Sublime

Psalm 16 feels more accessible after we’ve walked closely with David.

Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).

I want to supplement Willard’s emphasis on the individual practice of the spiritual disciplines with what might be a counterintuitive thesis in our “millennial” moment: that the most potent, charged, transformative site of the Spirit’s work is found in the most unlikely of places—the church!

All offerings must be made with “the salt of the covenant with your God” (2:13).

For a wise articulation of this point, see Michael Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014).

These seven psalms are among the fifteen chapters known as the Songs of Ascent.

The primary function of Chronicles is to show the trajectory of the covenant fulfillment,