Immovable: Help for Imperfect People (Ps 15)
Read Psalm 15: A Psalm of David. 1 O LORD, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? 2 He who walks blamelessly and does…
Taming Lions: Help When Enemies Slander and Accuse (Psalm 7)
Read Psalm 7: A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the LORD concerning the words of Cush, a Benjaminite. 1 O LORD my God, in you do I take…
No Fooling Around: Help for the Believer Burdened by Evil (Psalm 14)
Read Psalm 14: To the choirmaster. Of David. 1 The fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who…
The Power of Confession: Help for the Spiritually Depressed (Psalm 6)
Read Psalm 6: To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David. 1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in…
Light for the Eyes: Help For the Despairing (Psalm 13)
Read Psalm 13: To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1 How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2…
My King and My God: Help When You Fear the Wicked (Psalm 5)
Read Psalm 5: Psalm 5 is divided into five stanzas (called strophes in Hebrew poetry). In strophes 1, 3, and 5, the psalmist looks toward heaven and casts his eyes…
A Bedtime Prayer: Help When Anxiety Keeps You Awake (Psalm 4)
Her eyes rolled back to the top of her head as she lost consciousness. Just moments before, Madelyn had been crying in my wife’s arms, but now my baby girl…
Counsel from Lamentations
Overview: The book of Lamentations reveals the devastating consequences of God’s anger against his people’s sin (2 Kgs 25; 2 Chr 36; Jer 37-39, 52). Yet hope centers on the…
A Morning Prayer: Help For Those Afraid of Shame (Psalm 3)
Read Psalm 3 A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son. 1 O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me; 2 many are…
When the Nations Rage: Help to Choose the Right King (Psalm 2)
Read Psalm 2 1 Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against…