This 2 DVD series entitled, The Psalms: The Hard Road From Obedience To Praise includes three lectures plus Q & A times on these topics:
Lecture 1 Orientation: The Hard Road from Obedience to Praise
Lecture 2 Disorientation: Faith in the Depths
Lecture 3 New Orientation: Faith as Gift and as Impossibility
The set, produced by Miko. can be purchased by clicking here.
Brueggemann is relentlessly honest with what’s in the text, making us see what’s there (vengeance, violence and all) and then shows us why and what for before we get the editorial scissors out. In truth, evangelical avoidance … pretending the ‘ugly’ texts don’t exist … is certainly no different than certain liberal tendencies to simply say they shouldn’t be there. Brueggemann unabashedly grapples with these kind of issues … I commend the DVDs to anyone who wants a fresh look at the OT.
Is Brueggemann brandishing that watch as prayer beads or brass knuckles? This is the very ambiguity of imprecatory psalms.
“Let the reader understand.”
I think hated and vengeance belongs to God so we should keep giving it to him. I think he goes after the devil’s lies not people. I think God always finds ways to love us his ways not ours what do you think?
The most change has come to my heart when I’ve sung my complaints to God. He’s never hung up on me yet 🙂