First Church Charlotte

August 30, 2020 | Pastor Nathan Elms “Life as a journey and not a destination” is an essential truth for most of us… The very same phrase that Aerosmith used in a song published in 1993 was used in 1920 by Methodist pastor and theologian, Lynn H. Hough in a Sunday school lesson outline on the New Testament letter of 1 Peter: “life is a journey and not a destination.” However, we may want to hear the rest of the quote to make sense of it: Life is a journey and not a destination; that the heart must be set upon those matters of character which are eternal and not upon those matters of sensation which pass away. (Steven Tyler left that part out) The Psalms of Ascent consist of 15 psalms, from 120 through 134. Four of these songs are attributed to King David (122, 124, 131, 133) and one to Solomon (127), while the remaining ten are anonymous. These psalms were sung and prayed by pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem. They were traveling to the temple in celebration of the three main festivals of the Hebrew peop