Psalms that Curse with Sean McGowan

Hard Men Podcast

Tate Taylor & Ethan Senn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Should Christians pray the imprecatory Psalms? Many notable Christian voices, including C.S. Lewis, say 'no.' However, we find the imprecatory Psalms on the lips of New Testament authors and Christ. So what's the verdict? In this episode I talk with Sean McGowan, a PCA pastor, about his book, Psalms that Curse. The book makes the case that Psalms of imprecation are important for believers to pray today, and we talk about the biblical argument for doing so. Psalms that Curse, by...

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0:00.0	In the Psalms we read some pretty startling things. For instance in Psalm 137 verse 9
0:18.1	the Psalmus praised that the enemies of God their children would be dashed against the rocks.
0:24.4	Well it brings up a pivotal question for us, which is this, should we be praying these prayers
0:30.0	as a New Testament church?
0:32.2	Now the church today, most people answer no to this question.
0:35.8	And some pretty interesting people, including C.S. Lewis, which we'll talk about in this show,
0:39.9	say no pretty adamantly.
0:42.1	Other people include Michael Horton and his radical two kingdoms theology,
0:46.1	and they say that the Psalms do not apply to New Testament Christians.
0:49.9	What's the major problem?
0:51.6	Well, we find people in the New Testament
0:53.6	like the Apostles and Jesus himself cursing
0:57.4	and with the impractatory Psalms on their lips.
1:05.0	We're going to talk more today about the impractory Psalms and the book by Sean McGowan's Psalms That Curse.
1:15.2	Sean is a pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, Florida, that is part of the
1:21.2	PCA.
1:22.2	We're going to be talking to him about his new book.
1:24.8	Again Psalms that curse imprecatory Psalms, how we should view them and how we
1:29.7	should pray through them in the New Testament era.
1:33.0	Well, Sean, I appreciate you joining me for this episode of the Hardman podcast.
1:42.0	We are of course going to be talking about your book, Psalms that curse.
1:46.7	And I guess first question that I have for you is just, what brought about this book?
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