The Pastor’s Role in the Praising Church
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 20 March 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How can we sing God’s praise when we don’t feel like it? Maybe we’ve had a difficult week, or we sing off-key, or we just don’t like the songs? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains how our hearts, like musical instruments, need to be “tuned” for worship.
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| 0:00.0 | How do we sing in church if we just don't feel like it? |
| 0:27.9 | Maybe it's been a difficult week, or you've had a rough morning, |
| 0:30.4 | or maybe you can't carry a tune, or you don't like the songs that have been chosen. |
| 0:35.5 | Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg explains how our hearts, |
| 0:40.0 | like musical instruments, need to be properly tuned for worship. |
| 0:50.1 | One of the reasons, I think, when we find ourselves in situations where we are being encouraged to sing, |
| 0:57.7 | and yet we find that somehow or another we are not entering fully into the song, |
| 1:03.3 | at least for me it is often because I am being asked to declare things about how I myself am feeling, when in actual fact, if I were to be honest |
| 1:14.9 | about how I am feeling, I'm not feeling at all like singing anything at all. And so my heart has |
| 1:22.8 | to be tuned by the truth of God's word. And so, for example, the words of the Psalmist that God does not |
| 1:30.1 | always chide, nor will he remember our sins forever. What a wonderful thing it is when you've come |
| 1:35.7 | on the Lord's Day morning and you're aware of the frailty and feebleness of your own heart, |
| 1:40.9 | and you're the pastor, and you have been a disappointment to yourself, and you've been |
| 1:45.7 | a jolly nuisance to your wife, and your children are not exactly feeling particularly predisposed |
| 1:53.1 | towards you. The last thing in the world you want is to have to start this thing about how you're |
| 1:57.8 | feeling. But to remind yourself in the opening song, Father |
| 2:01.7 | like, he tends and spares us. Well, our feeble frame he knows. In his hands, he gently bears us and |
| 2:10.9 | rescues us from all our foes. Now, go ahead and praise him. Praise him widely as his mercy flows. Now, obviously, when we talk about |
| 2:21.2 | congregational praise, let's just make sure we understand that the whole of life is worship, right? |
| 2:28.6 | That the way that we go to work, the way in which we engage in our work, the way in which we play |
| 2:33.8 | sport, how we eat and drink, we may do so, the way in which we engage in our work, the way in which we play sport, |
| 2:34.7 | how we eat and drink, we may do so to the glory of God. So it is out of, we're not suggesting |
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