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As we’ve been reading through the whole Bible as a congregation, I have fielded a few questions about Scripture’s apparent references to divine beings other than God. The answer to the following question on that topic has a lot to do with worship, so I’m sharing it with you here.

QUESTION

In Psalm 138, what does it mean by “I will sing praises to You before the gods” in verse 1?

ANSWER

That’s a great question. The Hebrew word is elohim, which really can (in this context) be translated as gods.

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Honestly, the dividing line piercing the Christian church today separates those who still have some small and slight residual fear of God and those who have none.

The dividing line flows between those who feel the weight of defending their sheep from thieves and wolves, and those who laugh at such histrionics. And trust me: those who signed the protest against Pastor Steven Warhurst are ground zero of those who laugh at such histrionics.

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It had turned into the wee hours of Saturday morning when, returning to the house for the next box, I came around the back corner of the manse and found two policemen standing on the top of the stairway shining their flashlights into the house through our kitchen windows. Their squad car sat in the driveway with the engine running.

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Christians today need to be woke to the fact that Western consumerism is one of the reasons we're so vulnerable to false shepherds and hirelings. Conferences, authors, podcasters, Bible versions, books, and churches aren't so much the means of discipleship today as trademarks and brand names we conspicuously consume.

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Skip forward a quarter century. Now the year is 2023, and Christianity Today is doing an expose of John MacArthur's pastoral failures in cases of domestic abuse from many years ago. Look, I'm sixty-nine and grew up in Wheaton. I know many of these guys. So let me share my humble opinion that, although it's well-known I'm not a part of his fan club, Pastor John MacArthur is not Evangelicals' bad guy.

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I am so honored to be here. All glory to God!

I’m from a traditional Buddhist family—all my relatives are devout buddhists. We worshipped our ancestors. We worshipped at all the temples.

At work, all my colleagues worshipped idols. I worked for a very advanced pharmaceutical company and as a company we worshipped idols and asked for peace.

My company sent me to Yilan County to set up a new factory. In order to establish a new factory, one of the very first things I did was to go pick out a nice piece of wood and I found a famous sculptor. Just as we read in Isaiah 44 this morning, I crafted an idol. It took half a year to sculpt that piece of wood into a Land god and we put it into a specially crafted temple. This was MY JOB.

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This past Wednesday (February 22, 2023), the Indiana House voted to remove taxpayer funding from Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute. The headline was “Indiana House Strips State Dollars from IU’s Sex-Studying Kinsey Institute.” On social media, I linked to the article and commented:

Twenty years ago, the movie “Kinsey” was released, and I took the occasion to publish this short oped in our local paper here in Bloomington, the Herald Times...

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Can any of us today find the faith to admit this is not the nature of self-announced super-apostles drawing the big crowds and numbers today? We may sell our conference lineup as a “gospel coalition,” but when have these famous preachers and their famous conferences resulted in registrants being “pierced to the heart” and crying out “What shall we do?”

We must guard our sheep from these men demanding their attention. They do not ever serve the needs of our sheep which their true shepherd sees and works to expose and heal. They do not call our sheep to repentance. Like Dane Ortlund of Gentle and Lowly fame, they heal the sheep lightly—meaning falsely.

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Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions. The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here.

Excerpt: "Remember our purpose wasn’t to harass people or stick our noses into their private business. The elders were going out to ask the souls under our care if they had been hurt or offended in some way we didn’t know—was that why they never were in worship? Was there something we could do to help them return to church? The elders weren’t out to show their neighbors how much more religious they were. They were out visiting because faithful participation in worship is the main tool God uses to awaken our consciences and lead us to repentance and faith in His Son."

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions. The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here.

Intro and outro music is Rise Up, O Lord, a recording of Psalm 10 by My Soul Among Lions. The rest of MSAL's recorded Psalms can be listened to, here.