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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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