Podcast Episodes

Psalm Chapter 8

Season 8 Episode 8

Psalm 8: A Little Lower Than the Angels

The movement of this psalm is dizzying. It begins with the heavens — that vast, unthinkable expanse of glory —…

1 week, 3 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 7

Season 8 Episode 7

Psalm 7: The Pit the Digger Falls Into

David makes here a breathtaking wager. If he is guilty — if there is iniquity in his hands, if he has repaid ev…

1 week, 4 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 6

Season 8 Episode 6

Psalm 6: The Bed That Swam with Tears

Here is a man who has run out of everything — strength, patience, even the ability to see clearly, for his eye i…

1 week, 5 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 5

Season 8 Episode 5

Psalm 5: The Morning Voice

Notice where the psalmist begins his day. Not with a list, not with the news, not even with his troubles — though his troub…

1 week, 6 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 4

Season 8 Episode 4

Psalm 4: The Gladness That Outlasts the Harvest

There is a moment in this psalm that slips by so quickly one can easily miss its strangeness. The worl…

2 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 3

Season 8 Episode 3

Psalm 3: Sleep as an Act of Faith

This is a psalm written while on the run — David, we are told, fleeing from his own son, surrounded by voices whispe…

2 weeks, 1 day ago

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Psalm Chapter 2

Season 8 Episode 2

Psalm 2: The Laughter in Heaven

There is a sound in this psalm that we rarely let ourselves hear: the laughter of God. The nations rage, the kings tak…

2 weeks, 2 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 1

Season 8 Episode 1

Psalm 1: The Tree and the Chaff

The Psalter opens not with a prayer or a hymn but with a choice — and, more quietly, with a picture. Here is a man, th…

2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 150

Season 7 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, …

2 weeks, 4 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 149

Season 7 Episode 145

Psalm 149: The New Song and the Two-Edged Sword

This is the psalm that makes comfortable readers uncomfortable, and it should. It begins in pure delig…

2 weeks, 5 days ago

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