Psalms
21 conversations where the hosts get into psalms.
21 conversations
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Is modern Christianity biased toward a personality type?
- Is modern Christianity (its sermons and worship music) biased toward a certain personality type?
A host asks whether what churches teach, focus on, and sing is biased toward a certain personality type — prompted by emotive worship lyrics (the 'sloppy wet kiss' line in a…
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Dear LFTP 1: loud coworkers, the joining-in manager, and the Psalm 126 follow-up
- How should employees handle loud, disruptive coworkers whose manager joins in?
Mike reads the first Dear LFTP letter: a shared workspace where one department talks nonstop about non-work topics, and their manager joins in rather than correcting them — the writers are desperate for a reasonable work setting.
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Why do we even read the Psalms?
- Why do we even read the Psalms?
Mike (speaker-0) asks why we read the Psalms: coming off Job, he is confused whether he is supposed to agree with David's complaints, since Job was rebuked for making the same arguments.
From No. 219 · Why Read the Psalms?
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Chat question: did God knit each of us for a specific purpose?
- Did God knit each of us together in the womb for a specific purpose?
A chat question asks whether God knit everyone together in the womb for a specific purpose (Psalm 139).
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How do the 20 engage the 80? Soft vs hard messages
- How should the active 20% engage the less-active 80% without judgment or baggage?
Returning to substance, the hosts ask how the active 20% should engage the 80% - take them by the hand, or let God do his job?
From No. 24 · Sittin' In Your Own Pew (And Doin' Nothing Else)
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Faithfulness, Psalm 119, and an answered-prayer testimony
- Is there a Greek word for 'believe' that is as passive as the English word?
A host reads from Psalm 119 about loving God's precepts and prays it back as 'show me how to live this out today.'
From No. 400 · Ineffective Conspiracies and Monday Morning Christians
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Dan's Pauline letter to his daughter
- What should Dan write in a birthday letter to his daughter as if he were the apostle Paul?
Dan shares that his daughter asked him to write her a birthday letter as if he were the apostle Paul writing to a church, something she can keep for decades.
From No. 574 · Starring Ted Danson as Joab
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For us or for them? Reading scripture in its context
- How much of a Bible verse applies to the people directly in the story versus to us?
The hosts work the 'for us, for them' idea: how much of a Bible verse applies to the people directly in the story versus to us.
From No. 555 · The Aslan Wears Prada
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Not rushing prayer and Bible reading
- How do you keep from rushing through prayer and Bible reading?
A long host discussion on slowing down with God: one host cut music from his forty-minute commute so he would stop rushing prayer to get to the tunes, and the room lands on the line that holiness does not come from hurry.
From No. 518 · Jesus Blocked the Jukebox
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Hidden sin five: Apathy
- Is apathy the sin, or a symptom of the sin?
The fifth item, apathy, is agreed to be a symptom rather than a sin: when David sinned he felt disconnected from God, and apathy is the recognition of that separation.
From No. 475 · Finding Sin, Missing God
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Psalms in LTG; marking up Bibles; praying by a daughter's bed
A host describes grinding through Psalms in his LTG and discovering he retains far more when he underlines and writes in his Bible, recalling underlining Psalm 101's integrity lines.
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Secular vs Solomon: the laughter Bible quiz
Ben runs a ten-question online Bible quiz on laughter in the Bible, reading the questions and multiple-choice options while the other two play along.
From No. 593 · Do You Hear What I Hear
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Horizontal vs. vertical: testimony, David, and the Psalms
The hosts argue Christian music drew the line at 'vertical only' (songs to God) and lost the 'horizontal' songs — testimonies of sinners God redeemed, which is what early modern Christian music was.
From No. 281 · Honesty in Christian Music
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Lament, anger, and honest emotion
The conversation turns to lament and honest emotion: the Psalms (Psalm 22 language about bones and joints) as permission to bring unfiltered feelings to God, a Psalm 137:9 line…
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Honest prayer: conversational prayer, David's justice psalms, prayer circles
Another host agrees the corporate prayer list (thankful-fors, then needs) blocks real conversation, and says his best prayers were simply talking to God as Father.
From No. 366 · Beyond the Country
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The well: legalism versus faithfulness in daily reading
The hosts develop the well metaphor: do not wait until you are dying of thirst to drink; stop by the well daily even when you do not feel thirsty.
From No. 400 · Ineffective Conspiracies and Monday Morning Christians
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Worship artists with complicated faith
The hosts take up Derek Webb's claim that many worship artists' private faith is far more complicated than their songs suggest.
From No. 395 · How the Church is Solving Every Modern Problem Incorrectly
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Renewal proposal: four scripture readings weekly
Proposal six calls for four scripture readings weekly, including a psalm as a call to worship and paired Old and New Testament texts.
From No. 387 · Renewing Deuces and Fearing God
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Virtue 7: doubting and questioning God
The hosts take up the virtue of 'never doubting or questioning God.' They note the article itself cites Jesus on blasphemy (all blasphemies forgivable except one) and the Psalms,…
From No. 310 · Niceness vs. Kindness
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Journaling and prayer journals
A host says he gave his marked-up childhood Bible to Brandon Shoemaker, Lori Haleso's oldest son, hoping the notes help him, and the crew notes he also has his own father's heavily annotated Bible.
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The Psalms as an emotional roller coaster
The hosts describe the Psalms as a roller coaster, swinging from praise to lament within pages, which they find relatable to human emotional life.