WORSHIP NOTES Volume 12, No. 3 (March 2017) Phrasing in music is what rounds out musical thoughts, and enhances the beauty, balance and symmetry of the music. IN NATURE In nature, we find beauty, balance and symmetry. And beautiful objects are often not square, but rather curved and rounded off: IN ART In art, beauty, balance and symmetry are also important elements:: IN ENGLISH In English, sentences are rounded off with …
WORSHIP NOTES Volume 10, No. 10 (October 2015) HOW GOD IS REPRESENTED IN THE PSALMS God’s Powerful Protection Kenneth E. Bailey (The Good Shepherd: A Thousand-Year Journey from Psalm 23 to the New Testament, 35-36) has observed that Psalm 18:1-3 piles up a number of attributes and metaphors that are common throughout the Psalms, all of them what he calls “homeland security” images. Hence: I love you, O LORD, my strength.The LORD is …
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WORSHIP NOTES Volume 10, No. 9 (September 2015) Psalms are the language we use when we need a voice other than our own.(Cornelius Plantinga & Sue A. Rozeboom, Discerning the Spirits:A Guide to Thinking about Christian Worship Today, 160) The Psalms hold a unique place in both Jewish and Christian piety. As has often been pointed out, the full range of human emotions can be found in these 150 songs, …
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