May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah - Psalm 67:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:27 – Introduction 04:53 – Commentary on Psalm 67 20:23 – Commentary on ‘I Don’t Want to Set the World onFire’ by The Ink Spots 50:24 – What Is a Podcast? 1:16:25 – The Results of the Grand E…

Come and hear, all you who fear God, and I will tell what he has done for my soul. - Psalm 66:16 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:49 – Introduction 05:37 – Commentary on Psalm 66 25:20 – Commentary on ‘Little Black Submarines’ byThe Black Keys 59:31 – To Not Grow Weary In Doing Good…

Praise is due to you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall vows be performed. - Psalm 65:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:30 – Introduction 15:06 – Commentary on Psalm 65 33:22 – Commentary on ‘Everybody Wants to Rule The World’by Tears for Fears 1:05:37 – Not Even a Cup of Tea is Everyone’s Cup of Tea…

Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. - Psalm 64:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:45 – Introduction 09:30 – Commentary on Psalm 64 34:27 – Commentary on ‘What Is Love’ by Haddaway 1:00:48 – The Way of Love 1:24:43 – My Psychological Profile…

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. - Psalm 63:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:55 – Introduction 08:37 – Commentary on Psalm 63 27:46 – Commentary on ‘Du hast’ by Rammstein 52:42 – Regarding Those Who Ha…

For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. - Psalm 62:5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:13 – Introduction 16:46 – Commentary on Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1in B-Flat Minor, Op.23: I 23:15 – Commentary on Psalm 62 36:19 – Honest Admissions After Talking About Everything for7 Years 50:1…

So will I ever sing praises to your name, as I perform my vows day after day. - Psalm 61:8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:26 – Introduction 09:00 – Commentary on “At The Cross (Love Ran Red)” 22:24 – Commentary on Psalm 61 34:54 – The Bible Readership Rate Gender Gap Closing 48:06 – Famous Trials: Comparing the Pa…

O God, you have rejected us, broken our defenses; you have been angry; oh, restore us. Psalm 60:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:10 – Introduction 05:27 – Commentary on Psalm 60 15:49 – Reflections on Editing 2 Years Worth of Content 43:01 – A Few Narrow Exceptions 55:12 – Reviewing ‘Lord of the Flies’ by William …

O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love. - Psalm 59:17 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:59 – Introduction 09:52 – Commentary on Psalm 59 38:15 – Palm Sunday 1:00:43 – WWJD with One Week to Live?

Mankind will say, “Surely there is a reward for the righteous; surely there is a God who judges on earth.” - Psalm 58:11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:55 – Introduction 06:14 – Commentary on Psalm 58 38:37 – Regarding the Imprecatory Psalms: A Range of Interpretations…

Be exalted, O God, above the heavens! Let your glory be over all the earth! - Psalm 57:11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:10 – Introduction 16:48 – Commentary on Psalm 57 37:26 – Our Collection of Superglued Coffee Mugs 58:58 – The Necessity of Being Appropriately Assertive forHealthy Relationships 1:12:06 – Not Mi…

I must perform my vows to you, O God; I will render thank offerings to you. - Psalm 56:12 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 02:14 – Introduction 25:27 – Commentary on Psalm 56 55:32 – Named Individuals Called Out in the New TestamentEpistles 1:18:19 – All the Specific Churches Corrected for ParticularlyProblematic Dynam…

But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you. - Psalm 55:23 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 03:34 – Introduction 17:15 – Commentary on Psalm 55 34:56 – Teaching Plutarch’s ‘Life of Julius Caesar’ 50:39 – Reviewin…

For strangers have risen against me; ruthless men seek my life; they do not set God before themselves. Selah - Psalm 54:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:27 – Introduction 13:23 – Commentary on Psalm 54 27:41 – Reviewing ‘Starship Troopers’ by Robert A. Heinlein 47:18 – About the Author 1:00:00 – The Power of Scien…

There they are, in great terror, where there is no terror! For God scatters the bones of him who encamps against you; you put them to shame, for God has rejected them. - Psalm 53:5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:36 – Introduction 34:16 – Commentary on Psalm 53 1:04:35 – What the Bible Teaches Us About Intentions 1…

But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever. - Psalm 52:8 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 01:54 – Introduction 16:17 – Commentary on Psalm 52 40:37 – The End of the U.S. Department of Miseducation 58:37 – When the New Sheriff in Town Actually Wants to Cat…

O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. - Psalm 51:15-17 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:25 – Scripture Reading 03…

“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 50:23 This Episode’s Topics: Scripture Reading Introduction Commentary on Psalm 50 How to (and Not to) Handle Misbehavior in Youth Ministry Thanksgiving As Sacrifice and Ordering Our Way Rightly…

Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish. - Psalm 49:20 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:59 – Introduction 10:41 – Commentary on Psalm 49 34:06 – Reviewing ‘Antifragile’ by Nassim Taleb 1:12:12 – Robustness and Antifragility 1:22:06 – Interventionism and Iatrogenics 1:29:36 – Ethics a…

We have thought on your steadfast love, O God, in the midst of your temple. As your name, O God, so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is filled with righteousness. Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice because of your judgments! - Psalm 48:9-11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture R…

For Yahweh, the Most High, is to be feared, a great king over all the earth. - Psalm 47:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:33 – Introduction 16:53 – Commentary on Psalm 47 40:08 – About Trump’s First Speech to Congress of His Second Term 1:14:15 – To Those Who Don’t Want Me to Talk About Everything…

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. - Psalm 46:1 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:58 – Introduction 20:43 – Commentary on Psalm 46 38:48 – That’s a Paddlin’ 46:56 – Looking Everywhere But the Mirror for Who to Blame 59:39 – No Truth, No Justice, No Peace 1:15:27 – Reviewing ‘Happy Lies’ b…

In place of your fathers shall be your sons; you will make them princes in all the earth. I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations; therefore nations will praise you forever and ever. - Psalm 45:16-17 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:08 – Introduction 14:05 – Commentary on Psalm 45 41:38 – When You…

If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. - Psalm 44:20-21 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:57 – Introduction 15:26 – ESL as Opposed to an EO Establishing English as the Official Language of the US 27:36 – A S…

Send out your light and your truth; let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling! - Psalm 43:3 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:24 – Introduction 15:55 – Commentary on Psalm 43 34:00 – Joe Rigney’s Related Book Just Published 48:26 – Reviewing ‘Against Empathy: The Case for RationalComp…

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God. - Psalm 42:11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:49 – Introduction 14:49 – Commentary on Psalm 42 23:35 – Reviewing ‘The Histories’ by Herodotus 53:39 – The Father of History and …

By this I know that you delight in me: my enemy will not shout in triumph over me. But you have upheld me because of my integrity, and set me in your presence forever. - Psalm 41:11-12 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:18 – Introduction 07:45 – Commentary on Psalm 41 29:49 – JD Vance and Niall Ferguson Butt Heads 44:…

Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! - Psalm 40:4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:11 – Introduction 17:45 – Commentary on Psalm 40 40:55 – Where Overreliance on Reductio ad Absurdum Gets Us 1:07:40 – The Necessity of Conservative Institut…

I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will guard my mouth with a muzzle, so long as the wicked are in my presence.” I was mute and silent; I held my peace to no avail, and my distress grew worse. - Psalm 39:1-2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:30 – Introduction 14:53 – Commentary on Psa…

But I am like a deaf man; I do not hear, like a mute man who does not open his mouth. I have become like a man who does not hear, and in whose mouth are no rebukes. - Psalm 38:13-14 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 03:04 – Introduction 13:16 – Commentary on Psalm 38 36:22 – Commentary on Psalm 37 1:07:25 – Plutarch, an…

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is a future for the man of peace. - Psalm 37:37 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 05:25 – Introduction 27:19 – What is ‘ordo amoris?’ Vice President JD Vance invokes this medieval Catholic concept – AP 33:03 – What is “Ordo Amoris”? – ChatGPT 44:45 - Compare Translati…

For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. -Psalm 36:2 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:13 – Introduction 15:48 – Whether the “Man Flu” is, in fact, a thing. 34:42 –We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan – Donna Lu, The…

Let those who delight in my righteousness shout for joy and be glad and say evermore, “Great is Yahweh, who delights in the welfare of his servant!” Then my tongue shall tell of your righteousness and of your praise all the day long. - Psalm 35:27-28 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:25 – Introduction 23:15 – “I don’…

This poor man cried, and Yahweh heard him and saved him out of all his troubles. - Psalm 34:6 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:50 – Introduction 26:36 – Dave Ramsey’s Tough Love Advice to Boomer Parents of Little Millennials Needing Help with Housing 48:21 – Claim: 40-50% of First Time Homebuyers in 2024 Received Fi…

Behold, the eye of Yahweh is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his steadfast love, that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine. - Psalm 33:18-19 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:54 – Introduction 20:44 – Some Personal Reflections on Uncertainty,Predictability, and Planning 40:36…

Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. - Psalm 32:9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:10 – Introduction 23:49 – Federal Government Authorizes Arrests of Illegal Immigrants at Schools, Churches –Zachary Stieber, The Epoch Times 45:0…

Love Yahweh, all you his saints! Yahweh preserves the faithful but abundantly repays the one who acts in pride. - Psalm 31:23 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:01 – Introduction 21:38 – 1.21.25 Sermon by The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde – Washington National Cathedral, YouTube 41:02 – Trump Criticizes Bishop Who As…

As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.” By your favor, O Yahweh, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed. - Psalm 30:6-7 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:13 – Introduction 15:05 – Commentary on Psalm 30 31:24 – How Much Power Will Republicans Have Post-Inauguration?…

Yahweh sits enthroned over the flood; Yahweh sits enthroned as king forever. May Yahweh give strength to his people! May Yahweh bless his people with peace! - Psalm 29:10-11 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 1:45 – Introduction 09:13 – Commentary on Psalm 29 30:29 – Hunter Dies When Bear Falls from Tree After Being Shot…

Oh, save your people and bless your heritage! Be their shepherd and carry them forever. - Psalm 28:9 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:56 – Introduction 13:28 – Commentary on Psalm 28 30:27 - EXCLUSIVE: Energy Experts Urge Incoming Trump Administration To Stop EPA Abuse – Leif Le Mahieu, DW 40:11 - EXCLUSIVE: Doug Bu…

Teach me your way, O Yahweh, and lead me on a level path because of my enemies. Give me not up to the will of my adversaries; for false witnesses have risen against me, and they breathe out violence. - Psalm 27:11-12 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:45 – Introduction 12:44 – Commentary on Psalm 27 31:29 – ‘Battle fo…

I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites. I hate the assembly of evildoers, and I will not sit with the wicked. - Psalm 26:4-5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:46 – Introduction 09:29 – Commentary on Psalm 26 24:03 – ‘History of the Conquest of Mexico’ by W.H. Prescott – Goodreads 47:32 –…

Good and upright is Yahweh; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. All the paths of Yahweh are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies. - Psalm 25:8-10 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:56 – Introduc…

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. - Psalm 24:3-4 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:47 – Introduction 10:00 – Commentary on Psalm 24 29:52 – ‘It’s All Fake…

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. - Psalm 23:5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:21 – Introduction 07:53 – My Commentary on Psalm 23 28:11 – ‘Caesar and Christ’ by Will Durant – Goodreads 50:30 – Caesar and Christ Quotes – Goodreads 1:11:37 – A…

Posterity shall serve him; it shall be told of Yahweh to the coming generation; they shall come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet unborn, that he has done it. - Psalm 22:30-31 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 04:39 – Introduction 16:15 – My Commentary on Psalm 22 33:15 – How Knowledge Puffs Up, But Love Bu…

Be exalted, O Yahweh, in your strength! We will sing and praise your power. - Psalm 21:13 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 02:12 – Introduction 08:35 – My Commentary on Psalm 21 29:12 – Positive Goals for 2025 49:40 – Negative Goals for 2025 1:11:59 – Resolution and Rejoicing Instead of Reactivity andRejection…

May he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans! May we shout for joy over your salvation, and in the name of our God set up our banners! May Yahweh fulfill all your petitions! - Psalm 20:4-5 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 01:44 – Introduction 12:05 – My Commentary on Psalm 20 34:12 – The Good in 2024…

The law of Yahweh is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of Yahweh is sure, making wise the simple; the precepts of Yahweh are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of Yahweh is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever; the rules of Yahweh are true, and righteous altogether. - Psalm 19:7-9 This Episode’…

Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever. - Psalm 18:50 This Episode’s Links and Timestamps: 00:00 – Scripture Reading 07:01 – Introduction 11:54 – My Commentary on Psalm 18 29:10 – White Christmas – IMDb 44:52 – After 70 Years, It’s Time To Start Taking ‘White Christmas’ Se…