The Strong Spines of the Uncool

Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2019 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

Lester Bangs got it right.

I’m almost through reading Mark Edmundson’s thought-provoking work, The Heart of Humanities: Reading, Writing, Teaching, and I just came across a line that really sums up the theme of his whole book: 
 
“’The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what

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Wednesday: Holy, Holy, Holy

By James Boice

Theme: Four Contributing Elements

In this week’s lessons, we learn of God’s holiness, and of what our response ought to be in light of it.

Scripture: Psalm 99:1-9

As we saw in yesterday's study, holiness is the characteristic of God that sets him apart from his creation. It has at least four contributing elements:

As we saw in yesterday's study, holiness is the characteristic of God that sets him apart from his creation. It has at least four contributing elements:

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Tuesday: Holy, Holy, Holy

By James Boice

Theme: The Lord on His Throne

In this week’s lessons, we learn of God’s holiness, and of what our response ought to be in light of it.

Scripture: Psalm 99:1-9

"His awful holiness!" That is a good phrase of J.J. Stewart Perowne's, because it is exactly what the first stanza is intended to impress on the worshiper. It begins by picturing the Lord sitting upon his throne in heaven, much like an earthly monarch might receive visitors to his court while sitting on an earthly throne.

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Monday: Holy, Holy, Holy

By James Boice

Theme: The Holy, Holy, Holy Psalm

In this week’s lessons, we learn of God’s holiness, and of what our response ought to be in light of it.

Scripture: Psalm 99:1-9

Psalm 99 is about the holiness of God. It is about his kingly reign, too, since it begins with the words "the LORD reigns” (it is the third psalm to do so; the others are Psalms 93 and 97) and it is the next to last in the series of eight royal psalms, beginning with Psalm 92 and ending with Psalm 100. But chiefly Psalm 99 is about God's holiness, which is important for us to understand if we are to appreciate the character of this supreme and reigning Monarch.

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Friday: An Exuberant Praise Psalm

By James Boice

Theme: When All Creation Will Praise

In this week’s lessons, we see that all creation is called upon to praise the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9

The final stanza is poetic and in some ways the most unexpected. For in it, in beautiful language, the psalmist calls upon the entire creation to praise God. In the first stanza the appeal is to Israel. In the second stanza the appeal is to the nations of the earth. In this last stanza the call is to creation or, as we would say, the cosmos. The reason for it is that God is coming to "judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity” (v. 9).

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Thursday: An Exuberant Praise Psalm

By James Boice

Theme: Praise to God the King

In this week’s lessons, we see that all creation is called upon to praise the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9

The second stanza of Psalm 98 praises God as King, which is why it is included in the block of royal psalms (Psalms 93-100). The first stanza praised God as Savior and called on the people of Israel to sing a new song to him. This stanza views him as king not only of Israel but of the whole earth.

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Constructing a Course...Constructively

Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2019 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

Teaching doctrine must open students' eyes to the doxology which drove dogmatic formulation.

I have been asked to put together an undergraduate elective course on the doctrine of God for Grove students for next year.  There is, of course, a current (and most welcome) revival of interest in Protestant circles in classical Trinitarianism and the theology of the first four ecumenical councils, built on the back of the historical scholarship of the last thirty years in patristic, medieval, and early modern areas.    We now know so much more about what the church through the ages thought about its greatest dogmas that, for orthodox Christians today, one could borrow

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Wednesday: An Exuberant Praise Psalm

By James Boice

Theme: A Great Victory!

In this week’s lessons, we see that all creation is called upon to praise the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9

As we read yesterday, the New Testament reveals three kinds of deliverance. We have already looked at the first kind, deliverance from sin.

As we read yesterday, the New Testament reveals three kinds of deliverance. We have already looked at the first kind, deliverance from sin.

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Tuesday: An Exuberant Praise Psalm

By James Boice

Theme: Our Need for Deliverance

In this week’s lessons, we see that all creation is called upon to praise the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9

Each of the three stanzas of this psalm calls on one part of creation to praise God, and in the first stanza this is Israel (vv. 1-3). This is because, "He [God] has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel" (v. 3).

Each of the three stanzas of this psalm calls on one part of creation to praise God, and in the first stanza this is Israel (vv. 1-3). This is because, "He [God] has remembered his love and his faithfulness to the house of Israel" (v. 3).

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Monday: An Exuberant Praise Psalm

By James Boice

Theme: The Expansion of Worship

In this week’s lessons, we see that all creation is called upon to praise the Lord.

Scripture: Psalm 98:1-9

There is a well-known and frequently quoted passage in Ecclesiastes that declares, "There is a time for everything,…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance" (Eccles. 3:1, 4).

There is a well-known and frequently quoted passage in Ecclesiastes that declares, "There is a time for everything,…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance" (Eccles. 3:1, 4). The passage is familiar and frequently quoted because it applies to so many experiences of life. The point I want to make here is that it applies to Psalm 98.

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