Rev. Tom Hathaway - August 23, 2026
Lost in Translation
This is a sermon on Psalm 23, the psalm you think you know. "The Lord is my shepherd." "The valley of the shadow of death." You've heard it read at every funeral you've ever been to. Here's the thing: the King James translators knew some of it wasn't quite right, and used it anyway. This is a verse by verse walk through the psalm everybody knows and nobody's actually read, and the real version turns out to be something very different from the the one you memorized.
Scripture References: Psalms 23:1-6
From Series: "Summer in the Psalms"
The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, and they don't pretend. Across 150 of them, the full range of human experience gets handed to God, not just the polished feelings we bring to church but the raw ones we usually leave at the door. This summer we'll take four different kinds of psalm and learn how each one prays: the psalm that praises, the psalm that trusts, the psalm that gives thanks, and, yes, the psalm that rages. Four weeks on the songs that teach us we can bring God everything, even the parts we're not proud of.
