street at the emotion of a charismatic church and wonder, by contrast, if his or her own church did emotion at all! The Psalms show us how to develop strong and godly affections, and indeed fierce and healthy aversions as well. They train us to avoid both the unpredictable reefs of charismatic error and the deserts of a dusty orthodoxy. For the Psalms perfectly combine thought and feeling, theology and prayer, emotion and reality, the subjective and the objective.
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