All posts about ‘psalms’
Singing and Praying for Pakistani Flood Victims
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Twenty million people. That’s how many people live in Australia. It’s also how many Pakistanis became displaced when torrential monsoons unleashed the Indus River beyond its banks along the nation’s entire length. The mind shudders to comprehend the magnitude of help needed. Rather than resolve to not think about all those homeless hungry people, you can bring your distress [...]
Tags: Christians in Pakistan, hymns, learning, Pakistan Flood 2010, psalms, suffering, world
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Worship Resources for the Psalms of Ascent
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, N.C.—recipient of a recent Worship Renewal Grant—has published a wealth of high quality resources from their project on the Psalms of Ascent.
Tags: devotions, psalms, Psalms of Ascent, sermons
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Psalms grant featured in Charlotte Observer
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Christ the King Presbyterian Church, recipient of a Worship Renewal Grant, was featured in the Charlotte Observer on Saturday:
Christ the King Presbyterian Church might seem an unlikely congregation to undertake an intensive 15-week focus on the Book of Psalms. The contemporary-style church meets in the Underwood Elementary School gym and attracts a young, casually dressed crowd.
Yet this 9-year-old congregation is reaching deep into the ancient treasures of the Bible to find inspiration for its music, sermons and private devotions.
Tags: media mentions, psalms, Psalms of Ascent, Yonat Shimron
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Presenter Previews: Eric Sarwar at Symposium 2010
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Among over 70 presenters at the upcoming Calvin Symposium on Worship (Jan. 28-30, 2010) will be Eric Sarwar, director of the Tehillim School of Church Music & Worship in Karachi, Pakistan, and an ordained pastor in the Presbyterian Church of Pakistan. Earlier this year, Rev. Sarwar was attacked at gunpoint in Karachi amid an outbreak [...]
Tags: music, pakistan, persecution, prespreviews10, psalms, sarwar
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New exhibit from Makoto Fujimura: 'Olana: Psalms of Ascent'
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
From Image journal’s newsletter: The White Stone Gallery proudly hosts Makoto Fujimura’s newest exhibit, Olana: Psalms of Ascent. Crafted with the ancient Japanese technique and materials of Nihonga, the paintings in this exhibit are devotional imagery made in the last two years. Fujimura describes his latest work as a personal devotional journey between art and [...]
Tags: arts, Fujimura, painting, psalms, visual
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Psalms series at Union University
Thursday, February 26th, 2009
We were grateful for the opportunity to have our director, John Witvliet, travel to Union University last week to give a chapel presentation on the Psalms. Listen to it at Union’s website. This presentation was part of a series this spring at Union on the Psalms and worship. Union received a Worship Renewal Grant to [...]
Tags: Betty Grit, crisis, music, psalms, suffering, tragedy, witvliet
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new installment of 'Book of Praises' by Roger Wagner
Friday, December 19th, 2008
From Image Update: The Book of Praises is a new translation of the Psalms by Roger Wagner. Each psalm is illustrated with wood engravings and paintings in an arrangement of the English and Hebrew text. Book Two of the Psalter, Psalms 42-72, is the long awaited second installment of a project that is eventually intended [...]
Tags: arts, psalms, scripture
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Sermons on the Psalms
Friday, March 16th, 2007
This list of links to sermons on the Psalms is provided for reference and education, and does not necessarily imply endorsement of the teachings of
any individual preacher or the content of any external site.
Tags: psalms, sermons
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Augustine on Psalm 42 at Baptism
Posted by cicw
Thursday, May 7th, 2009
This article mentions that Augustine refers to Psalm 42 as a baptismal declaration. Here is the quote from Augustine’s commentary on Psalm 42: And indeed it is not ill understood as the cry of those, who being as yet Catechumens, are hastening to the grace of the holy Font. On which account too this Psalm [...]
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Tags: augustine, baptism, commentary, earlychurch, history, psalms
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