Praying with the Psalmists
My pandemic project was writing a book about Psalms, and now the main work of writing it is finished. The book is about looking at the ten types of Psalms…
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Praying a Thanksgiving Psalm
I’m working on a book about Psalms. It’s called Praying with the Psalmists and analyzes ten different types of Psalms in the Bible. Then the reader is challenged to use…
Psalm of Trust
I’m working on a book about Psalms, and using the forms found in the Book of Psalms to write your own prayers. While I’m doing that, I’m writing my own…
Creation Psalms
I’m doing a project where I’m looking at different types of Psalms and using the ideas to write my own psalms. It’s a form of prayer and an exercise that…
Wisdom Psalms
I’m doing a project where I’m going over different types of Psalms I learned about in Psalms class when I was a student at Biola University more than thirty years…
My Own Salvation History Psalm
Last week, I wrote about Salvation History Psalms. Part of my point in analyzing different types of Psalms is to encourage people to try them out. Write a Psalm! It’s…
Remembering God’s Faithfulness
Back in the 1980s when I was a student at Biola University, I took an amazing class on the Psalms taught by Dr. Edward Curtis. He taught us about the…
Praying in Crazy Times
During this pandemic, I’ve heard people say they don’t even know how to pray. I’m thinking about the Psalms lately as I think about praying. I do believe there are…
A Psalm from the Scatterbrained
I’m feeling scatterbrained this week. I’m trying to focus and failing. Tonight I was trying to get to working on my Psalms book again and just going nowhere. That’s when…
Do Try This At Home!
I got some wonderful responses to yesterday’s Lament for Covid-19. People said it touched them. But that wasn’t what I was going for. What I wanted was for people to…