Someone in the Wed night group asked for a list of Psalms that we are going to go over. This is the list as of today.
Psalms 19, 23, 29, 40, 50, 63, 66, 74, 75, 84, 88, 96, 110, 113, 116, 121, 136, 139, 145, 146, 148, and 150.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Psalm 8
Psalm 8-NIV
A psalm of David.
1 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory
above the heavens.
2 From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise [b]
because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger.
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
4 what is man that you are mindful of him, the son of man that you care for him?
5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings [c] and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet:
7 all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!
Discuss and praise God for his creations you are enamored with and what can you appreciate with a child-like wonder.
You make everything glorious, what does that make me? What does this mean to us that we are made in not only God’s image but that the God who created all of His splendor, made us and saw that we were good? Relate to Self-Esteem and how this contradicts to messages that we have heard from the world about our worth.
Think about this verse “…be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48) in relation to Psalm 8 especially verses 4 -6. Relate this to how we should treat others and discuss this idea “Being a disciple means deliberately identifying yourself with God’s interest in other people” Oswald Chambers My Upmost for His Highest.
Psalms 8
Matthew Henry Commentary
This psalm is a solemn meditation on, and admiration of, the glory and greatness of God, of which we are all concerned to think highly and honourably. It begins and ends with the same acknowledgment of the transcendent excellency of God's name. It is proposed for proof (Psalms 8:1) that God's name is excellent in all the earth, and then it is repeated as proved (with a "quod erat demonstrandum"--which was to be demonstrated) in the Psalms 8:9. For the proof of God's glory the psalmist gives instances of his goodness to man; for God's goodness is his glory. God is to be glorified, I. For making known himself and his great name to us, Psalms 8:1. II. For making use of the weakest of the children of men, by them to serve his own purposes, Psalms 8:2. III. For making even the heavenly bodies useful to man, Psalms 8:3,4. IV. For making him to have dominion over the creatures in this lower world, and thereby placing him but little lower then the angels, Psalms 8:5-8. This psalm is, in the New Testament, applied to Christ and the work of our redemption which he wrought out; the honour given by the children of men to him compared with Matt. xxi. 16) and the honour put upon the children of men by him, both in his humiliation, when he was made a little lower then the angels, and in his exaltation, when he was crowned with glory and honour. Compare with Heb. ii. 6-8; 1 Cor. xv. 27. When we are observing the glory of God in the kingdom of nature and providence we should be led by that, and through that, to the contemplation of his glory in the kingdom of grace.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Women's Bible Study Wed Nights
We are having a Women's Bible Study at 6:30 on Wed Nights starting September 16th, 2009.
The Bridge Church/Rio Vista Center
1431 E. Southern Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85009
E-mail me at mindsonstrike@hotmail.com if you have questions.
The Bridge Church/Rio Vista Center
1431 E. Southern Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85009
E-mail me at mindsonstrike@hotmail.com if you have questions.
Psalms
We are starting with the Psalms.
The word "Psalms" in its original form connotates praises, prayers, and also stringed instruments and their accompanied songs.
There are 150 Psalms which are divided into 5 Books: 1-41, 42-72, 73-89, 90-106 and 107-150.
34 of the Psalms are referred to as the "Orphan Psalms" because they have no superscription.
The word Selah appears 39 times in the Psalms. The meaning however is unknown but it may indicate a brief musical or litergical interlude.
The word "Psalms" in its original form connotates praises, prayers, and also stringed instruments and their accompanied songs.
There are 150 Psalms which are divided into 5 Books: 1-41, 42-72, 73-89, 90-106 and 107-150.
34 of the Psalms are referred to as the "Orphan Psalms" because they have no superscription.
The word Selah appears 39 times in the Psalms. The meaning however is unknown but it may indicate a brief musical or litergical interlude.
- Prayers of the Individual
- Praise from the Individual for Go's saving Help
- prayers of the community
- Praise from the community for God's Saving help
- confessions of confidence in the Lord
- hymns in praise of God's majest and virtues
- Hymns celebrating God's universal reign
- Songs of Zion
- Royal Psalms by for or concerning the Lord's anointed
- Plgrimage songs
- Liturgical songs
- Didactic (instructional songs
Psalm 1
Psalm 1
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Matthew Henry Concise Commentaryon the Whole Bible
Chapter 1
David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and no part of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted or referred to in the New. Every psalm either points directly to Christ, in his person, his character, and offices; or may lead the believer's thoughts to Him. And the psalms are the language of the believer's heart, whether mourning for sin, thirsting after God, or rejoicing in Him. Whether burdened with affliction, struggling with temptation, or triumphing in the hope or enjoyment of deliverance; whether admiring the Divine perfections, thanking God for his mercies, mediating on his truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expressions, the Spirit helps us to pray. If we make the psalms familiar to us, whatever we have to ask at the throne of grace, by way of confession, petition, or thanksgiving, we may be assisted from thence. Whatever devout affection is working in us, holy desire or hope, sorrow or joy, we may here find words to clothe it; sound speech which cannot be condemned. In the language of this Divine book, the prayers and praises of the church have been offered up to the throne of grace from age to age.
1 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked! They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
Matthew Henry Concise Commentaryon the Whole Bible
Chapter 1
David was the penman of most of the psalms, but some evidently were composed by other writers, and the writers of some are doubtful. But all were written by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost; and no part of the Old Testament is more frequently quoted or referred to in the New. Every psalm either points directly to Christ, in his person, his character, and offices; or may lead the believer's thoughts to Him. And the psalms are the language of the believer's heart, whether mourning for sin, thirsting after God, or rejoicing in Him. Whether burdened with affliction, struggling with temptation, or triumphing in the hope or enjoyment of deliverance; whether admiring the Divine perfections, thanking God for his mercies, mediating on his truths, or delighting in his service; they form a Divinely appointed standard of experience, by which we may judge ourselves. Their value, in this view, is very great, and the use of them will increase with the growth of the power of true religion in the heart. By the psalmist's expressions, the Spirit helps us to pray. If we make the psalms familiar to us, whatever we have to ask at the throne of grace, by way of confession, petition, or thanksgiving, we may be assisted from thence. Whatever devout affection is working in us, holy desire or hope, sorrow or joy, we may here find words to clothe it; sound speech which cannot be condemned. In the language of this Divine book, the prayers and praises of the church have been offered up to the throne of grace from age to age.
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