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War Psalms of the Prince of Peace: Lessons from the Imprecatory Psalms is unavailable, but you can change that!

25th Anniversary Revised and Expanded Edition. Although the Psalms are much beloved by readers of the Bible, some hostile language in individual psalms may be disconcerting. Are these seemingly vindictive prayers acceptable in the mouths of Christians? How is a pastor supposed to preach these texts? James E. Adams wants us to embrace God’s Word in its entirety, and that means examining the...

God’s justice and love form the ground of both Testaments. One day while speaking to a group of local pastors on the imprecatory psalms, I made the point that there has never been a place for personal vengeance for God’s people. I then quoted Deuteronomy 32:35 (the text, as you may recall, of Jonathan Edwards’s great revival sermon, “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”), where the Lord says: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day
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