The Big Idea from 30 Psalms

Here are the big ideas from 30 psalms from a preaching series in 2024, as our congregation read through the 150 psalms in 30 Sundays:

3 — When your own flesh & blood want you dead.
9 — I can praise Yahweh even when suffering disrupts the basic alphabet of my life.
16 — Yahweh is our good, our inheritance, and our life.
23 — Declarations for you.
27 — A prophecy about Jesus and about you.
32 — Do you need a bit & bridle?
35 & 37 — Do you want love or flaring nostrils to boomerang into your bosom?
39 & 40 — Be not mute to declare God’s goodness.
44 — You can bank on Yahweh's goodness in your woes.
50 — The sacrifice of thankfulness is not for God.
58 — Silence covers sin.
66 — Come, see, and hear the evangelistic anamnesis: We crossed over and were tested.
68 — Father the fatherless.
73 — Be not embittered by the world’s wickedness.
78 — Scotch-Tape or Mortar Your Heart to God?
85 — A confident relationship with God is where devoted love & truth meet, and where righteousness & peace kiss.
88 — Praising Yahweh and telling about his goodness is the purpose of this mortal life, and is how we fulfill the Great Commands to love God & neighbor.
90 — Moral Action — not time — is the measure of our lives.
97 — Light & Joy!
102 — The mortal world can find its orientation only by the Eternal One.
105 — God said = Creation.
107 — [guest preacher]
115 — Yahweh made Adam (and us) to be his vocal icons — his creatures who are his spokespersons.
116 — Costly in the sight of Yahweh is the death of his saints.
119a — [guest preacher]
119b — Loving the law reveals 32 insights about Yahweh.
124 — The question is not whether God is on our side, but: Are we on his?
136 — The devoted love (hesed) of Yahweh.
139 — Yahweh examines us even as his photons of light permeate all darkness.
149 — Salvation-from-not-being-loved is the crown of the humble.