Lesson
Not Reckoned
A lesson on Psalm 32: three words for sin and three for its removal, the silence that dried a man out, the verse Paul built Romans 4 on, and notes for singing it on Reformation Day.
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Articles and lessons on the Psalms, worship, and the life of the church.
PRPC - Saint Charles - Psalms for the Reformation (October 2026)
Lesson
Settled in Heaven
A lesson on Psalm 119: the acrostic, the eight words for the word of God, and eight of its twenty-two stanzas read closely — with Luther's three rules for studying theology, which he took from this psalm.
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Had Not the Lord
A lesson on Psalm 124: the sentence that describes a death which did not happen, the flood and the fowler's snare, and the verse with which Reformed churches still open worship — with the singing of it up Edinburgh's High Street in 1582.
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Out of the Depths
A lesson on Psalm 130: the De profundis, the question of verse 3 and the forgiveness of verse 4, the watchmen who wait for the morning, and notes for singing it — with Luther's paraphrase — in Reformation month.
Lesson
Only
A lesson on Psalm 62: the sixfold אַךְ, the silence that is not passivity, the two refrains and the one word that goes missing between them, and notes for singing it in Reformation month.
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A Very Present Help
A lesson on Psalm 46: the Hebrew key terms, the three Selah strophes, the city that cannot be moved, and notes for singing it in Reformation month.