If you haven’t listened to Sons Of Korah singing their interpretations of the Psalms you’re missing out.
They’re especially good live.
Here’s Psalm 137.
If you haven’t listened to Sons Of Korah singing their interpretations of the Psalms you’re missing out.
They’re especially good live.
Here’s Psalm 137.
Chad Bird likens the action of the church in greeting the me generation with an emphasis on an individualistic experience of salvation to attempting to douse a fire with petrol.
His comments below are well balanced in that they do not make the fulfilment of Adam and Eve out to be marriage, as if any human that is not married has a less that complete life. What they do recognise is that the fulness of humanity cannot be expressed or experienced without relating to other humans.
From Upside-Down Spirituality:
The very first time God said something was “not good” was when someone was alone. The earth was good. The heavens were good. The animals and seas and mountains were good. But Adam, all on his lonesome, without another human being, without someone to complement him, live with him, and be his family, his helper, his own flesh and blood – that was not good at all. A private Adam who had a personal relationship with his Creator was simply not going to cut it. He may have been a glorious, regal, beautiful human being, but he was still not independent. Therefore God gave him Eve, built from his own body. He belonged to her and she to him. The depended on each other, leaned on each other, found fulfilment in each other.
Humanity was not truly complete until singular had expanded into plural, until I had become We.Chad Bird, Upside-Down Spirituality: The Nine Essential Failures Of A Faithful Life, Baker, 2019, pgs 168-169.
Listened to the Civil Wars on a long car road today.
Makes me sad, but I love the way their voices worked together.
This is a very early rendition of From This Valley by the erstwhile duo.
Two voices and one guitar.
The sheer joy of their earlier recordings of this are sublime, and I like them better than the version which was latterly included on their second and final album.
Here’s another from around the same time.
I was introduced to the writings of John Charles Ryle by my then pastor, George Logan.
Ryle’s writings on the Gospels are timeless: theological and practical, doctrinal and devotional.
Reading them never fails to inform and instruct.
It was a pleasure to order a Ryle theologian statue.
Here’s a brief article about him written by John Piper.
