We expect life to be normal, by which we think of something resembling Utopia. However, we find it full of troubles, and it dislocates our thinking. Christians have an explanation for this: the world bears marks of its original goodness, but it is everywhere fallen, and groans for redemption (Rom.8:18-25). …
Peter Barnes: Our Condition, GOD’S Provision, Psalm 73:26 (Sunday 12 April 2020 Evening Service, 6.00 p.m.)
Psalm 73 is a Psalm of struggle. The Psalmist, Asaph, has been looking at this fallen world with jaundiced eyes, and struggling to fit that with God’s promises. We should be able to relate …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 50:15
(26 May 2019)
SERMON NOTES: CALL TO THE LORD IN THE DAY OF TROUBLE
(Psalm 50:15)
Spurgeon: ‘Oh, blessed verse!’
1. This life has trouble.
– Job 21:30; Ps.27:5; Jer.16:19-20; Nah.1:7; Hab.3:16; Ps.20:1; Prov.24:10; 25:19; Jer.51:2; Obad.14.
The day of trouble may be the diagnosis of …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 25:16-22
(12 May 2019)
SERMON NOTES: PRAYING FOR GRACE AND REDEMPTION (Psalm 25:16-22)
David faces internal and external distress. W. S. Plumer: ‘Whoever has one distress has others.’ Calvin dates this to Saul’s threats; Thomas Scott says the threat was Absalom, which is more likely.
1. Affliction …
Peter Barnes: Psalm25:8-15 NO AUDIO
(5 May 2019)
SERMON NOTES: THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD (Psalm 25:8-15)
David begins this acrostic Psalm with a prayer for vindication (25:1-3), guidance (25:4-5), and forgiveness (25:6-7). In the next section, from verses 8-15, David mixes his prayer with a number of affirmations about …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 25:1-7 :
(First 5 minutes poor audio)
(7 April 2019)
SERMON NOTES: TRUSTING IN THE LORD (Psalm 25:1-7)
– one of the acrostic Psalms (like Psalms 9-10; 34, 37, 111, 112, 119, 145; also Proverbs 31:10-31). Each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet …
Peter Barnes: The Lord is my Shepherd – Psalm 23 (NO AUDIO)
(9 December 2018)
SERMON NOTES : THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD (Psalm 23)
Look at all the personal pronouns: The Lord is my shepherd … He leads me, He restores my soul, He guides me. Jesus, the Messiah-Shepherd, …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 35
(9 September 2018)
SERMON NOTES : BEING MISUNDERSTOOD (Psalm 35)
We are all prone rather too readily to sing the ‘I am so misunderstood’ song. Tremper Longman says that David is being falsely accused of a capital crime. This is an imprecatory Psalm, like Psalms 7, …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 141
(17 June 2018)
SERMON NOTES: WHAT TO PRAY FOR (Psalm 141)
The Psalms are songs to be sung, but they are often prayers to be prayed. Psalm 51 is the most obvious example of that – Ps.51:1-2. Psalm 141 is also a prayer – 141:1-2.
1. …
Peter Barnes: Psalm 111
(10 June 2018)
SERMON NOTES: PRAISE THE WORKS OF THE LORD (Psalm 111)
Psalm 111 is an acrostic Psalm, and is echoed in Psalm 112, each with 22 half-verses (there should be eleven verses, not ten). We tend to look for rhymes at the end of …
