This Psalm teaches us about life’s travails, and that Israel fails, but that Christ prevails.

David has two problems. There is David’s sin and there is David’s self. He faces his guilt as well as his guilty feelings. His repentance finds its voice, as does his faith, in the hope that God’s grace is sufficient for both his problems.

Many Psalms of Lament conclude with confidence in God despite suffering.  However, Psalm 44 begins with confidence, followed by a complaint, concluding with a call for God to act.

When language devolves into lies and power-relations to drown out trustworthiness, we find divine rescue in the sevenfold pure words of the Lord.

Why do we conceal our sins rather than confess them, especially when they imprison and distance us from God’s presence and his people? We’ll consider the folly of this approach to the Christian life and the liberating joys of confession flowing from our faith in the glorious gospel of the Lord Jesus.

From deep waters we cry to an attentive Lord for deliverance and forgiveness. Our watchful hope looks to his word of promise and plentiful redemption.

Even though our praise cannot actually make God greater or higher than He is, the Lord is pleased for our praise to exalt Him in our minds and hearts.

Psalm 8 contains the reflections of the psalmist upon the night sky. At the beginning and end, he speaks about the glory of God.

The Psalm is not a reflection focused on the pre-fall position of humanity in God’s creation but on God’s continued use of mankind in redemptive history.

Dr. Clark commences the WSC Fall Faculty series on the Psalms with a devotional from Psalm 2.

In times of distress, darkness, and hopelessness, the Psalmist exhorts believers to turn to the Lord and dwell in the shadow of the Almighty. God who is faithful will answer and will show his people His salvation.

Psalm 61 provides the believer a wonderful roadmap for prayer, bringing us back into the way of trusting God when we cry out for guidance, remember his faithfulness, and long for his presence.

Psalm 29 reminds us of the incomparable power of God, and how he makes peace by defeating his enemies.

We will consider the outcome of the meal the Lord prepares for us in the presence of our enemies.

Psalm 130 is a microcosm of the ordinary Christian life of guilt, grace, and gratitude.

We will be looking at God’s promise to restore the fortunes of Zion and the various ways in which he has done and will do that.  

Westminster Seminary California President Joel Kim delivers the spring 2020 President's Chapel