Tag: psalms

• God Does Not Demand Blood

  Psalm 50:7-15 – 6/4/2026 Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me. I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. Psalm 50:8-9 (NRSVue) God does not demand blood. Sacrifice, in the sense of taking a life to atone for sin, is not…

  Justin R Marquis

  June 2, 2026

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  atonement, bible, christianity, cross, faith, god, jesus, lectionary, penal-substitutionary-atonement, psalms, sacrifice, theology, theory-of-atonement

• The Breath of God, Third Person of the Trinity

  Psalm 104:24-35 – 5/26/2026 When you send forth your spirit [or breath], [living things] are created, and you renew the face of the ground. Psalm 104:30 (NRSVue) The word “Spirit” in both the Greek and Hebrew portions of the Bible is a tricky word. In both languages the word that gets translated as “spirit” primarily…

  Justin R Marquis

  May 23, 2026

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  bible, breath-of-god, christianity, faith, god, holy-spirit, jesus, lectionary, psalms, trinity

• Testimony not Treatise

  Psalm 93 – 5/15/2026 The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty; the Lord is robed; he is girded with strength. He has established the world; it shall never be moved; your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting. Psalm 93:1-2 Who is God? What can truly be ascribed to God?…

  Justin R Marquis

  May 13, 2026

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  bible, christianity, faith, god, jesus, psalms, subjective