Psalm Choir – Psalm 90: “God Our Help and Hope”
For our music meditation today we post this video produced by Josh Hoekstra of the PR Psalm Choir singing a versification of Psalm 90 from the Psalter. This number (247) is titled “God Our Help and...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 100
For our first Sunday of the new year we return to our devotions on the Psalms (see Nov.2012 for the last devotions on the Psalms), considering Psalm 100, one of the most simple and well-known psalms...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 102
On this third Lord’s day of 2013 we turn to Psalm 102 for our worship readiness. At first glance this Word of God may not seem to be very fitting or inspiring for worship. The title to it says “A...
View ArticleAn Android Psalter App & A Great Psalmody Site!
Psalter – Android Apps on Google Play. For those of you with a love of the Psalms and of the United Presbyterian Psalter (1912) and with an Android device, I want to make you aware of a Psalter app...
View ArticleFeatured Recording: Happy Birthday, Psalter!
Reblogged from URC Psalmody: While we concern ourselves primarily with the Psalter Hymnal here on URC Psalmody, we owe a huge portion of our psalm-singing repertoire not to the Christian Reformed...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 104
The Word of God in the book of Psalms which we consider today is found in the 104th Psalm, which the heading describes as “a meditation upon the majesty and providence of God”. And a simple reading of...
View ArticleA Smorgasbord of Heidelberg Catechism Items! – 450th Anniversary Series(9)
As we continue our year-long series commemorating the 450th anniversary of the Heidelberg Catechism (1563-2013), our post today is going to be a smorgasbord of items. In the last week some other things...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 108
To help us form a foundation for our worship in our heavenly Father’s house today, we consider Psalm 108, “a song or psalm of David”, the man after God’s own heart. Let’s begin by reading and...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 109
To assist us in our preparing for worship of our sovereign Savior and Lord today, we come to Psalm 109, another prayer-song of David. This is another of the “imprecatory” Psalms, in which the psalmist...
View ArticleLord's Day 15: He Shouldered the Curse
Reblogged from URC Psalmody: When we recite the Apostles’ Creed, it’s all too easy to rattle off each clause without devoting our full attention to the words. “Suffered under Pontius Pilate; was...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 112
Today once again we are called by the Lord of our salvation and according to the principles of grace and freedom in Christ (the law of the 4th commandment) to worship our Triune God and Father. As we...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 113
On this new Lord’s Day, to assist us in preparing spiritually for worship of our Triune God in Jesus Christ, we turn to Psalm 113, the next psalm in our series. This psalm is part of that collection of...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 116
For our worship preparation on this new Lord’s Day we consider our next psalm in the OT Psalter, Psalm 116, which also happens to be a personal favorite (See the Psalter versification below too.). The...
View ArticleWhy We Sing Old Testament Psalms
Why We Sing Old Testament Psalms. As we end the week and anticipate our day of rest and worship tomorrow, it is good to think about aspects of our worship. As I reviewed the selected news items on “The...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation – Psalm 118
As we enter this month of June and enjoy our first Lord’s Day in it, we turn to Psalm 118 for help and guidance in preparing to worship the one, true and living God, the Triune Father of our Lord Jesus...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 119a (Aleph)
Today for our Sunday worship preparation devotional, we begin a series on Psalm 119, the longest and most unique psalm in the OT Psalter. While we do not know specifically who wrote this psalm (many...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 119b (Beth)
Last week for our Sunday devotionals we began to treat Psalm 119 section by section, pointing out that this unique psalm is a twenty-two (22) stanza acrostic, each stanza and line (eight in each...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 119d (Daleth)
For our preparation for worship of the Triune God this Lord’s Day we consider the next section of Psalm 119 (verses 25-32), the eight verses of which begin with the Hebrew letter “daleth” (comparable...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 119e (He)
For our first Sunday in July we move on to the next (fifth) section of Psalm 119, all the lines of which begin with the Hebrew consonant “He” (comparable to our “H” sound) [Psalm 119 is an acrostic...
View ArticleSunday Worship Preparation: Psalm 119f (Vau)
As we once again anticipate and prepare for worship in the Lord’s house today, we consider the next section of Psalm 119, marked by the heading “Vau” for the Hebrew letter which begins each line in...
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