Until All Things Are Made Right

The Psalms speak honestly about a world that is not yet as it should be while stubbornly trusting the God who has not abandoned it. Through songs of mercy, restoration, guidance, justice, hope, and enduring faithfulness, we discover that what is wrong is not ultimate, because Christ reigns until all things are made right.

9/13/26 — “Mercy is the Last Word”

Primary text: Ps 103:1-13

Other texts: Gen 50:15-21; Rom 14:1-12; Matt 18:21-35

The past can exercise enormous power over the present, especially through guilt, resentment, and wounds we continue to carry. Psalm 103 remembers a God whose mercy is greater than the record of what has gone wrong: God forgives, heals, redeems, and removes our sins as far as east is from west. God begins making things right by giving mercy the last word.

9/20/26 — “Mercy Over All”

Primary text: Ps 145:1-8

Other texts: Jonah 3:10-4:11; Phil 1:21-30; Matt 20:1-16

We are often comfortable with grace until it reaches someone we believe deserves less of it. Psalm 145 praises the God who is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love—a goodness that reaches farther than our boundaries. God's work of making things right begins with a mercy wide enough for all.

9/27/26 — “God Leads Us Home” — Lance Preaching

Primary text: Ps 25:1-9

Other texts: Ezek 18:1-4, 25-32; Phil 2:1-13; Matt 21:23-32

We do not always know the way forward, and sometimes our certainty about our own way is itself part of the problem. The Psalmist asks God to teach, guide, and lead because God's paths are steadfast love and faithfulness. God makes things right by leading us into a better way of living.

10/4/26 — “God Restores the Vineyard”

Primary text: Ps 80:7-15

Other texts: Is 5:1-7; Phil 3:4b-14; Matt 21:33-46

Psalm 80 looks upon a vineyard once lovingly planted but now broken open and ravaged. Yet Israel responds to ruin with a prayer for restoration, trusting that the Gardener still cares for what God has planted. The broken places of our lives and our world remain places where God can cultivate new life.

10/11/26 — “The Shepherd Walks With Us”

Primary text: Ps 23

Other texts: Is 25:1-9; Phil 4:1-9; Matt 22:1-14

Some roads pass through green pastures, while others wind through the darkest valley. Psalm 23 does not promise a life free from difficult terrain; it promises a Shepherd whose presence accompanies us through all of it. Wherever the journey toward restoration takes us, the Shepherd walks with us.

10/18/26 — “Creation Sings for Joy”

Primary text: Ps 96:1-13

Other texts: Is 45:1-7; 1 Thes 1:1-10; Matt 22:15-22

Psalm 96 imagines the whole creation erupting in celebration because God is coming to judge the world with righteousness and truth. Divine judgment is good news because God comes to set right what injustice has distorted. The sea roars, the fields exult, and the trees sing because creation recognizes the arrival of its hope.

10/25/26 — “Planted Beside the Water”

Primary text: Ps 1

Other texts: Lev 19:1-2, 15-18; 1 Thes 2:1-8; Matt 22:34-46

Psalm 1 imagines human flourishing as a tree planted beside streams of water, rooted deeply enough to bear fruit in its season. God's work of restoration includes forming lives nourished by God's wisdom and shaped toward goodness. God is cultivating people who can flourish within the world God is making right.

11/1/26 — “Follow the Light Home”

Primary text: Ps 43

Other texts: Micah 3:5-12; 1 Thes 2:9-13; Matt 23:1-12

There are seasons when what we experience seems difficult to reconcile with what we believe about God. The Psalmist asks God to send out light and truth to lead him again into God's presence. God's light gives us a way forward and draws us toward the restoration for which we hope.

11/8/26 — “Come Quickly, O God”

Primary text: Ps 70

Other texts: Amos 5:18-24; 1 Thes 4:13-18; Matt 25:1-13

Hope does not require us to become comfortable with suffering while we wait for something better. Psalm 70 gives voice to an urgent longing for God's promised deliverance to become present reality: “O LORD, do not delay!” Faith can both trust God's future and ache for that future to come quickly.

11/15/26 — “Our Days Are Held”

Primary text: Ps 90:1-12

Other texts: Zeph 1:7, 12-18; 1 Thes 5:1-11; Matt 25:14-30

Our lives are brief, our days pass quickly, and every generation eventually confronts the limits of human mortality. Psalm 90 places those fleeting lives within the eternity of the God who has been our dwelling place from generation to generation. Even our numbered days are held within the life and faithfulness of the everlasting God.

11/22/26 — “The Shepherd Reigns”

Primary text: Ps 95:1-7a

Other texts: Ezek 34:11-16, 20-24; Eph 1:15-23; Matt 25:31-46

The Psalms have carried us through mercy and restoration, valleys and injustice, waiting and mortality, always trusting that the world remains in God's hands. On Reign of Christ Sunday, we name the hope toward which those songs have been leading: “The LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods,” and we are the people of God's pasture. The King who reigns over creation is our Shepherd, and his reign is carrying creation toward the day when all things are made right.

 

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