https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HapLvuPwLHg If you are tempted to be discouraged by the madness of the year 2020, with the waves of our demented culture frothing the way they do, just remember ...
Discouraged by the Madness?
Psalm 120/A Lament About Liars
Sermon Video The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm is the first in a series of fifteen psalms, called from ancient times psalms of ascent, or psalms of degree. What this means ...
Psalm 119/ A Hymn to the Word
Sermon Video The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: And here we come to a great hymn of gratitude and praise, offered up to God for His glorious law. We have here the definitive answer ...
Psalm 118/ The Stone the Builders Rejected
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: And so these Hallel psalms conclude on a note of high triumph—but it is triumph through the midst of trials. This is triumph that perseveres ...
Psalm 117/ The Christ of the Jews for the Gentiles
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: The Hallel psalms are psalm of praise—they are Hallelujah psalms. This one also concludes with that exclamation of praise. This is a very brief ...
Psalm 116/ The Grace of Answered Prayer
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm is a wonderful testimony of praise, giving glory to God for all the things He did to undertake for the psalmist. The Lord delivered ...
Shaped by Our Worship of Him/Ps. 115
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: God alone is the God of all glory, and so we must turn to Him in order to bless Him alone. And when we give glory to Him, He in His divine grace has fashioned the world in such a way as to allow us to become a reflected …
Psalm 114/ Song of the Exodus
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: As we continue through the Hallel Psalms, we come to the second of them, and this is a great song of historical remembrance. When we set ourselves to praise God, to say hallelujah, we are to remember His great works of deliverance in history. A great part of our …
Psalm 113/Praise Jah!
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This particular psalm begins the section of the psalter that is known as the Hallel Psalms. This section is Ps. 113 through 118. It was the custom of Jews to recite this section verbatim on festival occasions of praise. The word hallel means praise, and so when we are …
Psalm 112/The Blessedness of Godly Delight
The Twelfth Decade of Psalms: Introduction: This psalm is part of a matched set, together with the previous one. Both this psalm and Ps. 111 are alphabetic psalms, with each portion beginning with the next letter in the Hebrew alphabet. As a consequence, the two psalms are right around the same length, and there are …