What if Worship Started with Wonder? | Psalm 8 | Chapel Hill Church Gig Harbor

In this opening message of our new series David’s Playlist, Pastor Ellis invites us into the songs that shaped King David through every season of life. Long before David was a king, he was an overlooked shepherd spending nights under the stars—learning awe, humility, and worship in obscurity. And in Psalm 8, we see the kind of worship that rises when we’re reminded how vast God is… and how personal his care is.

In this sermon, you’ll discover:

Why the Psalms are God’s “soundtrack” for the full range of human emotion
How David’s worship was formed in the quiet places—before the spotlight
The two stunning “but yet” truths at the heart of Psalm 8:
We are small… but yet God cares for us
We are small… but yet God crowns us with dignity and purpose
How wonder leads us to worship—not by pretending we’re big, but by remembering God is

This message ends with an invitation to communion—where wonder becomes personal, as we remember the God who set the stars in place also came close to us in Jesus.