Cry Justice! Day 4

By James Boice
Theme: Justice or Mercy?
 
In this week’s lessons we see how David dealt with the anguish of being unjustly accused, and learn the need to leave our own mistreatment with the Lord, trusting him to act justly.
 
Scripture: Psalm 7:1-17
 
Distinguished in this way, between heavenly and earthly justice, Christians naturally embrace the heavenly conception. But Lewis rightly asks us to yearn for earthly justice as well, and to work for it.

Distinguished in this way, between heavenly and earthly justice, Christians naturally embrace the heavenly conception. But Lewis rightly asks us to yearn for earthly justice as well, and to work for it. For one thing, to do this puts us on the side of those who traditionally have had difficulty obtaining justice.

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Cry Justice! Day 3

By James Boice
Theme: Is Anyone Ever Innocent?
 
In this week’s lessons we see how David dealt with the anguish of being unjustly accused, and learn the need to leave our own mistreatment with the Lord, trusting him to act justly.
 
Scripture: Psalm 7:1-17
 
Yesterday we concluded by considering the issue of false accusations, and said that there are two surprising features which can create problems for us.

Yesterday we concluded by considering the issue of false accusations, and said that there are two surprising features which can create problems for us. The first is David’s insistence on his own innocence, and how this fits with the Bible’s teaching that we are not innocent.  

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Virtue Rewarded, Beauty and the Beast, and 50 Shades

Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 by Aimee Byrd on Housewife Theologian

The concept of female sexuality altered once again. Except the plot isn't that different.

So in my latest obsession with New England women living around the times of 1650-1750ish, I keep coming across the mention of a popular fiction book that was all the rage, Pamela or Virtue Rewarded, by Samuel Richardson. It’s about a 15-year-old young woman who is taken captive by an abusive man, Mr. B. She starts out as a servant in his household who has been taught the ways of being a lady by his mother. After this mother’s death, Pamela is put under the watch of Mr. B’s horrible accomplice housekeeper, Mrs.

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Luther, Beer and 1522

Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

A recent gift provoked reflections upon the biggest crisis moment of Luther's reforming career.

I have received unexpected and unsolicited gifts of two drinking vessels recently.  The first, from the person we at the Spin know simply as Evil Amy the Less, the author who last year had the slanderous temerity to base (and indeed name) the character of an alcoholic priest in her novel of medieval times upon a distinguished and universally loved and respected church historian, needs no further comment.

 

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The Descent of Man

Posted on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 by Carl Trueman on Postcards from Palookaville

A quotation from Augustine on the progress of sin.

Reading Augustine's De Trinitate this semester with a group of students, I was struck by this brilliant analysis of the way that sin operates.  It comes from Book XII:

 

"For just as a snake does not walk with open strides bur wriggles along by the tiny little movements of its scales, so the careless glide little by little along the slippery path of failure, and beginning from a distorted appetite for being like God they end up by becoming like beasts."

 

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Cry Justice! Day 2

By James Boice
Theme: False Accusations
 
In this week’s lessons we see how David dealt with the anguish of being unjustly accused, and learn the need to leave our own mistreatment with the Lord, trusting him to act justly.
 
Scripture: Psalm 7:1-17
 
David does not report the accusation against him in detail.
David does not report the accusation against him in detail. But it seems, from verses 3 and 4, that he had been accused of doing evil to one whom he had no cause to regard as an enemy and of robbing one whom, though he was an enemy, he had no cause to abuse. There are two things we need to note about this specifically. First, a slander like this was a serious matter for one in David's position.

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Cry Justice! Day 1

By James Boice
Theme: David’s Growing Intensity
 
In this week’s lessons we see how David dealt with the anguish of being unjustly accused, and learn the need to leave our own mistreatment with the Lord, trusting him to act justly.
 
Scripture: Psalm 7:1-17
 
If you have been paying close attention to the psalms preceding Psalm 7 and have been comparing them, you may have noticed a growth in the intensity of feeling on David's part.

If you have been paying close attention to the psalms preceding Psalm 7 and have been comparing them, you may have noticed a growth in the intensity of feeling on David's part. The first two psalms are introductory and are not by David, so far as we know. But the next ones, indeed, almost all the psalms in the psalter's first division (Psalms 1-41), are by David, and it is the earliest of these that show the growth I am talking about. 

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A Psalm of Repentance, Scene 5

By James Boice
Theme: The Psalmist’s Answer
 
In this week’s studies we learn about David’s great affliction, and how his confidence and hope in the Lord were restored through prayer. 
 
Scripture: Psalm 6:1-10
 
The second half of the psalm, which begins with verse 8, contains such a radical change of mood that many commentators seem to be without any adequate explanation.

The second half of the psalm, which begins with verse 8, contains such a radical change of mood that many commentators seem to be without any adequate explanation. They have supposed that something intervenes, like an oracle given to the psalmist by one of the priests. This is an unnecessary and mechanical explanation. What happened is that God heard and accepted David's prayer, as he himself tells us: “Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping. The LORD has heard my cry for mercy; the LORD accepts my prayer (vv. 8-9).

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