Psalm 141 is a prayer of reflection as well as a petition for the day ahead. It’s a beautiful challenge for you and I as we interact with this broken world. But it’s also a beautiful hope in that the strength we need is given to us already. Continue reading Psalm 141: A Psalm of Prayerful Reflection and Petition
Psalm 108 is a “puzzle” psalm as it takes voice from other psalms…and it’s “puzzle” is a truth and comfort for those of us who find that we constantly pray the same words. Continue reading Psalm 108: A Psalm of Victory
Lamentations 5 brings to us what many people have wanted: a prayer. And in this prayer their hope is that God will turn around and see them, hear them, and remember them. It’s a hail-marry prayer by someone who feels that not only is God walking away but that he has rejected them. Continue reading Lamentations 5: A Last-Ditch Prayer
Today’s podcast comes to us from Paul’s letter to the church in Rome. It’s a letter that calls the believers to live as “kingdom of heaven” dwellers and not “society dwellers.” Continue reading Rom 12:9-21 The Act of Loving
David’s prayer to God seems chaotic and random and yet it is in that randomness that we see just how in need he is of God and how trusting he is of the one who can put it all back together. Continue reading Psalm 86: A Fervent Prayer to God
Prayer and needs look vastly different for all people and yet throughout time prayer to God has always looked the same and proclaimed the same thing: ONLY God restores and fixes. Continue reading Psalm 79: A Psalm for Help
I stink at this journey. OK, sorry – I’m getting ahead of myself. Do me a favor and please read Psalm 54. We read in 1 Sam 23:14-29 that David was hiding out in fear of his life from Saul and his army who were trying to kill him and that in this place he was hiding at were men who turned out to be … Continue reading Psalm 54: A Journey of Praise
