Sierra View Presbyterian Church

It has been said that in an age of shallow spirituality what is needed most is for God’s people to gain a renewed vision of our Lord’s majesty and beauty, justice and mercy, sovereignty and love. The Psalms, the bible’s “Prayer Book,” provides just such a vision. Of the Psalms John Calvin once remarked, “There is no other book in which we are more perfectly taught the right manner of praising God, or in which we are more powerfully stirred up to the performance of this religious exercise.” In the Psalms we see a picture of true, biblical worship, including praise, adoration, confession and contrition. Many of the Psalms point directly to Jesus Christ, and they have historically been central in discerning the causes of spiritual declension. The Psalms are to our worship what brass in to an orchestra: without them nothing is complete. For these and other reasons there is no portion of the Scriptures that is quoted more often in the New Testament than the Psalms.

On Sunday mornings we are preaching through a particular subset of the Psalms called “The Messianic Psalms.” That term can rightly be used in at least two different ways. In a sense all the Psalms are Messianic because they, like all Scripture, point to Jesus Christ. (Luke 24:27). However, the term “Messianic Psalms” can also refer to a more narrowly defined set of the Psalms, namely, those which find their greater and direct fulfillment in the person or work of Jesus Christ, especially as quoted somewhere in the New Testament. We warmly invite you come and worship as we explore how these Psalms uniquely take us to Jesus and the blessing of God that attends fellowship with Him.