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We Wait, We Hope, We Stay, Psalm 147:1-11,20c “God heals the brokenhearted, and binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147 Today’s Psalm comes late in the Book and offers a glimpse of a time when the exiled outcasts are gathering back together and seeing their world built back up. We too, yearn for a re-gathering […]

“The works of God’s hands are faithful and just.” – Psalm 111 One mode of poetry in the Psalms is all-out praise and thanksgiving, such as the one for today. We also find praise even in Psalms of lament and complaint because “God is good all the time and all the time God is good!” […]

Where Can I Go?, Psalm 139:1-18“You have searched me and know me.” – Psalm 139 This week’s Psalm text brings home this message: we are in an intimate relationship with God.There is nowhere we go that God is not present–no state of our being that results in our beingabandoned. God has knit us together, has […]

Awe and Wonder, Psalm 29 “My God gives strength to the people and blesses the people with peace.” – Psalm 29 Strength and peace is the prayer of the Psalm this week. The Psalmist says “let me count the ways” that we can know the strength of the Holy One. With awe and wonder we […]

An Inoculation of Hope – Isaiah 2:4 and Romans 12:2The scriptures refer to a transformation of something hurtful into something of healing. This Sunday Michael Stern will draw parallels between this and his experience as a vaccine researcher. Michael Stern is a singer/songwriter who some of you will remember since he has shared our pulpit […]

These Lives Are Precious, Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14 “God delivers the needy when they call.” – Psalm 72 We do not live in a land ruled by Kings, as the hearers of our first Psalm of this series did. Nevertheless, the petitions of the psalmist for justice, deliverance, defense of the poor and oppressed, and peace […]