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Psalm 30
Epiphany 6B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider Psalm 30’s superscription claims it’s a song for the dedication of the temple. Yet its modern relevance seems greater than that. After all, it appears to be a song of thanksgiving to God for deliverance from a perilous situation. It doesn’t require much imagination to deduce that God has…
Psalm 147:1-11, 20c
Epiphany 5B
Notes and Observations Psalm 147 is one of the psalter’s five last psalms, each of which begins and ends with a “Hallelu Yah!” It’s hard to imagine a more appropriate way to close God’s people’s hymnbook. In fact, this psalm even basically begins by asserting the fittingness of praise to God. It is, insists the…
Psalm 111
Epiphany 4B
You don’t have to read many sermons to notice that at least some pastors are vulnerable to a kind of moralism that focuses on the “do’s” and “do not’s” of the Christian faith. We sometimes want to leap right to what God wants people to do before contemplating who that God is and what God…
Psalm 62:5-12
Epiphany 3B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The author of Psalm 62 is clearly under some kind of duress whose cause he hints at, but doesn’t specifically identify. That lack of specificity makes this psalm’s sentiment something to which anyone under some kind of duress can relate. Whether what harasses us is individual, communal or even…
Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18
Epiphany 2B
Comments, Observations, and Questions to Consider The poet begins by professing, O Lord, you have searched me and you know me. In doing so she recognizes that God knows human beings perfectly. So the Lord doesn’t just know when people get up and when they sit down. God even knows our most secret thoughts. The…
The God-Forsaken God
Meditation for Holy Week on Psalm 22 by Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. at the Calvin College Chapel on April 11, 2006. Used by permission of the Calvin College Chapel.
Symposium 2012: Psalm 103
This sermon was preached in the closing worship service of the Calvin Symposium on Worship on Saturday, January 28, 2012.
Symposium 2012: Psalm 1
Preached at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Symposium, January 26, 2012
Symposium 2012: Psalm 13, How Long
Preached on Friday, January 27, at the 2012 Symposium on Worship.
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