Baptist Bulletin Podcast: Worship and Lament
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“Mike chats with Mark Vroegop, lead pastor of College Park Church in Indianapolis, about a variety of issues including pastoral ministry, worship, and lament.” - GARBC
The Book of Psalms and the Biblical Covenants (Part 5)
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The Christology of the Psalms continued …
Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension
Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension in Psalms 16:10 (resurrection), and 68:18 (ascension).
Psalm 16:10: “For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.”
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The Book of Psalms and the Biblical Covenants (Part 1)
Vows made to You are binding upon me; O God… (Psalm 56:12)
I will go into your house with burnt offerings; I will pay you my vows, which my lips have uttered… (Psalms 66:13-14)
The heaven, even the heaven of heavens; are the Lord’s; but the earth has He given to the children of men (Psalms 115:16)
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The Difference Between Lament and Grumbling
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“These Psalms of lament would not be in the Scripture if they were teaching us to do something sinful… so we learn, there is a way we can lament our circumstances before God. What’s the difference?” - Challies
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How to Pray a Psalm
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Review: Allen Ross on the Psalms (Vol.3)
Finally we have the third and final volume of the Kregel Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Psalms by Allen P. Ross, Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. This one covers Psalms 90 through 150 and brings the complete set to three thousand pages. The first two volumes were outstanding. I have found that I turn to them first for exegetical and even homiletical material (alongside VanGemeren in the EBC).
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Power in the Psalms
What the Psalms do to us
The Psalms teach us to be deeply occupied with our God. They magnify and exalt Him as the Sovereign Creator and Ruler of the universe. What is it to be much occupied with God? It is to treasure His Word, to delight in His worship, to reflect on His glorious attributes, to rehearse His great acts in history, to trust in His care, to glory in His gospel and to anticipate His final victory. The more we are occupied with God, the more strength we find for living.
The Psalms teach us to praise our God and also show us how to praise Him. There are few lessons that we need more. So very often we mumble mechanical praise from hearts that are crowded with unworthy loves and occupied with earthly concerns. The need is for robust praise from hearts that are deeply schooled in the stunning truths of the Sovereign Lord who not only made us but pours from his bounty countless blessings, the chief of which is eternal salvation through his Son.
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