Download audio Download sermon Psalm 119:161-168 Tonight we conclude our consideration of what is often referred to simply as “the long psalm.” We’ve said that it was a psalm meant to be memorized, internalized as an instrument of spiritual enculturation. We said that it was a lament, a fact that alters our understanding of the […]
Download audio Download sermon Psalm 119:97-104 We introduced our sermons on Psalm 119 by considering its literary character, an acrostic poem the structure of which serves as an aid to memorization, and its function, along with the other psalms, as an instrument of enculturation, the fashioning of mind and heart by the deep impression of […]
Download audio Download sermon Psalm 119:49-56 We are reading the short zayin section. All the verses in this section, as you remember, that is from verse 49 to verse 56, begin with the Hebrew letter zayin, something like our “z”, though it comes much earlier in the alphabet. Let me begin by telling you two […]
Download Sermon Psalm 119:9-16 Last time we noticed some of the interesting features of this long psalm. For example, it is an acrostic poem with each verse of each succeeding eight verse section of the poem beginning with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Such a device served to aid the memorization of the […]
Download audio Download sermon Psalm 119:1-8 We are going to read just the first eight verses of the psalm, not because I intend to pay particular attention to those verses, but just to have some of the psalm ringing in our ears as we begin. […]