by Eric Spivey | Jul 29, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
August 8 – Psalm 145 In Week 1 of our study we noted how the psalms slowly progress from more laments towards the beginning of the book to more praises towards the end. The last five psalms are successive peaks of worship, culminating in the emphatic last verse...
by Eric Spivey | Jul 21, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
August 1 – Psalm 147 Psalm 147 is all about praise; it even mentions the delightfulness of praise itself in the first verse. It’s three stanzas, v.1-6, v.7-11, and v.12-20, all start with a command to praise or sing to the Lord. Verses 1-6 praise God for tending...
by Eric Spivey | Jul 7, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 25 – Psalm 130 In our psalms devotional we’re encouraging folks to try memorizing Psalm 130; it’s short enough that they could have it memorized by the end of the week. If folks in your group have been giving memorization a shot, feel free to...
by Eric Spivey | Jun 30, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 18 – Psalm 16 Here we have another psalm by David, and in it David entrusts himself to God, confessing that he has no good whatsoever apart from him. That sort of absolute statement is a stirring and clarifying call to worship God and nothing else....
by Eric Spivey | Jun 30, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 11 – Psalm 42 At different times Psalms 42 and 43 have been read as one psalm or as two; 42:5, 42:11, and 43:5 are all the same refrain, so it was perhaps one long song. However, we’ll keep to the division as it stands and just look at Psalm 42 this week....
by Eric Spivey | Jun 24, 2021 | Psalms: Summer 2021
July 4 – Psalm 13 David had a pretty prolific musical career for a king, considering he wrote about half of the psalms in the Bible. Read the story of David’s life in 1-2 Samuel and you’ll see that the sorts of ups and downs portrayed in his psalms were taken...
