To listen to this sermon, use the link below. In the numerical order of the Psalms, this is the first one that is a psalm of praise, and it follows psalms that plead with God for deliverance. The Prayer Book Psalter has the opening phrase read, “O LORD our Governor,” Read more
To listen to this sermon, use the link below. The Sermon at Evensong, Wednesday, September 2nd, 2026, Wednesday after Trinity 13 Psalm 7 is a prayer for deliverance from the psalmist’s enemies, who are portrayed as fierce beasts about to attack him and tear him to pieces (Psalm 7:2). At Read more
To listen to this sermon (slightly expanded from these notes), use the link below. Sermon on Psalm 6, preached at Evensong on Wednesday, August 5th, 2026 The Text: Psalm 6 Psalm 6 is a plea for deliverance from suffering. In the psalms, sickness and suffering are not thought of as Read more
To listen to this sermon, use the link below. The Sermon for Evensong on Wednesday, July 1st, 2026 Psalm 5 is a prayer by the psalmist for deliverance from his enemies and from their wickedness. The psalm begins with three imperatives: ponder, consider, hearken. All of these call upon God Read more
The Sermon for Wednesday, June 3rd, the Commemoration of St. Augustine of Canterbury A sermon on Psalm 4 Psalm 4 is a lament psalm arising from either the psalmist’s distress or from some distress suffered by the nation of Israel but voiced by the speaker. The psalm commends itself to Read more
The Sermon for Evensong on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026: A Sermon on Psalm 2 INTRODUCTION Psalm 2 is the first of the royal psalms (scholars agree on these as the royal psalms: 2, 18, 20, 21, 45, 72, 89, 101, 110, 132, 144). These psalms originally provided the theology of Read more
Text: Psalm 3 INTRODUCTION Today is Wednesday in Holy Week, sometimes called Spy Wednesday, since it was observed traditionally as the day when Judas Iscariot agreed on betraying Jesus Christ to the chief priests for thirty pieces of silver. It is appropriate, then, that Psalm 3, on which I have Read more
A Sermon on Psalm 1 Psalm 1 is the introduction to the whole Book of Psalms. Scholars call it both a wisdom psalm and a Torah psalm. It is a wisdom psalm because of the theme of the two ways (the way of the righteous and the way of the Read more