I invite you to consider the words of Psalm 8: For the leader, on the gittith. A psalm of David. 2 Lord, our Lord, How majestic is Your name throughout the earth, You who have covered the heavens with ...

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We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...