Psalms of David This psalm of David is a song in praise to God’s steadfast love. It was also a prayer for God’s help against the enemy. Charles Spurgeon called it the warror's morning song. Jewish sources say that verse 2 refers to David’s practice of rising each and day before dawn to praise God …
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The world is built on kindness — Psalm 89
Psalms of the Sons of Korah? Why am I writing about Psalm 89 as if it were a Psalm of the sons of Korah when it obviously is not. It is attributed to someone else, it is Ethan the Ezrahite's only attributed psalm, and it is longer than anything that the sons of Korah wrote. …
I am amazed that Christ can work through me
Can God use autistic people I know that I have upset people, which makes me sorry and sad, because I never set out to upset people. Two weeks ago I had a massive meltdown. Six days on I was still suffering from the physical repercussions of that. Let me explain what I mean by meltdown: …
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There is no light at the end of the tunnel — Psalm 88
Psalms of the Sons of Korah For more than fifty years following her initial visions and locutions, Mother Teresa was wrapped in dark, pitiless silence. Only once in that time did she see a glimpse of God, the rest of the time she felt as if the doors of heaven were bolted against her.S he …
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Glorious things of thee are spoken — Psalm 87
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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You, O Lord, are good and forgiving — Psalm 86
Psalms of DavidPsalms 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. …
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The building dictates the music
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 …
Righteousness and peace kiss — Psalm 85
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 …
One of the most sweet of the Psalms of Peace — Psalm 84
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 …
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It’s re-connection time
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 …
Making an ass of myself 