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About prophecy

June 24, 2025 Mark Brians

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Often we are prone to think that what Biblical prophecies “do” in Scripture is to foretell future events, like “writing the news before it happens” or something. Under this kind of imagination, then, the only real differences between Biblical Prophecy and the palm reader at the local county fair are (1) accuracy, and (2) divine sanction. The Bible’s allowed to do it because it’s God doing it, and he’s reliable because he’s God. The fortune-teller, however, is neither reliable nor allowed to do it, even when they’re accurate. [INSERT summer-camp sermon about the witch of Endor].

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Tags Prophecy, Bible, Prophet, Foretelling, Forth-telling, Preaching

Preaching the Psalter

June 10, 2024 Mark Brians

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This summer we’re preaching through the Psalter. At the outset of the series, I sent our preaching team a brief set of notes laying-out some general rules for how to preach the Psalms.

The problem is this, ours is not a widely poetically literate culture. Poetry has become, in the past century, so abstract and so experimental that it has left us with very little in the way of ability to follow things like rhythm, meter, poetic structure, etc. The irony is that these are not at all hard or complex things to follow —they are actually very simply and, as Dana Gioia once reminded us, we are designed by God to follow them (the same way that bees are designed to follow ‘dance patterns’ to follow the trail to nectar). We ‘get’ poetry when it comes to us in the form of hip-hop, rap, or country music, but we get all clammy and confused when the Bible speaks in a poetic form.

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Tags Psalms, Psalter, Chant, Rules, Exegesis, Study, Preaching, Summer Series, Poetry
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