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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Pilgrim Songs
Description: We continue our trip through the Bible with today’s focus on Psalms. Not only are the scripture reading and sermon from Psalms, but the liturgy, prayers, and anthems are all either Psalms or are adapted from them. The Book of Psalms not only has been the “hymnal” through millennia for those who worship God, but it contains hymns/poems for any situation in which we might find ourselves. Embedded in the midst of the Book of Psalms is a series, “Psalms of Ascents,” which scholars believe were traveling psalms as pilgrims traveled toward Jerusalem to the Temple and then arrived th...