Isaac Watts reflects on the strange and sublime beauty of the gathering of saints:

How sweet and awesome is the place with Christ within the doors, while everlasting love displays the choicest of her stores.
How sweet, that is, and “filling-with-awe” is that place where Christ has gathered together with his redeemed. The sweetness and awe [...]

Paul’s revolutionary message was a simple and, in the day, virtually unnoticed event, registering as barely a blip on the screen of epoch-making events: the death and resurrection of Jesus by which our own victory over death has been secured!

Behold! I tell you a mystery: we shall not all sleep, but we [...]

Since, by our place in Christ by the abounding grace and mercy of God our Father, we have been delivered from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of his Son’s marvelous light, being carried with him, as it were, through our baptism into him, through death and into the glorious light of his resurrection, [...]

How has the reality of the resurrection been rippling through your world and your circumstances in the last week. Take a moment to identify it.
Then understand the Psalmist’s call to worship as he, too, has been reflecting on the life-giving, life-sustaining faithfulness of our God’s glory and grace:

Clap your hands, all peoples! Shout [...]

The Psalmist teaches us to sing:
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way,
though the mountains be moved into the sea,
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble at its swelling.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the [...]

In his letter to the Romans, Paul carefully presents the truth of the gospel that Jesus of Nazareth was crucified, was buried, and rose again the third day and lives and reigns today. In contrast to the Greek and Roman instinct that such a message is absurd and folly in the extreme, Paul declares [...]

Like Paul who, many years later, opened his letter to the Ephesians with an uncontrolled explosion of praise, the Psalmist shouts out -

Shout for joy to God, all the earth; sing the glory of his name; give to him glorious praise! Say to God, ‘How awesome are your deeds!’
The Psalmist’s exhileration at the [...]

Jesus of Nazareth has been raised from the dead! Everything that went into the tomb, came out by the powerful work of God’s grace! By the same grace, Jesus has ascended, received the crown and sat upon the throne at the right hand of God the Father, from where he reigns supreme over [...]

Ah, holy Jesus, how hast thou offended, that man to judge thee hath in hate pretended?
By foes derided, by thine own rejected, O most afflicted.
Who was the guilty who brought this upon thee?
Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee.
‘Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee: I crucified thee.
And so it is that [...]

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.”
So Paul begins in his letter to the Ephesians to declare the facts of the Lord’s work in Jesus which stretches the bounds of reason, even stretching beyond our wildest imaginations.
Swept [...]