This past week many of us began our daily Bible reading plan for 2022. As I said last week, one thing we will attempt to do together this year is study something from the daily reading once a month. So, this morning we want to look at Psalm 19, which was the first psalm we … Continue reading Declaring the Glory of God
Psalms
Teach Us to Praise
The book of Psalms ends with this phrase, "Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!" Psalm 150:6. While a large portion of the psalms (as we have studied) deal with lament, anger, and instruction, there are still many that are simply written to praise God. If you look at the last … Continue reading Teach Us to Praise
Leave Room for Wrath
Making Sense of the Imprecatory Psalms When we say that the psalms encompass every human emotion, we mean every human emotion. This includes not only grief and lament but also hatred and anger. There is a subtype of psalms known as the imprecatory psalms that deal with these very emotions. And, as Tremper Longman aptly … Continue reading Leave Room for Wrath
Impart To Us Wisdom
We have looked at the Psalms as a whole and shown how they are valuable for us as Christians in our devotions and worship. Just as Jesus gave the disciples a model prayer so that they could learn to pray as they ought to, God has also given us the book of Psalms to learn … Continue reading Impart To Us Wisdom
Teach Us to Lament
A sobering fact that we all must come to terms with is that all of us will experience deep emotional pain in this life. Be it from the loss of a loved one, betrayal, unjustly attacked, a severe medical diagnosis. There are infinite reasons in a world marred by sin why such pain would come … Continue reading Teach Us to Lament
Book of Praises
The book of Psalms (called the book of praises in the Hebrew Bible) is a collection of poetry that encompasses the whole range of human experience and teaches us how to commune with God through every phase of life. The Psalms instruct us in showing us how to praise God whether we are in the … Continue reading Book of Praises
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