Habbakuk’s complaints sound a lot like contemporary objections. What, exactly, is the issue?
#1176: When are you saved? | 2 Corinthians 2:4-17 | Nahum | Psalm 71
#1174: What did Isaiah model in prayer? | 1 Corinthians 16 | Isaiah 63-64 | Psalm 70
#1173: Will our spiritual bodies be non-material? | 1 Corinthians 15 | Isaiah 61-62 | Psalm 128
#1171: Why keep no record of wrongs? | 1 Corinthians 13 | Isaiah 56-57 | Psalm 69
Sunday reflection: Jumping to compassion (Psalm 51:1-4)
#1167: What does Christian freedom look like? | 1 Corinthians 8-11:1 | Psalms 66-67, 123
#1163: When is “beyond what is written” okay? | 1 Corinthians 4 | Isaiah 40-41:20 | Psalm 65
#1162: Are there heavenly rewards for earthly work? | 1 Corinthians 3 | Isaiah 38-39 | Psalm 62
#1158: What is Jesus referencing from the cross? | Matthew 27:11-66 | Psalm 22
#1152: Who were Sadducees and Pharisees? | Matthew 22 | Isaiah 13-14 | Proverbs 12:16-28
#1151: When does Jesus deliver justice? | Matthew 21 | Isaiah 11-12 | Psalm 9-10
Today’s OT and Wisdom segments both speak to justice again and, unlike most days where the focus question is about something we bump into in the text, today’s a bigger picture view, because it’s important to remember. When does Jesus deliver justice? We’ll tackle that very briefly at the end of today.
#1150: What does Jesus communicate about fairness? | Matthew 20 | Isaiah 9:8-10:34 | Psalm 61
#1148: How is faith in God vindicated? | Matthew 18 | Isaiah 4-5 | Psalm 58
#1146: What about those who've never heard about Jesus? | Matthew 16 | Psalms 49, 50, 53, 55
#1140: What is a doxology? | Matthew 10 | Amos 4-6
You know that the Bible has many different literary genres — historical narrative and biography and poetry and so on. What it also contains that is less obvious is music. And we might remember that it does when we think about Psalms, but it’s not terribly obvious that we recognize it when we read something like the book of Amos. And that sets up today’s focus question, “What is a doxology?”