Category Archives: Psalms

A Song Within A Song (A 2015 Rerun)

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Pete

Reading Psalm 18 this morning and find myself pausing over something that doesn’t quite sit right. Not sure what to do with it. So, I went back and looked on previous meals served up with Psalm 18 ingredients and found … Continue reading →

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Easy To Get Used To

Posted on January 2, 2023 by Pete

Continuing to venture into my reading plan with a new translation this year. And this morning the CSB puts before me another change that I’ll need to get used to. But I enter Your houseby the abundance of Your faithful … Continue reading →

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Happy

Posted on December 28, 2022 by Pete

Okay . . . like I said yesterday, I’m reading this year in a different version of the bible than I have for the past several years . . . and here’s the first CSB-ness that I’m gonna have to … Continue reading →

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Father

Posted on July 14, 2022 by Pete

This morning was one of those mornings when two of my four readings connected. Not an obvious connection, but a little bit of chewing on the songwriter’s plea illuminated something of what the good doctor penned. Psalm 142 is a … Continue reading →

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Forgiveness and Fear

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Pete

If we were playing a game of word association, I’m not sure they’d be the two words most quickly, or even most likely to be put together. No one would be surprised if you heard “black” in response to “white.” … Continue reading →

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My Surety

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Pete

Wasn’t expecting it. Don’t think I’ve ever noticed it. But there it was. In the last verse of the longest song in the Psalms. When I read it, I wasn’t sure what to do with it at first as it … Continue reading →

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Give Me Life

Posted on June 16, 2022 by Pete

The plea has been scattered 6 times thus far throughout Psalm 119. But in the eight verses I’m hovering over this morning it is repeated three times. Chewing on the songwriters concentrated request to “give me life.” Plead my cause … Continue reading →

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A Tangible Lifeline

Posted on June 15, 2022 by Pete

This morning, I’m hovering over the nineteenth of twenty-two stanzas of the Scripture’s greatest love song, Psalm 119. The songwriter needed the LORD to save him (v. 146a). Don’t know who he needed to be saved from, but “they” were … Continue reading →

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The One Unfailing Constant

Posted on May 25, 2022 by Pete

Two despondent soul conditions. Seven urgent asks. One unfailing constant. That’s what I’m hovering over this morning as I chew on Psalm 119:25-32. Love the way Peterson gets to the heart of the songwriter’s desperate soul condition. I’m feeling terrible—I … Continue reading →

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Worship Work

Posted on April 29, 2022 by Pete

So, who is serving who in a “church service?” Is God serving His people when they gather, or are His people to be serving God when they gather? Certainly, in our consumerist culture we are most naturally wired to thinking … Continue reading →

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