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Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms

Alexander MacLaren (1826–1910) was a Scottish Baptist minister famed for expository preaching. After early pastorates he settled at Union Chapel, Manchester, for forty-five years, and twice served as president of the Baptist Union. MacLaren prepared his sermons with a scholar's care and delivered them with a poet's touch; the many volumes of his Expositions of Holy Scripture — whole-Bible preaching in print — form his monument in our library.

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First published
1904
Category
Theology
Length
243k words · about 16 hours
Chapters
81
Modernized version
In the reader: the Original, the Modernized text in present-day English, or both side by side. On average, the Modernized text keeps about 92% of the original wording.

About this book

One volume of Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture, gathering his expository sermons on the Psalms. MacLaren, the Manchester preacher famed for the clarity and freshness of his pulpit work, takes passage after passage and opens its meaning with careful structure and vivid application. These sermons reward slow reading, whether for study, preaching preparation, or private devotion.

Contents

  1. Blessedness and Praise
  2. A Staircase of Three Steps
  3. One Saying from Three Men
  4. Man’s True Treasure in God
  5. God with Us, and We with God
  6. The Two Awakings
  7. Secret Faults
  8. Open Sins 🔒
  9. Feasting on the Sacrifice 🔒
  10. The Shepherd King of Israel 🔒
  11. A Great Question and Its Answer 🔒
  12. The God Who Dwells with Men 🔒
  13. Guidance in Judgment 🔒
  14. A Prayer for Pardon and Its Plea 🔒
  15. God’s Guests 🔒
  16. ‘Seek Ye’—‘I Will Seek’ 🔒
  17. The Two Guests 🔒
  18. ‘Be . . . for Thou Art’ 🔒
  19. ‘Into Thy Hands’ 🔒
  20. Goodness Wrought and Goodness Laid Up 🔒
  21. Hid in Light 🔒
  22. A Threefold Thought of Sin and Forgiveness 🔒
  23. The Encamping Angel 🔒
  24. Struggling and Seeking 🔒
  25. No Condemnation 🔒
  26. Sky, Earth, and Sea: A Parable of God 🔒
  27. What Men Find Beneath the Wings of God 🔒
  28. The Secret of Tranquillity 🔒
  29. The Bitterness and Blessedness of the Brevity of Life 🔒
  30. Two Innumerable Series 🔒
  31. Thirsting for God 🔒
  32. The Psalmist’s Remonstrance with His Soul 🔒
  33. The King in His Beauty 🔒
  34. The Portait of the Bride 🔒
  35. The City and River of God 🔒
  36. The Lord of Hosts, the God of Jacob 🔒
  37. A Song of Deliverance 🔒
  38. Two Shepherds and Two Flocks 🔒
  39. David’s Cry for Pardon 🔒
  40. David’s Cry for Purity 🔒
  41. Fear and Faith 🔒
  42. A Song of Deliverance 🔒
  43. The Fixed Heart 🔒
  44. Waiting and Singing 🔒
  45. Silence to God 🔒
  46. Thirst and Satisfaction 🔒
  47. Sin Overcoming and Overcome 🔒
  48. The Burden Bearing God 🔒
  49. Reasonable Rapture 🔒
  50. Nearness to God the Key to Life’s Puzzle 🔒
  51. Memory, Hope, and Effort 🔒
  52. Sparrows and Altars 🔒
  53. Happy Pilgrims 🔒
  54. Blessed Trust 🔒
  55. ‘The Bridal of the Earth and Sky’ 🔒
  56. A Sheaf of Prayer Arrows 🔒
  57. Continual Sunshine 🔒
  58. The Cry of the Mortal to the Undying 🔒
  59. The Sheltering Wing 🔒
  60. The Habitation of the Soul 🔒
  61. The Answer to Trust 🔒
  62. What God Will Do for Us 🔒
  63. Forgiveness and Retribution 🔒
  64. Inviolable Messiahs and Prophets 🔒
  65. God’s Promises Tests 🔒
  66. Soldier Priests 🔒
  67. God and the Godly 🔒
  68. Experience, Resolve, and Hope 🔒
  69. Requiting God 🔒
  70. A Cleansed Way 🔒
  71. Life Hid and Not Hid 🔒
  72. A Stranger in the Earth 🔒
  73. ‘Time for Thee to Work’ 🔒
  74. Submission and Peace 🔒
  75. Looking to the Hills 🔒
  76. Mountains Round Mount Zion 🔒
  77. The Charge of the Watchers in the Temple 🔒
  78. God’s Scrutiny Longed For 🔒
  79. The Incense of Prayer 🔒
  80. The Prayer of Prayers 🔒
  81. The Satisfier of All Desires 🔒

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