Rev. Tom Hathaway - September 13, 2026
Buried Joy
The Book of Psalms doesn't shy away from anger, grief, or doubt. It sits in all of it, unresolved, song after song. And then it ends on joy. Not because the hard stuff finally got fixed, but because joy was never waiting on the other side of it. This sermon on Psalm 150, the last psalm in the book, uses a Norwegian explorer, a bag of Cheez Doodles, and a single Hebrew command to ask what it actually takes to arrive at joy, and why it might be closer than you think.
Scripture References: Psalms 150:1-16
From Series: "Summer in the Psalms"
The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, and they don't pretend. Across 150 of them, the full range of human experience gets handed to God, not just the polished feelings we bring to church but the raw ones we usually leave at the door. This summer we'll take four different kinds of psalm and learn how each one prays: the psalm that praises, the psalm that trusts, the psalm that gives thanks, and, yes, the psalm that rages. Four weeks on the songs that teach us we can bring God everything, even the parts we're not proud of.
