Psalms of the Sons of Korah Some hymns are little more than setting the words of the psalm to fit a tune and adding a rhyme, The Lord's my shepherd and The king of love my shepherd is are both more or less direct translations of Psalm 23. There are lots of examples of this …
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Psalms of the Sons of Korah? There are a whole bunch of commentaries on Psalm 86 which look at the meaning of the psalms in isolation: This is not one of them, I am looking at how the psalms fit together, and also at the poetic structure and how that affects my understanding. This Psalm …
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A lot of music is dictated by the building it is played in, particularly church music. The resonance of the building creates a sound that is played there. You only have to hear the resonance of softly sung voices in a large cathedral, choral evensong in York Minster being a case in point, to realise …
Psalms of the Sons of Korah Can righteousness and peace actually kiss? Yes, because Ancient Hebrew philosophy is not like modern Western philosophy. In the book of Proverbs Wisdom is a lady, philosophical ideas are personified, wisdom, righteousness and peace are treated as people in order to understand them rather than the idealistic abstract quality …
Psalms of the Sons of Korah The previous psalms of the sons of Korah were in the second book of psalms, this is the first of four psalms in the third book, not because they were written later, but because the theme has moved on God being with us, around us. This is a love …
Continue reading One of the most sweet of the Psalms of Peace — Psalm 84
How to re-connect with regular members who have not come to services over the last 18 months. This is a difficult question with no answer. Over the last 18 months churches have been using different means of going online, but now that we are starting more and more to worship in buildings we have a …
Psalms of the Sons of Korah This is a song in two halves, and both halves say the same thing, the second half building on the first. The books of Psalms are roughly themed like this: Book 1: Psalms 1 - 41: God is beside us.Book 2: Psalms 42 - 72: God goes before usBook …
'Jesus said to [Mary], “Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’” John 20:17. Here's a couple of questions for you, can think of anywhere …
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Psalms of the Sons of Korah "The sons of Korah describe Jerusalem as the joy of all the earth,’ because the holy city regularly gave atonement to mass throngs of troubled people who came to the Temple looking for spiritual uplifting." Source The Jewish Weekly, 19th April 2018. Earth from space showing Africa and Asia.From …
Have you ever had the feeling that evreything you have been taught is wrong? This is one of them,I have been taught that the passage, "You are God's Temple," is aimed at individuals. How wrong is that? An architectural model of how the Jerusalem Temple built by Solomon could have looked.Picture from Wikimedia Commons 16 Do …
Continue reading You are God’s temple: Who does God say I am – Part 4
