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Psalm Chapter 148

Season 7 Episode 144

Psalm 148: The Roll Call of Everything

This psalm reads like a conductor tapping his baton on the podium and then pointing, one by one, at every secti…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 147

Season 7 Episode 143

Psalm 147: The God Who Counts Stars and Binds Wounds

The most astonishing line in this psalm is also the most easily missed. "He telleth the number of…

3 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 146

Season 7 Episode 142

Psalm 146: The Psalm That Tells You Where to Put Your Weight

There is a bluntness to this psalm that cuts through centuries of polite religion. "Put n…

3 weeks, 1 day ago

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Psalm Chapter 145

Season 7 Episode 141

Psalm 145: David's Last Praise

This is the only psalm the tradition labels simply "David's Psalm of praise" — as if all the others were merely working…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 144

Season 7 Episode 140

Psalm 144: From Thunder to Harvest

This psalm begins with a warrior and ends with a farmer, and the distance between them is the whole of human longin…

3 weeks, 3 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 143

Season 7 Episode 139

Psalm 143: The Soul That Thirsts Like Dry Ground

There is a moment in this psalm where theology gives way to pure physical longing: "I stretch forth m…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 142

Season 7 Episode 138

Psalm 142: The Prayer from the Cave

David is in a cave — literally, if the superscription is to be believed — and the psalm reads like it. There is no…

3 weeks, 5 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 141

Season 7 Episode 137

Psalm 141: The Prayer That Guards the Mouth

Most prayers ask God to change our circumstances. This one asks God to change us. "Set a watch, O Lord, be…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Psalm Chapter 140

Season 7 Episode 136

Psalm 140: The Serpent's Tongue and the Shelter of God

David knew a particular kind of enemy — not the one who charges at you with a sword, but the on…

4 weeks ago

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Psalm Chapter 139

Season 7 Episode 135

Psalm 139: The Inescapable Attention

Most of us, if we are honest, live with a quiet dread of being fully known. We curate, we edit, we present the ve…

4 weeks, 1 day ago

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