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Bob Kauflin (lead worshiper at Covenant Life Church) has posted notes on what looks like it was an awesome session from the WorshipGod ‘08 Conference. He’s also got a link to download the mp3 of the sermon.
Check it out: David Powlison on the Imprecatory Psalms
(Isn’t it interesting how much Powlison looks like he’s imprecating someone? [...]
A few years back I was struck by the realization that the way I read the Bible was being handicapped by the way the pages were laid out. Here are just a few examples.
The pages are laid out in columns. What other book is laid out like that? When I read the Bible, I was [...]
In a previous post I suggested a four-level approach to interpreting some of the Psalms along the lines of redemptive-history. Here I hope to model that in an abbreviated form, using Psalm 16.
1. Read the Psalm as David sings.
David cries to God as king of God’s people, in dependence on him alone. As leader [...]
I thought that this morning I could offer another method I enjoy using while meditating on the Psalms. I don’t really have a name for it, but it takes a sort of Redemptive-Historical approach. Using this method I’ll read through the Psalm on four levels–which usually means reading through the Psalm at least a few [...]
In keeping with our current theme, I wanted to post something on interpreting the Psalms today. That being said, I am scrambling to get up to the cottage, so I didn’t have time to write something new and thoughtful. But I came across this in my journal from a while ago, and it ‘just happened’ [...]
Here are just a few things that I find helpful on a very basic level with regard to reading the Psalms as a Christan.
Read the Psalms regularly. One of the reasons the Psalms can be so little help to some Christians in their time of need is simply this: We’re not familiar with them. They’re [...]
It seems that the Psalms are the centre of much attention in evangelicalism in North America these days. The Psalms is one of my favourite books, so this is exciting to me.
It has saddened me over the years to see how many Christians are somewhat unable to understand, identify with, and apply the Psalms to [...]
It seems to me to be an incredible blessing to live with the technology of the 21st century at our disposal. When the Bible was first written it was given to the people of God to be read aloud in their public worship services. Over the years, however, that practice was lost in our modern, [...]
John MacArthur’s comments on all good Calvinists being pre-millennial has got me thinking again. But I definitely don’t agree.
Historic Dispensationalism stated outright that God’s plan to save the Gentiles now–in an age of grace–is an aside from God’s plans to save Israel and establish them as God’s people. Contemporary Dispensationalism, of course, would never use [...]
I love Scripture because it boldly declares. It doesn’t go around tip-toeing and trying to qualify everything. There are profound tensions in Scripture, but rather than attempting to soften them, or thinking that we need to explain them away, I think we need to embrace them and let them speak to us.
For most modern readers, [...]
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately for several of my courses about textual criticism of the New Testament Greek texts. It’s been really interesting, to say the least, and I’ve been learning lots.
One of the greatest things I learned was this. In the first century AD the copying of manuscripts was a highly [...]
Today I thought I’d do a google search for a chart giving a chronological listing of the New Testament books, according to the date authored. Maybe I’m just a really bad googler or something, but I had a hard time finding something that was (a) easy to read, and, (b) worth looking at.
While there is [...]
Tertullian lived ca.150-ca.225 AD. He was born in Carthage, which is in North Africa (so he was probably a little darker than the picture would suggest). He was a man brilliantly gifted by God for writing. He wrote extensively on things like apologetics and ethics and often wrote polemically against the heretics of his day [...]
This morning I was blessed in my reading of 1 Timothy. I was quite refreshed to read Paul’s words to Timothy:
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith.
When Scripture records for us Paul’s letter to this young pastor (the first generation of [...]
I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but if you are, then you probably wonder from time to time why you have to learn something so many times before it finally sinks in. This morning, as I was reading through Acts, I couldn’t help but be struck with the reality of my need to [...]
I’ve got a Greek exam tomorrow, and the passage I’m studying tonight is Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. I couldn’t help but stop to ponder a few things when I got to these verses:
For truly I say to all of you, until heaven and earth pass away, one iota or one dot will not pass [...]
After my last post (with regard to the miraculous gifts) evanmay made the comment, ‘We should be open to and seek the miraculous, but we should not neglect to thank the Spirit for the ways he gifts his church that seem ordinary.’ The first part of the sentence is what caught my attention, because it [...]
Every child knows the story from Sunday School. From the time we’re little we picture it… Moses goes up the mountain to speak with God. God is there, in a cloud, fire, and lightning and the people are afraid. But God speaks with Moses. Amazing!
But then the unthinkable happens: Moses dares to ask for even [...]
I was talking with my good friend Jim the other day after church and he said something quite humorous and very insightful. Since he didn’t post it, I thought I would steal that thought from him and use it on my blog.
In our conversation we were discussing a bizarre post I read on another blog. [...]
Tim Challies has been live-blogging the T4G Conference. There have been many interesting posts (from many interesting messages), but this one from John MacArthur caught my eye. John, in his message, was discussing 40 years of gospel ministry at his church. He identifies several benefits from expository preaching in the church:
Having discussed the benefit of [...]
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