Date: July 11, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 10 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Why, O Lord, do you stand far off? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble? The wicked sit in ambush in the villages; in hiding places they murder the innocent. Their eyes stealthily watch for the helpless; they seize the poor and drag them off in theirDate: July 4, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 130 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with you, soDate: June 27, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 119 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Let your steadfast love come to me, O Lord, your salvation according to your promise. Then I shall have an answer for those who taunt me, for I trust in your word. Do not take the word of truth utterly out of my mouth,Date: June 20, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 40 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
I urgently hoped for the Lord, who bent down toward me and heard my voice and brought me up from the roiling pit, from the thickest mire. And the Lord set my feet on a crag, made my steps firm. And put in my mouth a newDate: June 13, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 103 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless God’s holy name. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward thoseDate: June 6, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 146 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Praise for God’s Help Praise the Lord, O my soul! I will praise the Lord as long as I live; Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever;Date: May 30, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 118 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
A Song of Victory O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his steadfast love endures forever! Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me in a broad place. With the Lord on my side IDate: May 9, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 46 | Reverend Dr. Katie Snipes Lancaster
The Psalms have been with us for literally millennia. But just recently, scholar Robert Alter who teaches Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley offered up a new translation of the Psalms into English which reviewers say capture the simplicity, the physicality, and theDate: May 2, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 74 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
O God, why do you cast us off forever? Your foes have roared within your holy place; they set up their emblems there. At the upper entrance they hacked the wooden trellis with axes. And then, with hatchets and hammers, they smashed all its carved work. TheyDate: April 25, 2021
Bible Text: Psalm 27 | Reverend Dr. William A. Evertsberg
Howard Thurman, author of the Opening Prayer for the Easter Season, was a Christian prophetic mystic and pastor for the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. King famously carried with him wherever he went a Bible, a copy of the constitution and a copy of Howard Thurman’s book, “Jesus