We’ve learned a lot about the psalms in the last twelve weeks and I’ve enjoyed this series. However, while there are 150 psalms total in the psalter, and combined they express the full range of the human experience—sorrow, despair, hope, love and joy—the psalms we’ve been focusing on in this series have been those thatContinueContinue reading “Psalm 148 — Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany”
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Psalm 107 — Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
PSALM 107:1-32 & 43 (Color-Coded)Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he has redeemed from trouble3 and gathered in from the lands, from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south. 4 Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;5 hungry and thirsty, their soul faintedContinueContinue reading “Psalm 107 — Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany”
Psalm 19: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
Psalm 19 – A Psalm for Epiphany “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims His handiwork.” – Psalm 19 What a perfect psalm to read on this day that the church celebrates the Epiphany of our Lord. Epiphany is a fancy Greek word that literally means “a sudden shining of light”ContinueContinue reading “Psalm 19: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany”
Psalm 121: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
Psalm 121 is referred to as a “Song of Ascents”. Some fifteen psalms bear this title. These psalms are traditionally connected with the time period of Israel’s Babylonian exile. Much like the Hallelujah Psalms that we talked about last time, except the Songs of Ascents are not songs of praise so much as they are expressionsContinueContinue reading “Psalm 121: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany”
Psalm 147: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany
Psalm 147 was composed at a very bittersweet moment in ancient Israel’s history. The holy city, Jerusalem, had been destroyed. God’s people had been in exile for seventy years in Babylon—taken out of their ancestral homeland and more than a generation passes while living in that foreign land. Grandparents weep at the fact that theirContinueContinue reading “Psalm 147: Twelve Psalms for Advent, Christmas & Epiphany”
O Lord, open my lips... 