Missionaries in Greenland describe prison ministry and translating hymnals for a pioneer mission field.
Make a joyful noise. The service opens with missionary work in Greenland: gratitude for prayer, support, Danish study, and labor beside veteran missionaries. Then Psalm 100 takes over. The preacher reads its five verses and keeps returning to a plain question: does life sound like praise, or does it sound like murmuring? Noise can be ugly. A piano can be pounded into racket or played into something beautiful, and the sermon uses that picture to talk about the heart. Psalm 100 gives the shape of worship. Praise means adoration, thanksgiving, gladness, and joy. It is not just a song service or a polite church habit. God is the reason. He made his people, claims them, and cares for them as the sheep of his pasture. That should change the sound. The preacher pushes worship away from mood and circumstance and back toward who the Lord is. The application stays close to everyday speech. Entering his gates with thanksgiving means coming before God with praise already on the tongue and gratitude already being chosen. Complaining gets named directly. The sermon does not treat murmuring as harmless background noise, because Psalm 100 gives God's people a different way to speak. Mercy lasts. Truth endures to all generations. That gives the congregation a solid place for gladness, even when ordinary life is noisy. The close stays with the church in prayer, asking God to help his people remember who he is, remember that he is worthy, and answer him with praise.
