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Psalm Chapter 117 and Psalm Chapter 118

Season 7 Episode 117

Psalms 117 and 118: The Shortest Song and the Cornerstone

The Psalter hides its most audacious claim inside its shortest song. Psalm 117 — just two ve…

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Psalm Chapter 116

Season 7 Episode 116

Psalm 116: The Love That Begins with a Reason

"I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications." There is something almost scanda…

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Psalm Chapter 115

Season 7 Episode 115

Psalm 115: The Gods That Cannot Breathe

The psalm begins with a prayer so startling in its selflessness that it stops you short: "Not unto us, O Lord,…

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Psalm Chapter 114

Season 7 Episode 114

Psalm 114: The Day the Mountains Danced

This may be the most purely delightful psalm in the entire Psalter — eight verses of sheer, grinning wonder at…

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Psalm Chapter 113

Season 7 Episode 113

Psalm 113: The God Who Stoops

The most extraordinary claim in this psalm is not that God is high above all nations — most religions will grant you tha…

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Psalm Chapter 112

Season 7 Episode 112

Psalm 112: The Man Who Is Not Afraid

Here is the companion piece to Psalm 111, and the pairing is deliberate. Psalm 111 ended with "the fear of the Lo…

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Psalm Chapter 111

Season 7 Episode 111

Psalm 111: The Works That Want to Be Remembered

This is a psalm of holy astonishment — someone who has looked carefully at what God has done and canno…

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Psalm Chapter 110 - A Psalm of David

Season 7 Episode 110

Psalm 110: The King Who Is Also a Priest

In just seven verses, this psalm manages to be one of the most quoted passages in the entire New Testament — …

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Psalm Chapter 109 - To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David

Season 7 Episode 109

Psalm 109: The Prayer We Are Afraid to Pray

This is one of the psalms that makes polite Christians nervous, and perhaps it should. David has been repa…

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Psalm Chapter 108 - A Psalm of David

Season 7 Episode 108

Psalm 108: The Heart That Wakes the Dawn

There is something almost reckless about the opening of this psalm — "O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing a…

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