Podcast Episodes

Psalm Chapter 19

Season 8 Episode 19

Psalm 19: The Sun, the Bridegroom, the Runner

There is no psalm quite like this one, and the reason is that its poet cannot seem to sit still. He begi…

6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 18

Season 8 Episode 18

Psalm 18: The Large Place

This is the longest psalm so far, and for good reason — it is a song composed after a great rescue, and when you have been r…

1 day, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 17

Season 8 Episode 17

Psalm 17: Keep Me as the Apple of the Eye

Of all the tender names by which the Psalter asks to be held, this one is the tenderest. "Keep me as the app…

2 days, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 16

Season 8 Episode 16

Psalm 16: The Lines in Pleasant Places

There is a word in this psalm that most of us have stopped noticing because it belongs to a vanished world. "Th…

3 days, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 15

Season 8 Episode 15

Psalm 15: The Character of the Guest

The psalm opens with the most piercing of all social questions: who gets in? "Lord, who shall abide in thy tabern…

4 days, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 14

Season 8 Episode 14

Psalm 14: The Fool and the God Who Looks Down

The fool has said in his heart — notice, in his heart, not aloud — "There is no God." It is a private ve…

5 days, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 13

Season 8 Episode 13

Psalm 13: The Fourfold How Long

Four times in two verses the question hammers: how long? How long wilt thou forget me — for ever? How long wilt thou h…

6 days, 6 hours ago

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Psalm Chapter 12

Season 8 Episode 12

Psalm 12: Silver Tried Seven Times

We live in an age of words — more words, perhaps, than any generation before us has had to endure. And most of them…

1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 11

Season 8 Episode 11

Psalm 11: The Refuge That Does Not Run

Everyone around David is giving sensible advice: flee, run, the arrows are nocked and the wicked have their bow…

1 week, 1 day ago

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Psalm Chapter 10

Season 8 Episode 10

Psalm 10: The God Who Sees the Hidden Things

This psalm reads like a detective's report on the anatomy of wickedness. The wicked man lurks in secret p…

1 week, 2 days ago

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