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The Message of Psalms: Songs for the People of God is unavailable, but you can change that!

The book of Psalms is a favorite of Christians, even though we frequently read it in portions and pieces, hopscotch through the familiar, and avoid the odd, the unpleasant, and the difficult. But though the individual psalms arose from an assortment of times, experiences, and settings, the book of Psalms is composed in a deliberate pattern, not as a random anthology. The meaning of the Psalms is...

These judgments, whether they take place in our time or beyond it, are eagerly awaited by the psalmists, who thus encourage us in the confidence that bad men do not in the end get away with their wickedness. On the other hand, we should learn equally the healthy respect due to a Judge who has every right to include us ourselves among the bad men. The question of how to define the fifth of these basic words can be answered simply. The assembly is what the New Testament will call
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