This Psalm is the last of the six which the Jews knew as the “Hallel”, meaning praise; (thus Hallelujah, or Hallel Yahweh). Although all the Psalms abound in praise to God, these six, from 113 to 118, were particularly marked because they were sung in the … [Read more...] about Psalm 118
Geriatric Meditations
Psalm 63
The Psalms of David have come to be regarded as a collection of poetic productions composed for literary effect and expressing doctrinal sentiments. But this is not so; we should remember that David’s psalms were not only written by him but were lived by him, … [Read more...] about Psalm 63
Psalm 50
Christianity has ignored the Old Testament except to extract and misappropriate God’s favourable promises to Israel, while ignoring those passages recording His wrath towards His rebellious people; but we neglect the Old Testament at our peril for it … [Read more...] about Psalm 50
Psalm 32
The Psalms aren’t in chronological order and Psalm 32 came after Psalm 51, David’s great penitential Psalm, which was written after he “gave occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme” (2 Samuel 12:14). David’s sin was great, the earthly fruit of which was … [Read more...] about Psalm 32
Presence of God
Within each human heart there exists a deep, hidden, unexplainable desire and the lives of most people are spent in a restless and fruitless search for something to satisfy that desire. The search is fruitless because we are always looking in the wrong place, … [Read more...] about Presence of God
Sacrifice
Contrary to the conventional wisdom of Christianity and the teaching of the Church for almost two thousand years, the primary object of the coming of the Son, in as much as it applies to man, was not the salvation of man, but his restoration to that condition … [Read more...] about Sacrifice