O Lord, open my lips,

and my mouth will declare your praise.

For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;

you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

- Psalm 51:15-17

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:25 – Scripture Reading

03:05 – Introduction

16:04 – Commentary on Psalm 51

48:01 – How Long That Should Take for the U.S. to be Headedin ‘the Right Direction’

1:13:05 – Whether Religion is Regarded as a Force for Goodor Bad

1:21:19 – God Differentiates Between Good Apologies and Bad Ones, and So Should We

“The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;

to one who orders his way rightly

I will show the salvation of God!”

- Psalm 50:23

This Episode’s Topics:

Scripture Reading

Introduction

Commentary on Psalm 50

How to (and Not to) Handle Misbehavior in Youth Ministry

Thanksgiving As Sacrifice and Ordering Our Way Rightly

Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.

- Psalm 49:20

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

02:59 – Introduction

10:41 – Commentary on Psalm 49

34:06 – Reviewing ‘Antifragile’ by Nassim Taleb

1:12:12 – Robustness and Antifragility

1:22:06 – Interventionism and Iatrogenics

1:29:36 – Ethics and Foundational Asymmetry

We have thought on your steadfast love, O God,

in the midst of your temple.

As your name, O God,

so your praise reaches to the ends of the earth.

Your right hand is filled with righteousness.

Let Mount Zion be glad!

Let the daughters of Judah rejoice

because of your judgments!

- Psalm 48:9-11

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

02:09 – Introduction

07:20 – Commentary on Psalm 48

27:59 – Reviewing ‘Centennial’ by James A. Michener

46:22 – Hereford Country, Sheep Talk From the Pulpit NotWelcome

1:05:52 – The Badger Game, Singing in Church, and Ill-Gotten Gains

For Yahweh, the Most High, is to be feared,

a great king over all the earth.

- Psalm 47:2

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

01:33 – Introduction

16:53 – Commentary on Psalm 47

40:08 – About Trump’s First Speech to Congress of His Second Term

1:14:15 – To Those Who Don’t Want Me to Talk About Everything

God is our refuge and strength,

a very present help in trouble.

- Psalm 46:1

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

01:58 – Introduction

20:43 – Commentary on Psalm 46

38:48 – That’s a Paddlin’

46:56 – Looking Everywhere But the Mirror for Who to Blame

59:39 – No Truth, No Justice, No Peace

1:15:27 – Reviewing ‘Happy Lies’ by Melissa Dougherty

In place of your fathers shall be your sons;

   you will make them princes in all the earth.

I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;

   therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

- Psalm 45:16-17

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

03:08 – Introduction

14:05 – Commentary on Psalm 45

41:38 – When You’re Rich They Think You Really Know

50:46 – If You Hear That Says Someone Is Lying, You CanProbably Trust That

1:06:28 – Whether the Oaths of Atheists Carry Any Weight

1:16:32 – How the Capacity for Greatness Relates to Who WeThink We Are

1:25:20 – When Disillusionment Facilitates Insight, but Estrangement Curtails the Benefits

If we had forgotten the name of our God

   or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

   would not God discover this?

For he knows the secrets of the heart.

- Psalm 44:20-21

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

03:57 – Introduction

15:26 – ESL as Opposed to an EO Establishing English as the Official Language of the US

27:36 – A Slowing of Christianity’s Decline in the United States, and How I Disagree with Christopher Haylett

1:07:57 – Oblong Obtuseness in the Oval Office, and What Teddy Roosevelt Might Say

1:20:28 – Commentary on Psalm 44

Send out your light and your truth;

let them lead me;

  let them bring me to your holy hill

and to your dwelling!

- Psalm 43:3

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

01:24 – Introduction

15:55 – Commentary on Psalm 43

34:00 – Joe Rigney’s Related Book Just Published

48:26 – Reviewing ‘Against Empathy: The Case for RationalCompassion’ by Paul Bloom

1:11:05 – We Can and Must Do Better Than Feeling One Another’s Pain

1:15:17 – How First Responders Do

1:21:20 – The Difference Between Can and Ought or Shall

1:26:59 – Correlation or Causation When Empathy Obstructsand Leads Us Astray

Why are you cast down, O my soul,

and why are you in turmoil within me?

  Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,

my salvation and my God.

- Psalm 42:11

This Episode’s Links and Timestamps:

00:00 – Scripture Reading

03:49 – Introduction

14:49 – Commentary on Psalm 42

23:35 – Reviewing ‘The Histories’ by Herodotus

53:39 – The Father of History and The Fly in the Ointment

1:12:34 – Fake News, Hearsay, and Objections That Belie Epistemological Assumptions