29 June 2025
The sermon opens a summer series on the Psalms of Ascents by describing them as songs for people on the road—believers living in the tension between God’s kingdom already begun in Christ and the world not yet made whole. Focusing on Psalm 120, it says the life of faith often starts with distress, not triumph. The psalmist feels out of place among people marked by deceit and conflict, and that dissonance mirrors the experience of many Christians who long for truth and peace but live amid hostility, including within their own hearts and communities.
The main call is to bring that pain to God rather than retaliate, escape, or harden. Because God has answered before and has fully acted in Jesus, believers can entrust themselves to him, repent of their own sinful speech, and leave justice in his hands. The sermon points to Christ as the one who endured slander without reviling in return, and it encourages listeners to keep walking the pilgrimage of faith with hope, trusting that God will one day set all things right.
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