Psalm 145: One Generation Tells the Next

An alphabet psalm — each verse begins with the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which is a way of saying the subject covers everything from A to Z.

Near the start comes a line that has kept the church going for three thousand years: one generation shall commend your works to another.

Faith is not transmitted by argument alone but by an older person telling a younger one what they have seen. That is unglamorous work, done in kitchens and cars, and it is how almost everyone reading this came to be reading it.