God of the Thunderstorm

Ghost riders in the sky. Yippie-yi-yay!

Rolling thunderstorm (Cumulonimbus arcus) photographed in Enschede, The Netherlands. Photo by John Kerstholt, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

This is based on a sermon I preached in 2007. I polished and updated it for a lay speaking assignment today, but it turned out I was not needed after all, so it went unpreached. I decided I would share it here anyway.

Psalm 29 (CEB)

A psalm of David.
You, divine beings! Give to the Lord —
give to the…