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Tag: The church

  • Psalm 87

    Psalm 87

    Commonplace –

    “Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah” (Psalm 87:3).

    Church is not always easy; it’s full of people. People sin, and they sin against one another, even in church. Yet Matthew Henry makes an important point about church,

    “glorious things are spoken of the gospel-church. It is the spouse of Christ, the purchase of his blood; it is a peculiar people, a holy nation, a royal priesthood, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Let us not be ashamed of the church of Christ in its meanest condition, nor of any that belong to it, nor disown our relation to it, though it be turned ever so much to our reproach, since such glorious things are spoken of it, and not one iota or tittle of what is said shall fall to the ground” (Henry 464).

    Works Cited

    Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 87.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.

    Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.

    © 2025 Angela Hormberg

  • Psalm 67

    Psalm 67

    Commonplace –

    “God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah” (Psalm 67:1).

    Us. You and me. The church. All of us. Together.

    Matthew Henry noted, the psalmist

    “begins with a prayer for the welfare and prosperity of the church then in being, in the happiness of which he would share, and think himself happy, v.1. Our Saviour, in teaching us to say, Our Father, has intimated that we ought to pray with and for others; so the psalmist prays here not, God be merciful to me, and bless me, but to us, and bless us; for we make supplication for all saints, and be willing and glad to take our lot with them” (Henry 394).

    Thank you, Lord, for and ‘us’, the communion of saints.

    Works Cited

    Henry, Matthew. “Psalm 67.” Matthew Henry’s Commentary On the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition. Volume 3, Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., March 1996.

    Holy Bible: Giant Print with Study Aids. Dugan Publishers, Inc., 1984.

    © 2025 Angela Hormberg