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In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Join pastor Dane Ortlund, best-selling author of Gentle and Lowly, Monday through Friday each week on a journey through all 150 psalms in the Bible. Listen as he reads and reflects on each psalm in full—helping us see what these Scriptural songs tell us about God, about ourselves, and about the grace that the Lord offers to us with open hands.
Episodes
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 63 - My Soul Thirsts for You
The heart of Christianity is not a set of doctrines to believe, even though sound doctrine is vital. Nor is the heart of Christianity an activity to pursue…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 62 - My Soul Waits for God Alone
Pain has a special way of exposing where our trust truly lies. But pain also brings us into our only secure trust: the Lord himself. Dane Ortlund is the author…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 61 - Lead Me to the Rock
How do you handle distress — emotional, psychological, physical, financial? What is your heart-impulse when you feel swamped by adversity? Cry out to the Lord…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 60 - He Will Tread Down Our Foes
Ultimately, through Jesus Christ, God fulfills his promises to Abraham, and the New Testament indicates that God’s way of continuing to fulfill his land…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 59 - Deliver Me from My Enemies
If we have pains we do not deserve, how much more does the holy God not deserve the pains of our own failure to defend him and praise him and follow him…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 58 - God Who Judges the Earth
God will right all wrongs. The final judgment of God is a deeply liberating doctrine. All will be put to right. We can release the need to judge now. We can…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 57 - Let Your Glory Be over All the Earth
In the midst of difficulty, the Holy Spirit delights to bring us into this settled place of contentment: as long as God is exalted, all is well. As long as he…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 56 - In God I Trust
This psalm lists different reasons not to be afraid. One striking remark from David addresses the tender nearness of God. Consider the beautiful imagery David…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 55 - Cast Your Burden on the Lord
Betrayals happen every day on this earth, but there is one Friend who we know will never betray us. Open up to him, fellowship with him, pour out your heart to…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 54 - The Lord Upholds My Life
Instead of looking around for some other person or group of people to protect him, David looks to God. His eyes go up, not out. Dane Ortlund is the author of…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 53 - There Is None Who Does Good
If you feel yourself to be under the indictment of this psalm, this is all that is needed to receive the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. To the degree that you…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 52 - The Steadfast Love of God Endures
To trust God means to live your life as if God actually exists and is who he says he is. It is to conduct your existence in such a way that what you say that…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 51 - Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
Amid your dirtiness, you are free to breathe again. In Christ, you are rinsed clean—invincibly, permanently, irreversibly. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 50 - God Himself Is Judge
God wants us to honor him simply by crying out for help: “Call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.” We glorify God by…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 49 - Why Should I Fear in Times of Trouble?
Jesus Christ left the beauty of heaven to walk through the brokenness of this fallen world. And he went willingly to a Roman cross to ransom sinners from the…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 48 - Zion, the City of Our God
Do you live in a city? A town? A village? God does not simply dwell among you, in some special building. He dwells in you. He could not be closer. Dane Ortlund…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 47 - God Is King over All the Earth
One day, through the salvation wrought in Jesus Christ, the true and final descendant of Abraham, God will welcome into the new heavens and the new earth a…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 46 - God Is Our Fortress
What worries your heart as you lie awake in bed? God says: I, not any circumstantial solution, am your refuge amid your adversities. I am a very present help…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 45 - Your Throne, O God, Is Forever
Jesus is the ideal king. Even today, when most nations are not under the rule of a pure monarchy, this is the king, the ruler, every human heart longs for. A…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 44 - Come to Our Help
Fallen men and women stand in need of a salvation that comes wholly from outside of them. They contribute nothing but their need.When God’s people stand in…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 43 - Send Out Your Light and Your Truth
The Hebrew word for “salvation” here reads literally “the salvation of my face.” God does not save me in ethereal abstraction. He draws near to me, so near…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 42 - Why Are You Cast Down, O My Soul?
The tidal wave of true separation from the Father washed over Another so that it need never wash over us. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 41 - O Lord, Be Gracious to Me
David knew only in shadows what we know in full light: even though he would one day die and be buried in the ground, he will indeed be raised up by the mercy…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 40 - My Help and My Deliverer
The greater Son of David came into this world and never faltered from doing the will of God. He then suffered what our sin deserves and rose triumphant from…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 39 - What Is the Measure of My Days?
For God is the one hope of this life who will not, in the end, let us down. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 38 - Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord
God’s answer for those who squander his grace through folly is: more grace. In Jesus, this unending fountain of inexhaustible grace has been secured. Dane…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 37 - He Will Not Forsake His Saints
The core message of this psalm is that true fullness of life comes not as we expect. It is found not in manipulating our circumstances or controlling those…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 36 - How Precious Is Your Steadfast Love
With this psalm David brings us with him into a renewed, settled confidence that it is the Lord who will triumph in our lives. He will care for us. He will get…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 35 - Great Is the Lord
David is under assault, and once more he turns to God for deliverance. His own human resources are no match for the adversity he is facing—he must appeal to…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 34 - Taste and See That the Lord Is Good
To look to the Lord and be radiant as a result is to walk through life in happy defiance of any circumstantial adversity sending your emotional life into…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 33 - The Steadfast Love of the Lord
Over all the madness and chaos of this world, all the political conflicts and military endeavors and voting booths and family dysfunctions and physical…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 32 - Blessed Are the Forgiven
In the fullness of time God sent his own Son to be our sacrificial Lamb. In him we receive forgiveness because the punishment we deserved was poured out on…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 31 - Into Your Hand I Commit My Spirit
What does it mean to “take refuge” in God, as David says numerous times in this psalm? What does it mean that God is our “fortress”? Dane Ortlund is the author…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 30 - Joy Comes with the Morning
Through Jesus’ death and resurrection, God draws near to sinners and enjoys fellowship with us once more. Let us praise him. Dane Ortlund is the author of In…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 29 - Ascribe to the Lord Glory
Has the awe-inspiring greatness of God displayed in unspeakable majesty and strength been pressed into your heart? If not, this psalm helps to do so. Dane…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 28 - The Lord Is My Strength and My Shield
David does not expend his energies engaging his enemies or defending himself or pursuing any other humanly contrived strategy. He receives the horizontal…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 27 - The Lord Is My Light and My Salvation
If the Lord is your light and salvation, of whom will you be afraid? Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through the…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 25 - Teach Me Your Paths
When life overwhelms us, when the bottom is falling out, this is where Scripture takes us: to God. We do not achieve internal calm by securing external calm…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 26 - I Will Bless the Lord
David knows that he can count on the Lord to deliver him because this is who God has always been for his people. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 24 - The King of Glory
For, in the fullness of time, the high and lofty God came near to his people, tangibly near, in flesh and blood. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 23 - The Lord Is My Shepherd
We know that Jesus Christ walked through the ultimate valley of the shadow of death, the darkness of condemnation and hell—a fate that should have landed on…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 22 - Why Have You Forsaken Me?
David assumes God has forsaken him. He does not ask God if he has forsaken him. He asks why, assuming God already has. Yet in light of the promises made to…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 21 - The King Rejoices in the Lord’s Strength
David rejoices in God’s goodness to him as the anointed king. But his own rule would quickly fade from history. A greater King, however, would one day come…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 20 - Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God
God alone is able to bear the weight of our deepest trust. And God alone will never let us down when we place the full weight of our trust on him. In Christ he…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 19 - The Law of the Lord Is Perfect
The Word of God not only reveals who God is; it also reveals who we are, in all our sin and need. The lofty call of Scripture is worthy of all pursuit, yet…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 18 - The Lord Is My Rock and My Fortress
We can trust God, no matter how dire the circumstance. For in the gospel the direst of circumstances—our deserved condemnation and an eternity in hell—have…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 17 - In the Shadow of Your Wings
Whatever unfolds in this life, David knows that one day he will be at rest in the presence of the Lord. Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 16 - You Will Not Abandon My Soul
The ringing note on which the psalm ends has been deeply calming encouragement to saints down through the ages. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 15 - Who Shall Dwell on Your Holy Hill?
To dwell on God’s holy mountain means to pass into and abide in the temple. But Jesus did not come simply to the temple; he came as the temple. Dane Ortlund is…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 14 - The Fool Says, There Is No God
Sin is universal. No one is exempt. But grace is universally available. No one need be exempt. All that is required is a trusting faith in Jesus Christ. Dane…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 13 - How Long, O Lord?
If David can bank everything on God, even when on the brink of despair, how much more can we today? Dane Ortlund is the author of In the Lord I Take Refuge…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 12 - The Faithful Have Vanished
God delights to rescue us in our need. How do we know this? Because in Christ he’s already achieved the greatest deliverance and accomplished our greatest…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 11 - The Lord Is in His Holy Temple
What does it mean that believers will see the face of God? It means we will become ourselves, finally. It means dawn will rise on the dark gray of this fallen…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 10 - Why Do You Hide Yourself?
God sent his own Son, the one man who was ever truly just, to go to a cross and swallow all of the injustice of all of those who would simply trust in him…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 9 - I Will Recount Your Wonderful Deeds
God is never caught by surprise amid global upheaval and strife. He is never perplexed or left groping for solutions. He reigns. And one day, all that is done…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 8 - How Majestic Is Your Name
David brings us to praise God for the remarkable care he has entrusted to us. He is the God of the heavens, having placed the stars in their orbits, and yet he…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 7 - In You Do I Take Refuge
David is not putting on blinders to his own sinfulness; rather, he is asking for truth and objective honesty to be pursued. Dane Ortlund is the author of In…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 6 - O Lord, Deliver My Life
When we are brought into the dark valleys of life as we journey through this fallen world, we have, and we need, one thing: God. And we can know that we have…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 5 - Lead Me in Your Righteousness
Content to leave the punishment of all evil in God’s hands, David directs his heart elsewhere. He does not let thoughts of evildoers fester in his mind but…
- In the Lord I Take Refuge: Daily Devotions Through the Psalms with Dane Ortlund
Psalm 4 - Answer Me When I Call
In the darkness of this moment, David makes up his mind: he will trust in the Lord. The result? A greater joy than any material prosperity could ever provide…