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Chunks: The Book of Psalms

Chunks: The Book of Psalms

By: Cameron Lee
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 If the Bible had a hymnal, it would be the book of Psalms. This diverse collection of 150 poems and prayers runs the gamut of emotion and experience, from songs of highest praise to the deepest depths of lament, from prayers for help and salvation to vehement curses against the psalmist's enemies. We will not cover all the psalms in this podcast, nor take them in order. But my hope is that each episode will help you connect more personally with the riches of the Psalms. All biblical passages will be read from the New International Version, unless otherwise noted.Copyright 2025 Cameron Lee. All rights reserved.
Episodes
  • Episode 68: Broken

    Episode 68: Broken
    Aug 16 2025

    Some Old Testament texts critique what the whole system of ritual sacrifice had become: an exercise in piety that’s without true repentance. But in Psalm 51, the psalmist acknowledges that God doesn’t want sacrifices; he wants the psalmist’s broken heart.
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    7 mins
  • Episode 67: Lord, have mercy!

    Episode 67: Lord, have mercy!
    Aug 16 2025

    Psalm 51 is one of the few to begin with a heading that associates it with a specific historical event; in this case, it’s David’s sin with Bathsheba. Some tellings of that story get it drastically wrong. We need to tell the story rightly to understand the depth of David’s guilt, and the corresponding depth of his repentance and the grace of God that met it.
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    8 mins
  • Episode 66: Don’t be so stubborn!

    Episode 66: Don’t be so stubborn!
    Aug 16 2025

    When we were two years old, we may have gone through a period of stubborn rebellion. And even as adults, some of us may not be done rebelling. We don’t know why the author of Psalm 32 hid his sin from God. But he learned a great lesson from the love and grace he found after he confessed. The final verses read like a wisdom psalm, in which the psalmist tries to help God’s people to not make the same mistake he did.
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    7 mins
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