Psalms

Covers Psalm 1

A meditation on Psalm 1's image of the tree planted by streams of water — how meditating on God's Word sinks our roots into a foundation that cannot be shaken, however hard the storms of life may blow.

Covers Psalms 1-2

Joe's Bible Translation — Psalms.

Covers Psalms 10-12

What God actually prioritizes — Psalms 10-12 show his concern is justice and compassion for the vulnerable, not a checklist of pet sins, pushing back on a moralism that majors on the wrong things and misreads him as waiting for us to fail.

Covers Psalm 19

David prays in Psalm 19 to be kept innocent of great transgressions, yet later falls with Bathsheba — a double lesson that even a heart given to God can wander, and that David's repentance, unlike Saul's excuses, preserved his usefulness to the Lord.

Covers Psalms 52-54

Why God may have left David fleeing Saul for years before the throne — how competence can quietly kill our reliance on the Lord, and how those wilderness years trained David to lead while still depending on God rather than his own ability.

Covers Psalm 62

Psalm 62's opening line prompts an honest reckoning with whether the soul ever truly waits for God in silence — and a recommitment to setting aside distraction-free, undistracted time to sit quietly before the Lord.

Covers Psalm 67

How Psalm 67's hope for all nations to praise God reframes the popular Christian expectation of escaping to heaven — the biblical hope being resurrection and God's reign on a restored earth, realized when he intervenes to judge and renew creation.

Covers Psalm 82

Psalm 82's divine council read against Deuteronomy 32 and Babel — the gods of the nations as real spiritual beings God allotted over the nations, who rebelled into injustice and now face judgment as their peoples revert to Yahweh's rule in Christ.

Covers Matthew 4 · Mark 1 · Luke 4 · Genesis 3 · Genesis 8 · Ecclesiastes 7 · Genesis 2 · Galatians 6 · Psalm 104 · John 1 · Philippians 2 · Hebrews 2 · Hebrews 5

Following his baptism, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan for forty days. This account, with varying degrees of…

Covers Psalm 104

Read alongside God's answer to Job, Psalm 104 confronts the self-centered assumption that everything happening around us must be reward or punishment for our behavior — a reminder that creation is vast and humanity, though valued, is only one small part of it.

Covers Psalm 110

Wondering whether Israel would have fared better had the priesthood never been split from the throne — a division born of Moses' reluctance, and one that Psalm 110's priest-king Messiah after the order of Melchizedek ultimately undoes.