A column featuring meditations on all 150 Psalms. Began in 2002, concluded in 2019.
Kit Swartz | July 15, 2016
Pilgrims coming to Jerusalem to celebrate the three great feasts (Exod. 23:14-17) would literally enact the imagery of this psalm as they came out of ...
Kit Swartz | May 13, 2016
Psalm 129 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: Knocked down but not knocked out (see 2 Cor. 4:9) Keywords: persecuted, not prevailed; ...
Kit Swartz | March 02, 2016
Psalm 128 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: The Lord blesses faithful people keywords: blessed, fear Psalm 128 is the ninth in the ...
Kit Swartz | January 04, 2016
Psalm 127 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: God is the giver of every good and perfect gift Keywords: house, city, children, labor, ...
Kit Swartz | November 02, 2015
Psalm 126 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: The Lord will certainly send revival Key Words: turning, sorrow, joy Psalm 126 is the ...
Kit Swartz | September 09, 2015
A Song of Ascents Psalm 125 is the sixth in the Songs of Ascents (120-134). The overall theme of the series is ascending to the temple in Jerusalem ...
Kit Swartz | July 15, 2015
Psalm 124 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: Deliverance from hopeless trouble Key Words: engulfed, swept, torn; Lord; escaped Psalm ...
Kit Swartz | May 06, 2015
Psalm 123 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: Waiting for God’s help Keywords: contempt, eyes, grace, until Psalm 123 is the ...
Kit Swartz | March 06, 2015
Psalm 122 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: I love to go to church! Key Words: the house of the Lord, Jerusalem, peace A Song of ...
Kit Swartz | January 05, 2015
Psalm 121 Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: The Lord is my keeper Key words: keep, shade A Song of Ascents. Psalm 121 is second in ...
November 05, 2014
*Psalm 120** Psalm Category: Song of Ascents Central Thought: Words will ever hurt me Key Words: lying, deceit, war Perhaps you have heard the ...
September 17, 2014
Psalm Category: Individual meditations and praises Central Thought: The Bible is the book to be loved because its Author is to be loved Key Words: ...
August 01, 2014
Psalm 118 Psalm Category: Public praises to God Central Thought: Christ leads us in His glory! Key words: distress, salvation, cornerstone This ...
June 02, 2014
Psalm Category: Public praises to God Central Thought: Boast in the Lord! Key Words: Praise, nations, lovingkindess, truth Good things do, indeed, ...
March 01, 2014
Psalm 116 Psalm Category: Public praises to God Central Thought: What can I give to God for saving me? Keywords: death, Lord, call, thank, ...
February 01, 2014
Psalm 115 Psalm Category: Public praises to God Central Thought: The Lord alone is worthy of ultimate trust and praise. Keywords: idols (vv. 4-8, ...
December 01, 2013
Psalm 114 Psalm Category: Public praise to God. Central Thought: God delivers both from and to. Key Words: tremble (v. 7); skip (vv. 4,6) The ...
October 01, 2013
Psalm 113 Psalm Category: Public praise to God Central Thought: The God who is lifted up is also the God who lifts up. Key word: Praise (vv. 1, 3, ...
July 01, 2013
Psalm 112 Psalm Category: Public Praise to God Central Thought: Man, made in the image of God, does wonderful works worthy of praise! Key Word: ...
May 01, 2013
Psalm 111 Psalm Category: Public praises to God Central Thought: Our God does wonderful works worthy of praise! Key Word: Works The theme of ...
The only congregation of the RPCNA in the state of Wyoming is in Laramie, a small city sprawled across a broad valley along Interstate 80 where the ...
Though unfamiliar to some, since at least Augustine it’s commonplace to speak of man’s fourfold state: the state of innocency, the state of ...
Having grown up in the midst of war-torn Iran and in a strictly Muslim family, at age nine Naghmeh Panahi nonetheless heard the Word of God and ...
I recently learned that quite a few people inquire with the RP Witness for practical suggestions on how congregations can find encouragement for ...