me, but they have not prevailed against me.

3 Plowmen plowed over my back; they made their furrows long.

4 The Lord is righteous; he has cut the ropes of the wicked.

5 Let all who hate Zion be driven back in disgrace.

6 Let them be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it grows up

7 and can’t even fill the hands of the reaper or the arms of the one who binds sheaves.

8 Then none who pass by will say, “May the Lord’s blessing be on you. We bless you in the name of the Lord.”

–Psalm 129

Big Idea: Our help is in the Lord—yesterday, today, and always.

1. Imagine If the Lord Had Not Helped

Romans 8:31-32: What, then, are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He did not even spare his own Son but gave him up for us all. How will he not also with him grant us everything?
The psalmist recalls Israel’s past affliction and repeats, “If the Lord had not been on our side,” highlighting both trauma and relief.
God alone knew their enemies, stood against their enemies, and rescued His people from destruction.
Believers also have stories where God’s help preserved them—sometimes in ways they didn’t expect—grounded ultimately in Christ (Rom 8:31–32).

2. Invite the Lord to Be Your Helper

We often feel the pain of times when God seemed silent—fear, grief, loss, injury, or damaged reputation remain real wounds.
As Eugene Peterson notes, no life is “safe,” but hope remains because nothing can separate us from Christ’s love. An unsafe life becomes secure in God’s sovereign care.
Jesus fully sympathizes with our weaknesses (Heb 4:15–16), inviting us to approach the throne of grace boldly to receive mercy and help.
Hebrews 4:15-16: For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way as we are, yet without sin. Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in time of need.

3. Application

Spend some time recounting all the ways God has been your help in the past and the present.
But the hope is that it will help you see that this Psalm is the song of the humble heart.