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Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Most of us were taught to pray politely. We clean it up before we bring it — the doubt, the anger, the thing we can't say out loud. So prayer stays thin, and we stop.The Psalms are the way out. They're not poems about God; they're words spoken to Him — raw, specific, and unembarrassed. Eugene Peterson called prayer answering speech: God speaks first, and the Psalms are how people learned to answer back.Each episode is short. One Psalm read aloud, a few words on what the writer is actually doing…
Episodes
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 68 — Wednesday 19 August
This one is a pile of fragments — a procession, a battle, a rainstorm, and it doesn't argue itself into order. The pieces only fit if you're paying attention…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 18 — Tuesday 18 August
David wrote this after years of being hunted — Saul chasing him from cave to cave, and then it was over. He starts by piling up names for God because one won't…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 139 — Monday 17 August
David isn't saying God knows everything in general. He's saying God knows him — when he sits down, what he's about to say before he says it. Then he tries to…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 92 — Sunday 16 August
Psalm 92 is written for the Sabbath — but it isn't restful in the way you'd expect. It's a man looking at people who are doing well by doing wrong, and…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 103 — Saturday 15 August
David talking to himself, telling his own soul not to forget. He lists what God has done — forgives, heals, redeems, crowns — and then does the arithmetic on…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 22 — Friday 14 August
It opens with an accusation. Not a complaint about circumstances — a question put straight to God about God. Why have you left me. He says he cries out and…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 51 — Thursday 13 August
David wrote this after he'd slept with another man's wife and had the man killed to cover it. He doesn't explain himself. He doesn't spread the blame. He says…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 68 — Wednesday 12 August
This one is a pile of fragments — a procession, a battle, a rainstorm, and it doesn't argue itself into order. The pieces only fit if you're paying attention…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 18 — Tuesday 11 August
David wrote this after years of being hunted — Saul chasing him from cave to cave, and then it was over. He starts by piling up names for God because one won't…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 139 — Monday 10 August
David isn't saying God knows everything in general. He's saying God knows him — when he sits down, what he's about to say before he says it. Then he tries to…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 92 — Sunday 9 August
Psalm 92 is written for the Sabbath — but it isn't restful in the way you'd expect. It's a man looking at people who are doing well by doing wrong, and…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 103 — Saturday 8 August
David talking to himself, telling his own soul not to forget. He lists what God has done — forgives, heals, redeems, crowns — and then does the arithmetic on…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 22 — Friday 7 August
It opens with an accusation. Not a complaint about circumstances — a question put straight to God about God. Why have you left me. He says he cries out and…
- Learn to Talk to God — a Daily Psalm
Psalm 51 — Thursday 6 August
David wrote this after he'd slept with another man's wife and had the man killed to cover it. He doesn't explain himself. He doesn't spread the blame. He says…