“Although the Psalms are replete with all the precepts which serve to frame our life to every part of holiness, piety, and righteousness, yet they will principally teach and train us to bear the cross. And the bearing of the cross is a genuine proof of our obedience, since by doing this, we renounce the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Book of Psalms’
March 20, 2009
“The great school of prayer” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“The Psalter is the great school of prayer.”
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together (New York: Harper & Row, 1954), 47.
March 20, 2009
“Someone else is praying” by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“A psalm that we cannot utter as a prayer, that makes us falter and horrifies us, is a hint to us that here Someone else is praying, not we; that the One who is here protesting his innocence, who is invoking God’s judgment, who has come to such infinite depths of suffering, is none other [...]
September 30, 2008
“This book of Psalms” by Jonathan Edwards
“This book of Psalms has such an exalted devotion, and such a spirit of evangelical grace everywhere breathed forth in it! Here are such exalted expressions of the gloriousness of God, and even of the excellency of Christ and His kingdom.
There is so much of the gospel doctrine, grace, and spirit, breaking out and shining [...]
July 23, 2008
“The folly of human conceits” by Carl Sagan
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you have ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every [...]
June 8, 2008
Lord’s Day Hymn – “Great David’s greater Son”
“Hail to the Lord’s Anointed”
By James Montgomery, 1821
Hail to the Lord’s anointed, great David’s greater Son!
Hail in the time appointed, His reign on earth begun!
He comes to break oppression, to set the captive free;
To take away transgression and rule in equity.
He comes in succor speedy to those who suffer wrong;
To help the poor and needy, [...]
January 18, 2008
“We sing with Him as a singing Savior” by Michael Glodo
“We sing to the God-man Jesus as our sufficient Savior. We sing about his redeeming work as our servant Savior. But Hebrews 2 doesn’t stop there. It also tells us with whom we sing in worship. Hebrews 2:12 tells us that Jesus is singing in the midst of the assembly, the gathered people of God. [...]
August 13, 2007
“What Can Miserable Christians Sing?” by Carl R. Trueman
“Having experienced — and generally appreciated — worship across the whole evangelical spectrum, from Charismatic to Reformed — I am myself less concerned here with the form of worship than I am with its content. Thus, I would like to make just one observation: the psalms, the Bible’s own hymnbook, have almost entirely dropped from [...]
