by Timothy Shorey | Oct 31, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
Today’s Reading: Psalm 18:1-50/focus on Psalm 18:1-6 (Sorry: no Spurgeon quote today) Cardiphonia:* We come today to the first of the longer prayer-songs in The Book of the Psalms. For the sake of clarity of content, suitability of tune (for each section) and overall...
by Timothy Shorey | Oct 24, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
Today’s Reading: Psalm 17 Spurgeon Comments: “…To behold God’s face and to be changed by that vision into his image, so as to partake in his righteousness, this is [the psalmist’s] noble ambition; and in the prospect of this he cheerfully waives all [his]...
by Timothy Shorey | Oct 17, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
“Who is Psalm 16 about? We are not left to human interpreters for the key to this golden mystery, for, speaking by the Holy Ghost, Peter tells us, ‘David speaks concerning him’ (Acts 2:25.) Further on…he said, ‘Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the...
by Timothy Shorey | Oct 10, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
“‘Yahweh, o high and holy One, who shall be permitted to have fellowship with you, who are a consuming fire?’ A humble sense of God’s glory and holiness awakens the theme of Psalm 15 in the psalmist’s heart. If angels bow with veiled faces, how shall man be able to...
by Timothy Shorey | Oct 3, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
Interrupting Our Regularly Scheduled Post [The following is excerpted from a longer article, “Seeing Christ in the Psalms”. This is offered today in place of our next Psalter installment to help believers read (and sing) the Psalms to greater effect. God-willing,...
by Timothy Shorey | Sep 26, 2020 | Songs and Psalmody
“You will find this same psalm over in Psalm 53, with hardly any alteration. Why is this? Did the Holy Spirit take such special notice of the sayings and deeds of a fool, that one expression of them was not enough? Or are the babblings and madness of a fool so...
