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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 month, 4 weeks 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…

2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago

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Psalm Chapter 5

Season 7 Episode 5

Psalm 5: The Morning Voice

If Psalm 4 is an evening prayer, Psalm 5 is its dawn counterpart — the first words of a soul that has learned where to turn…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Psalm Chapter 4

Season 7 Episode 4

Psalm 4: The Gladness That Outweighs the Harvest

This is an evening psalm — you can feel the day winding down in it, the noise of the world finally qu…

2 months, 1 week ago

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