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Pictures for Worship

Published on May 31, 2009 in Psalms. 0 Comments

“One of the crewmembers aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis snapped this photo of heavy cloud cover over the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.”

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“The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.”  Psalm 19:1-2

“The NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit at 12:17p.m. EDT, on May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida in this image released by NASA May 14. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km (375 miles) and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds.”

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Paul David Tripp – Whiter Than Snow

Published on July 3, 2008 in Psalms and Recommended Reading. 0 Comments

Paul Tripp has a new book out on Psalm 51, Whiter Than Snow: Meditations on Sin and Mercy.  (Psalm 51 is David’s Psalm of repentance, post-Bathsheba).  If you do nothing other than watch this 4 minute clip, your understanding of how to read the Psalms will grow.

HT:Between Two Worlds

There Is No Third

Published on May 21, 2008 in Psalms and Word of God. 1 Comment

Who are you?  Who-who, who-who?

Psalm 1 describes two kinds of people.  Which are you?

Option #1 – The first is the person who delights in God’s Word.  If you studied the life of this kind of person, you would be struck by his or her ongoing meditation on Scripture.

Option #2  – The alternative is the person who keeps company with people who have no regard for Christ or his word.  This person hangs out with Beevis. 

You might answer, “Well, I’m not sure that I fit either category.  I have this kind of third option going – - I’m a hybrid – - I’m not really sold out about God’s Word, but then I don’t think I’m Beevis’ sidekick either.  I’m option #3.”

Here’s the thing.  Read Psalm 1.  Read Matthew 7:13-29.  There is no third. 

There are two kinds of people.  Those who delight in God’s Word and those who don’t.

There are two roads: a broad road and a  narrow one.  

There are two kinds of houses: those built on the sandy land, and those built on the Rock.

There are two kinds of trees: those that bear fruit and those that don’t. 

There are two eternal destinies, not three.

As Derek Kidner as pointed out, there will come a day when the two ways, and there is no third, part forever.