Psalm 99 calls all its hearers to exalt and worship the Holy One.  This Psalm is part of the larger section of Psalm 93-100 which focuses on the LORD’s kingly reign.  It surely echoes the other neighboring Psalms by holding up for us the Holy LORD who reigns over all the earth.  Yet one of [...]

In recent years it has become increasingly common for theologians to focus their attention on the sphere in which redemption occurs. The Temple motif from the Garden of Eden to the Heavenly City–New Jerusalem–is traced out in such noteworthy works as O. Palmer Robertson’s Christ of the Prophets, and Understanding the Land of the Bible; [...]

Two years ago when I was in Johnstown, PA I finished a series of sermons on the first two books of the Psalter. That was a challenge, but a joy to preach through them Biblical-Theologically. I am back again preaching through the Psalter here in Ringoes. And sometimes I forget what I learned the first [...]