I’ve grown up with the assumption that actions without feelings are meaningless and that it would have been better to not act at all. The wrong feelings would compromise integrity, epitomize hypocrisy and nullify any good that came of the action. This view was especially true for me in worship. I felt like the worship [...]
Eugene Peterson summarizes Psalm 122 in his book, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, as singling out three aspects of worship:
“…worship gives us a workable structure for life; worship nurtures our need to be in relationship with God; worship centers our attention on the decision of God.” p.51
The first aspect is that worship provides [...]
Original post on this Psalm is here.
We covered Psalm 121 last night at small group and I’m excited about the insights that were shared. Here are some of the ideas that I came away with.
The psalm begins with the visual of a traveler looking to the hills, the place where people would go to [...]
Psalm 121
A song of ascents.
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
where does my help come from?
Derek Kidner in the Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries Volume on Psalms 73-150 suggests that maybe the hills are a source of refuge like the depiction in Psalm 11:1 where David writes “to flee to the mountains like a [...]
Excerpt from Chapter 2 of Eugene Peterson’s, A Long Obedience, pp. 30-31
The usual biblical word describing the no we say to the world’s lies and the yes we say to God’s truth is repentance. It is always and everywhere the first word in the Christian life…
Repentance is not an emotion. It is not feeling sorry [...]
