Singing a New Song!
Watch Here: https://www.youtube.com/live/2gjaSpfCkCw?feature=share With the advent of my church doing a “Summer of Psalms” series, I felt a compulsion to speak on Psalm 40. As many know, I am a bit of a fan of a small band called U2. (Those that really know me are saying, a fan is a bit of an understatement.) On U2’s third album, War, they close out the album with a song called “40”. If you don’t know it, the song is called 40 because it is literally, word-for-word, out of Psalm 40. Being such a huge fan of U2, and of that song, there was no way I was going to let this series go by without exploring Psalm 40 further. Let’s start with a bit of context for this Psalm. It is established that 40 is a Psalm of King David. Scholars believe that King David wrote this Psalm during a time of his reign where he was facing particular opposition and conflict. We don’t know exactly what type of opposition he was facing, but it would seem that the opposition was quite intense, and might have in...