Psalms
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 of the whole book, “Let...
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 to his people and...
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 give them opportunity to rehearse it, or...
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. Specifically in verses 5-6 David...
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. In it the psalmist...
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 straight out of his life....
June 27 – Psalm 46
“There is no more proper response to really seeing God as he is—transcendent beyond all imagination—than to be still and adore.” - Tim and Kathy Keller, The Songs of Jesus Psalm 46 is, in part, about Zion, the “city of God” mentioned in verse 4. Once the Temple of...
June 20 – Psalm 98
This week begins our new series in the Book of Psalms, and this specific psalm will help us begin at the end. If you read through all 150 psalms you’ll see every conceivable human emotion represented somewhere, from exquisite emotional highs to anguishing lows, and...