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Daily devotionalAugust 31 – Trust the psalms of God
I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. – Psalm 52:8B Scripture reading: Psalm 52 We started with Psalm 1 and the…
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Daily devotionalAugust 30 – Worship of the fruitful tree
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. I will…
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Daily devotionalAugust 29 – Sing the truth in love
See the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches and sought refuge in his own destruction!…
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Daily devotionalAugust 28 – Singing about the destruction of the wicked
But God will break you down forever; he will snatch and tear you from your tent; he will uproot you from the land of the…
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Daily devotionalAugust 27 – Evil men and the love of God
You love evil more than good… – Psalm 52:3 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1-4 Are you ever surprised by evil? In my earlier life counseling teenaged…
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Daily devotionalAugust 26 – Evil men and the love of God
Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The steadfast love of God endures all the day. – Psalm 52:1 Scripture reading: Psalm 52:1 How…
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Daily devotionalAugust 25 – Singing the truth about God
The righteous shall see and fear – Psalm 52:6 Scripture reading: Psalm 52 Have you walked through a forest after a strong wind has blown?…
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Daily devotionalAugust 24 – Singing about our restoration to worship
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. – Psalm 51:8 Scripture reading: Psalm 51 What if God did not…
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Daily devotionalAugust 23 – Singing to bless the Church daily
May it please you to prosper Zion, to build up the walls of Jerusalem. – Psalm 51:18 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:18-19 Do you think that…
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Daily devotionalAugust 22 – Singing to declare God’s praise
My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise. – Psalm 51:17 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:16-17 We…
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Daily devotionalAugust 21 – Singing to declare God’s praise
Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise – Psalm 51:15 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:13-15 David leads the church in repentance. Knowing…
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Daily devotionalAugust 20 – Sing for restoration
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me – Psalm 51:10 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:10-12 How can I…
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Daily devotionalAugust 19 – Cleanse me with hyssop
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow – Psalm 51:7 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:7-9…
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Daily devotionalAugust 18 – Singing a confession about ourselves
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. – Psalm 51:3 Scripture reading: Psalm 51:3-6 It is perhaps the most challenging…
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Daily devotionalAugust 17 – A song begging for mercy
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. – Psalm 51:1 Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalAugust 16 – A personal lament for sin
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so that you are right in your verdict and justified…
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Daily devotionalAugust 15 – Singing of the covenant blessings and curses
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!” – Psalm…
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Daily devotionalAugust 14 – Singing of the covenant faithfulness of the Lord
Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver. – Psalm 50:22 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:22-23…
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Daily devotionalAugust 13 – Singing to love God and our neighbor
These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay…
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Daily devotionalAugust 12 – Singing about the judgement of God
But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes or take my covenant on your lips?” – Psalm 50:16 Scripture…
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Daily devotionalAugust 11 – Singing to call others repentance
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I…
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Daily devotionalAugust 10 – Singing to call the Church to respect the Lord
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine. – Psalm 50:12 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:12-13 The…
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Daily devotionalAugust 9 – Enter His gates with thanksgiving
I will not accept a bull from your house or goats from your folds. – Psalm 50:9 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:8-11 Yesterday we considered God….
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Daily devotionalAugust 8 – Singing the testimony of God
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God. – Psalm 50:7 Scripture reading: Psalm…
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Daily devotionalAugust 7 – Singing a call to worship
Gather to me my faithful ones, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice! – Psalm 50:5 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:5-6 Here is the Church…
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Daily devotionalAugust 6 – Singing our theology
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth – Psalm 50:2 Scripture reading: Psalm 50:1-4 The Psalms are not just songs to sing,…
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Daily devotionalAugust 5 – The Church sings of the Lord’s rights
The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting – Psalm 50:1: Scripture reading:…
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Daily devotionalAugust 4 – The Lord knows his people
…the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. – Psalm 1:6: Scripture reading: Psalm 1 Psalm 1…
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Daily devotionalAugust 3 – Curses for covenant breakers
The wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. – Psalm 1:5 Scripture reading: Psalm 1:4-6 The beatitude,…
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Daily devotionalAugust 2 – Blessings for covenant keepers
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all…
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Daily devotionalIntroduction to August’s study of Psalm 1 and 50-52
Paul calls both the Ephesians and Colossians to: “Address/admonish one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs making melody in your heart to the Lord,…