Podcast Episodes

Psalm Chapter 9

Season 7 Episode 9

Psalm 9: The Refuge That Remembers

Praise, in this psalm, is not a vague feeling of warmth toward the divine. It is specific, particular, rooted in th…

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Psalm Chapter 8

Season 7 Episode 8

Psalm 8: The Smallness That Was Crowned

This psalm begins and ends with the same line — how excellent is thy name in all the earth — like a great gold…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 7

Season 7 Episode 7

Psalm 7: The Man Who Dared God to Search Him

There is a particular kind of courage that shows itself not in fighting but in flinging open every door a…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 6

Season 7 Episode 6

Psalm 6: The Bed That Became an Altar

Here is the first of the penitential psalms, and it is raw in a way that polite religion rarely permits. David d…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 5

Season 7 Episode 5

Psalm 5: The Morning Voice

If Psalm 4 is an evening prayer, Psalm 5 is its dawn counterpart — the first words of a soul that has learned where to turn…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 4

Season 7 Episode 4

Psalm 4: The Gladness That Outweighs the Harvest

This is an evening psalm — you can feel the day winding down in it, the noise of the world finally qu…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 3

Season 7 Episode 3

Psalm 3: The Man Who Slept Through the Siege

David is running for his life. His own son Absalom has turned the kingdom against him, and the whispers h…

5 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 2

Season 7 Episode 2

Psalm 2: The Laughter of Heaven

There is something almost comic in the opening scene of this psalm — the nations raging, the kings huddling together i…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 1

Season 7 Episode 1

Psalm 1: The Tree and the Chaff

The Psalter opens not with a prayer but with a picture — and what a picture it is. A tree, planted (not wild, not acci…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 150

Season 6 Episode 146

Psalm 150: The Last Word Is Praise

And so the Psalter ends as it must — not with a question, not with a plea, not even with a lesson, but with sheer, …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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