Category Archives: Psalms

Lifter of My Head

It’s a song written when he was in dire straights. A lament penned at the bottom of the cycle. Minor key chords composed from a valley experience. A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. David is … Continue reading

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An Either / Or Thing

I don’t recall hearing them as often. Those pithy sayings from the pulpit. Those succinct and powerful statements of divine truth that penetrate and literally stick with you throughout a lifetime. Perhaps it’s because I don’t get around as much … Continue reading

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If Only On the Inside

This morning I’m re-working some thoughts from 2012 after reading Psalm 149 . . . I was saved into a pretty conservative, pretty low key, church system. While the praise was very heartfelt, it was also very bodily still. Voices were … Continue reading

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Time Gods

It’s a pretty good word picture when you pause to reflect on it. Even more, it’s a pretty formative piece of information if it’s true. And, as I think about it, there seems to be a clear choice to make. … Continue reading

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Seek Your Servant

You’d think that after 175 verses of extolling the Word of God . . . after 22 stanzas singing of the dynamics associated with the promises, precepts, and testimonies of the LORD . . . that after all that, there’d … Continue reading

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Where Are the Tears?

Ok . . . so this makes me really uncomfortable. The Word of God can do that to you. Honestly, I prefer things jumping off the page that I think I understand . . . or think I have a … Continue reading

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Double Down

I guess I could blame it on . . . ‘er, I mean attribute it to the Holy Spirit. Or, perhaps I just need to concede my mind can work in strange ways. But this morning, reading in Psalm 119, … Continue reading

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Vain is the Salvation of Man

That David had great responsibility for ensuring an able-bodied army was ready to take on the enemies of God’s people is a given. That, as commander in chief, he needed to have a plan for taking down the city at … Continue reading

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He Remembers His Covenant Forever

It is a fuel for praise. It is a catalyst for giving thanks. To think on these things, is to be moved to sing to Him. To remember these things is to want to bless Him. To meditate on these … Continue reading

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A People Yet To Be Created

It is a “prayer of one afflicted, when he is faint and pours out his complaint before the LORD.” So reads the subtitle of Psalm 102. “Hear my prayer, O Lord; let my cry come to you!” begins the songwriter. … Continue reading

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