this weekend, i and the whole family will be in melaka, not for a holiday (although it is the school holidays now). rather, i will be doing a 3 sessions 7 hours short seminar on the psalms on saturday afternoon to night. the next day will be preaching in the church service at wesley melaka from a psalm (of course!).
so far, i heard from the local pastor that 60 persons have already signed up for the psalms seminar and possibly more may come on the day itself. that is a good number and size to work with.
since it is a rather short seminar, i will be using walter brueggemann's scheme of orientation-disoreintation-reorientation to look at the psalms. this will give the participants a handle to grasp and understand the majority of the psalms and how to use the psalms in a pastoral manner. as for the sunday sermon, i will preach from one of my favourites, psalm 90, entitled 'numbering our days'.
in august, i will be at the presbyterian church of good shepherd j.b. to do a similar weekend seminar on the psalms and of course get to preach during the church service. no guesses for the intended scripture text and sermon title! (but i may decide to change at the last minute! life ought to have some surprises thrown in as a good measure).
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