The Songs of God’s People Psalm 144: 1 Blessed be the Lord, my rock,who trains my hands for war,and my fingers for battle;2 he is my steadfast love and my fortress,my stronghold and my deliverer,my shield and he in whom I take refuge,who subdues peoples under me. 3 O Lord, what is man that you…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 143: 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord;give ear to my pleas for mercy!In your faithfulness answer me, in your righteousness!2 Enter not into judgment with your servant,for no one living is righteous before you. 3 For the enemy has pursued my soul;he has crushed my life to the ground;he…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 142: 1 With my voice I cry out to the Lord;with my voice I plead for mercy to the Lord.2 I pour out my complaint before him;I tell my trouble before him. 3 When my spirit faints within me,you know my way!In the path where I walkthey have hidden…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 141: 1 O Lord, I call upon you; hasten to me!Give ear to my voice when I call to you!2 Let my prayer be counted as incense before you,and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice! 3 Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth;keep watch…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 140: 1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evil men;preserve me from violent men,2 who plan evil things in their heartand stir up wars continually.3 They make their tongue sharp as a serpent’s,and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah 4 Guard me, O Lord, from the hands…

A New Song Essay _________________________________________________________________ …just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. 1 Corinthians 15:49   The Value of a Counterfeit (…or, in Christ, even the phoney has value) As a pastor, I occasionally find myself asking non-church-attending acquaintances…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 139: 13 For you formed my inward parts;you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well.15 My frame was not hidden from you,when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 139: 1 O Lord, you have searched me and known me!2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.3 You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.4 Even before a word is on my…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 138: 1 I give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart;before the gods I sing your praise;2 I bow down toward your holy templeand give thanks to your name for your steadfast love and your faithfulness,for you have exalted above all thingsyour name and your word.3 On the…

  The Songs of God’s People Psalm 137: 1 By the waters of Babylon,there we sat down and wept,when we remembered Zion.2 On the willows therewe hung up our lyres.3 For there our captorsrequired of us songs,and our tormentors, mirth, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!” 4 How shall we sing the Lord’s songin…