Enemies Personal and National: Praying the Hardest Psalms with Jesus - Steffen Jenkins

How should Christians approach imprecatory psalms? For many readers today, these psalms that call down evil against enemies come off as self-righteous and obsessed with vengeance and hatred toward others. How do they fit with Jesus' teaching to love our enemies and His instructions to announce the blessing of the Gospel to all through repentance and faith? In this talk, we examine some of the most difficult psalms, concerning personal enemies and nations that attack God’s people.

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Steffen Jenkins is half German, half Welsh, was born in Spain but again in England. He has served in seminaries in Cuba as a lecturer, and as a pastor in an evangelical Presbyterian church. He greatly enjoyed a partnership with Tyndale House, Cambridge, to train up self-replicating Cuban lecturers in Greek and Hebrew. He trains seminarians in Greek and Old Testament at Union School of Theology.
He is the author of
- Imprecations in the Psalms: Love for Enemies in Hard Places;
- a Greek textbook for pastors who have forgotten their Greek or who want to start from scratch (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press);
- Scripture is Inspired (forthcoming in the Essentials series with Union Publishing)
- He is working on a theological commentary on Leviticus.
He is no good at sports (whether playing, watching or discussing).

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