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Category: Psalms

May 30, 2023June 27, 2024

Psalm 46

Psalm 46 is a psalm that has to do not with personal crisis but when the world around seems to be in a state of utter collapse, when the oceans are surging, mountains falling into the sea, the earth caves, and when nations are at war.  What does faith look like then? This has always…

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May 22, 2023June 25, 2024

Psalm 19

To be human is to have the ability to choose our responses. In your grade school science classes you probably learned what distinguished living things, or organisms, from non-living things.  Why is it that we say a dandelion is alive but a cloud is not, or that coral is alive but a rock is not….

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April 13, 2023June 25, 2024

Psalm 29

One of the great things unique to the human experience is our ability to feel awe, to be overcome with wonder at the size or beauty or power of a thing.  We feel a certain awe at some of the things that mankind can produce: a ten-second, 100-meter sprint, or a Tchaikovsky piano concerto, or…

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March 25, 2023June 25, 2024

Psalm 8

One of the occasions in which children first learn to pray is around the dinner table, saying grace.  Often they learn a simple rote prayer, and one of the most common is, ‘God is great.  God is good.  Let us thank him for this food.’ God is great, and God is good. It is a…

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