Sermon
Psalm 150
Cornerstone Church of Ames
Speaker: Jacob Boyd
June 28, 2026 · 23 min
Summary
Psalm 150 reveals that God commands praise not because he needs it, but because believers need it. Praise produces hope and joy while protecting hearts from hardening, functioning as a spiritual discipline and means of grace that transforms believers when practiced with devotion rather than emotion.
Highlights
Praise is not a detour. It's not a scenic route. It's a shortcut. It's a means of grace that God wants to use, a shortcut to the life that we all want, to the fruit that we all want in our hearts.
Praise is driven by devotion, not emotion. It's gotta be driven by your devotion to who God is and what he has done, not by what you feel in any given moment.
Our hearts get out of tune easily, and we need to tune them, get them back into tune by praising God.