Coffee & Devotions

Psalms 129

Psalm 129

Israel had often been cruelly afflicted, yet the righteous Lord cut the wicked's cords and did not leave his people in bondage. The wicked may spring ...

Psalms 128

Psalm 128

Blessing belongs to everyone who fears the Lord and walks in his ways. Honest labor, family, children, grandchildren, worship, and peace are gifts fro...

Psalms 127

Psalm 127

Building, guarding, and laboring are vain apart from the Lord, who continues caring for his people while they sleep. Children are the Lord's blessing ...

Psalms 126

Psalm 126

Israel rejoiced when the Lord brought his people home from captivity to the promised land. That deliverance points to the deeper joy believers have be...

Psalms 125

Psalm 125

Those who trust in the Lord are secure because he surrounds and preserves his people. Mount Zion points beyond a physical mountain to the spiritual re...

Psalms 124

Psalm 124

Israel sings that without the Lord on its side, attacking enemies would have swallowed the people like overwhelming floodwaters or captured prey. Inst...

Psalms 123

Psalm 123

The pilgrim lifts his eyes to the Lord enthroned in heaven and waits for mercy like servants attentively watching their master's hand. Filled with the...

Psalms 122

Psalm 122

David rejoices to go to the Lord's house in Jerusalem, where Israel's tribes gathered for worship, thanksgiving, judgment, unity, and peace. Under the...

Psalms 121

Psalm 121

The pilgrim looks beyond the hills to the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth, as the only source of help. God never slumbers or changes, remains constant...

Psalms 120

Psalm 120

The first Song of Ascents is a lament from someone far from Jerusalem and surrounded by lying, deceitful, warlike people. In distress the pilgrim call...

Psalms 119

Seek your servant

Psalm 119 delights in God's eternal, righteous, merciful, life-giving Word through affliction, persecution, temptation, and night watches. The psalmis...

Psalms 119:1–40

Psalm 119

This first installment reads Psalm 119:1-40, the Aleph through He sections. The psalmist longs to walk in God's law, hide the Word in his heart, see i...

Psalms 118

Psalm 118

Psalm 118 repeatedly celebrates the Lord's enduring mercy and teaches that trusting him is better than trusting rulers. God gives strength and salvati...

Psalms 117

Psalm 117

The shortest psalm calls every nation and people (not only Israel) to praise the Lord. His covenant lovingkindness is great toward his people, and his...

Psalms 116

Psalm 116

After being surrounded by death, trouble, and sorrow, the psalmist calls on the gracious and merciful Lord, who hears, saves, delivers, and returns hi...

Psalms 115

Psalm 115

Psalm 115 lowers human pride and gives glory to God's mercy and truth. Lifeless idols cannot see, hear, speak, or act, and their worshipers become lik...

Psalms 114

Tremble - Reverence - Fear

Psalm 114 poetically calls the Red Sea, Jordan, Sinai, and the hills to remember the exodus. The sea fled, the river stopped, and the mountain shook b...

Psalms 114

Psalm 114

This historical psalm remembers the exodus, the Red Sea and Jordan dividing, Sinai trembling, and God dwelling among his people and bringing water fro...

Psalms 113

Psalm 113

Psalm 113 is framed from beginning to end by the command to praise the Lord. Bryan and his children explain that no one is as great as the Creator, ye...

Psalms 112

Psalm 112

Psalm 112 portrays the blessed righteous man who fears the Lord, delights in his commands, acts graciously, cares for the poor, trusts steadfastly, an...

Psalms 111

Psalm 111

Psalms 110

Our Priest and King

David prophetically speaks of someone greater than himself: the Messiah seated at God's right hand, ruling amid enemies and judging the nations. Jesus...

Psalms 110

Psalm 110

Psalm 110 foretells the Messiah whom Jesus identifies as himself: the enthroned Lord who rules the nations and serves forever as both King and priest ...

Psalms 108:1–109:31

Psalm 108-109

The transcript genuinely covers both Psalms 108 and 109. Psalm 108 praises God's worldwide mercy and truth and looks to him for victory because human ...