Psalms

1. Moses asked the Lord, "Suppose everyone refuses to listen to my message, and no one believes that you really appeared to me?" Contemporary English Version 2. Throughout the different variations of the passage Psalms 23:4, the valley is described in five different ways. The differences in scripture are as follows. Contemporary English version: I may walk through the valley as dark as death, King James Version: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, New Living…

Definition of Sovereignty Sovereignty can be easily defined by quoting Psalms 115:3 “Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him”. This can be put in another way “There is absolutely nothing that happens in the universe that is outside of God’s influence and authority. As King of kings and Lord of lords, God has no limitations.” Basically, this means that since God created the universe he is sovereign over all of his creation. Being sovereign “means being the ultimate source of all power…

the way, but it's a kingdom message to wake up the conqueror in you. Your minds are where the battles are fought. Yes I did say minds, because we have two minds the conscious mind and the subconscious mind (better known as the heart or the Soul). Psalm 23:7 For as he thinkers in his heart, so is he. The conscious mind processes information while the subconscious mind is made up of your Emotions, and your Will. Whatever you absorb from the the atmosphere by listening, seeing, and touching is…

and experience the rich history embedded in the soil of Jerusalem, an experience that cannot be felt through literature and photographs. The sacred and holy nature of Jerusalem stems from the biblical texts of Genesis, 2 Samuels, 2 Chronicles, and Psalms in the New Oxford Annotated Bible, with Apocrypha. These texts intricately weave together several significant and influential hierophanies using powerful language to describe imageries of mountains, temples, and sacrifices…

How bad do you want it? A cry for justice in an unjust world. Psalm 35 Debra Sanders Clark Have you ever been wrongly accused of something? Better yet have you ever made mistakes? We all have! God did not create us perfect although he made us perfectly in his image. We are like him, but we have faults. David sinned and made mistakes just like all of us. But he recognized God in the midst of his troubles. He knew that without God he would perish. Therefore, he chased after him. He chased…

the age of twenty-two, Billings had become a well-respected singing school teacher. At the age of twenty-four, Billings published the New England Psalm Singer, the first collection of entirely American music. Interestingly, Billings’ good friend Paul Revere engraved the front piece of the songbook (Crawford & Hamberlin, 2013). The New England Psalm Singer reflected both the musical and political changes in New England culture. As Crawford and Hamberlin stated, “By 1770, although some Puritan…

Psalm 2: Bow the Knee and Kiss the Son Have you ever been in a situation that caused you to ask the question, “What is going on here?” Maybe it was a humorous moment of confusion, or maybe it was a serious moment of exasperation. Often in situation where it seems like chaos is in charge, we find ourselves wondering “what is going on?” As we look at Psalm 2, we must remember the role that Psalm 1 and 2 play in the Psalter. Both of these act like two great pillars, introducing and providing the…

There are Psalms for times of meditation, despair, worship, and joy. The book of Psalms has a collection of authors, but David was known as the Psalmist due to the psalms he wrote. Tullock mentions that the book of Psalms is similar to a modern church hymnal. Another interesting characteristic about the book is the descriptors of the different periods of Israel’s history. Studies of the book of Psalms have changed in the recent century due to the finding…

The book, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms is written by James L. Mays. It is a book about the book of Psalms viewed as a scripture and a liturgy. The book is concerned with the use of Psalms, and how its central message of the Lord reigns is portrayed. Mays proposes that the word “the Lord reigns” is the main point of Psalms that describes the sovereignty of God. It describes the contents and context of the Psalms individual and as a whole in relation to the other books of…

King David is identified in the superscription as the author of this psalm. David reigned as king from 1010 BC to 970 BC. While David’s exact date of birth and death are not certain, it is difficult to know exactly when this psalm was written. However, knowing when he reigned as king we can conclude that it was sometime around 1000 BC. The audience of this Psalm would have been the Israelites and Judahites. Israelites are an ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac; the nation whom…