Slides from sermon at Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Glasgow.

1. What are
your
influences?

3. Flickr:pitschuni

4. Psalm 1
The Path of Life
in the Psalms

6. Good Bad

7. Righteous Wicked

8. Good Bad

9. The
Bad
Choice
2
choices
The
Good
Choice

10. The
Bad
Choice

11. The
Bad
Choice
…like a wave of the sea, blown
and tossed by the wind.
James 1:6

12. But didn’t Jesus
The
eat with “tax
Bad
Choice collectors and
sinners”?

13. “but his delight is in
the law of the LORD,
and on his law he
meditates day and night.”
The
Good
Choice

15. meditate [ˈmɛdɪˈteɪt]
vb
1. (intr; foll by on or upon) to think about something
deeply
2. (intr) to reflect deeply on spiritual matters, esp as a
religious act
3. (tr) to plan, consider, or think of doing (something)
Collins English Dictionary
The
Good
Choice

16. The
Good
Choice

17. Flickr: Ben Grogan

18. “In all that he does,
he prospers.”
Really?
The
Good
Choice

19. Flickr:canihazit

20. “The point of the simile is not
that the righteous will not
suffer, but rather that the
righteous will always have in
God a reliable resource to
face and endure
The life’s worst.”
Good
Choice J Clinton McCann

21. What would my life
look like if I tried to
live out this psalm?
The
Good
Choice

22. 1. I would grapple
with the Bible, trying
to understand it.

23. 2. I won’t be afraid
to ask questions.

24. 3. I will be part of an
inquiring
community.

25. 4. I will look
outwards.

26. The Jesus ate with
Good “tax collectors
Choice and sinners”.

27. The
Good
Choice