I remember listening to Prince and the Revolution a lot. Some of Prince’s music is absolutely brilliant. I heard his song, Kiss on the radio yesterday. It took me back to times walking in France when I used to teach my Dad Prince songs whilst walking in Brittany. I would not say it is wrong to ever listen to Prince, but Prince had values that I started to adopt in my mind because I was continually listening to his music. I didn’t study those values, I just assimulated them. I need to ask myself what I continually set before me now.
Psalm 16
- Why does David, the psalmist, cry out to God?
- Where have the lines fallen for David?
- What instructs David in the night?
- How is the life of the mind essential to spiritual growth?
- If you looked at your actions, what would they say you believed?
Going Deeper
Observation
- What good does David have besides the Lord?
- Who are the majestic ones?
- What will happen to those who have given up their God?
- What is David’s heritage to him?
- To what will David’s soul not be abandoned?
Interpretation
- How does ‘inheritance’ play as a theme in this psalm?
- What is ‘holiness’? What does it mean that God is holy?
- How does Acts 13: 36-37 show Paul’s understanding of this psalm?
- What is Sheol? Is it the same as hell?
- How does the Jewish understanding of the afterlife develop in the Old Testament?
Application
- Do you see inheritance as a gift from God?
- Jesus said that we are to be holy as God is holy (Mtt 5: 48). How would that work itself out in your life?
- What is your view of the afterlife? How does it compare with the view in the Bible?
- What do you dream about?
- How are dreams related to spiritual development?
Plymothian 
There is a tremendous tension for me in engaging the various media that is ever-available to me in our culture. The biggest danger, I think, for me, is not that the media I consume will infect me with its worldviews (partially as a debt to your class, I am always very critical of what I’m consuming, though I tend to find ways to interpret things I like–particularly movies and songs–as tomes of Christian truth [= ), but in spending too much time in the media themselves, neglecting the Bible and the rest of life.Dearest Father,This semester has been terrible for me by way of laziness. Too many times, I would rather watch TV or movies online rather than engage You in Your word or You in my studies. Too many times, I blindly consumed, not thinking of You at all. Forgive me, Lord. Transform me. Make me a good steward of one of Your greatest gifts: time, that I may mature into the world-transforming agent of new creation I am destined to be.In the powerful, resurrected Name of Jesus,AMEN