Fixing our eyes on glory and fire

Phil Wickham’s song ‘The Ascension’ looks at our journey towards God: ‘Let us start the ascension Let’s begin the climb Up this holy mountain Where Your glory shines Further up, further in Just to be with You again.’ (‘The Ascension,’ Phil...

Blessing

Ps 134 ends with a prayer: ‘may the Lord bless you from Zion, He who is the Maker of heaven and earth.’ (Ps 134:3) The phrase ‘Maker of heaven and earth’ occurs 6 times in the Old Testament, twice more in these psalms of ascent (Ps 121:2, Ps 124:8) It’s a reminder of...

Praise the Lord

Praise will always be our response when we see God. He’ll always be more than enough. His blessings will always enrich us. He is the God who stoops down to wash our dusty feet (John 13:1-17) and as we see how much He blesses us, we realise that He will never...

Journey’s End

This morning we reached the end of our ‘Songs of Ascent’ series, a series looking at Psalms 120-134. Ps 134 is only a short psalm of 3 verses, but it’s a psalm of praise and blessing. Every year, Jews would travel to Jerusalem to worship God for the three main...