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Psalm Chapter 15

Season 7 Episode 15

Psalm 15: The Question at the Gate

David asks the most direct question a soul can ask: Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy…

1 week, 3 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 14

Season 7 Episode 14

Psalm 14: The Fool's Creed

The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Notice that he says it in his heart, not in his head. This is not the con…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 13

Season 7 Episode 13

Psalm 13: The Longest Question

Four times in two verses David asks the same question — how long? — and the repetition is not poetic ornamentation. It …

1 week, 5 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 12

Season 7 Episode 12

Psalm 12: The Words That Do Not Lie

We live in a world awash in words — flattering words, vain words, words spoken with a double heart. David sees thi…

1 week, 6 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 11

Season 7 Episode 11

Psalm 11: The Refuge That Does Not Run

Everyone around David is giving him sensible advice: flee. The wicked have bent their bows, the arrows are on t…

2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 10

Season 7 Episode 10

Psalm 10: The God Who Sees the Lurking Places

This is a psalm about the world as it so often appears — a place where the wicked prosper and the poor a…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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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…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

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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…

2 weeks, 3 days 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…

2 weeks, 4 days 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…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

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