Download or read book PRAISE LAMENT Psalms for the God of Birds written by Jane Beal and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 40 psalm-poems includes praises and laments as well as psalms of creation, psalms of ascent, and a black-and-white reproduction of the medieval Psalter Map. A study guide for small groups seeking to relate their poetry reading to scripture and their spiritual lives follows the main text. Enjoy!
Download or read book Open and Unafraid written by W. David O. Taylor and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book you will want to read and read again." -- Eugene Peterson Afterword by Bono. How can we find a more transparent, resilient, and fearless life of faith? The book of Psalms has been central to God's people for millennia, across all walks of life and cultural contexts. In reading it, we discover that we are never alone in our joys, sorrows, angers, doubts, praises, or thanksgivings. In it, we learn about prayer and poetry, honesty and community, justice and enemies, life and death, nations and creation. Open and Unafraid shows us how to read the psalms in a fresh, life-giving way, and so access the bottomless resources for life that they provide. "David Taylor’s take is 'open and unafraid' alright. He really goes there, exposing himself before God in the most beautiful way. He might have called the book Naked, because if you don’t find your own self feeling a little exposed here, it might be time to take some armor off." -- Bono, from the Afterword "A book that you will want to read and read again, and yet again, in order to discover the wisdom of the Psalms that shows us how to walk in the life-giving way of Jesus." -- Eugene Peterson, from the Foreword "A winsome, accessible entry into the Book of Psalms…Connects the poetry of the psalms to real-life wonders and struggles." -- Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary "Taylor reads these biblical prayers with Dr. Seuss, rappers, and other poets, along with theologians and the daily news....Guides readers in tracing out patterns of holy speech that have the potential for healing our hearts and our communities." -- Ellen F. Davis, Duke Divinity School "I have always loved the psalms--for their defiant devotion, their deep joy, and their brutal yet beautiful honesty. And after reading this fantastic book about them, I love them even more." -- Matt Redman, worship leader and song writer "In these fraught and fearsome days, we need the psalms more than ever. And we need more faithful artists and thinkers like David Taylor to mine the infinite gifts the psalms offer across the ages." -- Karen Swallow Prior, author of Fierce Convictions
Download or read book Resounding the Psalms written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-07 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is how I have heard The Psalms, these poems of praise and lament. The psalmist's cry for help and recognition, a nation's prayer of repentance and their call for justice. They cover the whole range of human emotions from joy to anger, from hope to despair. The Psalms may sit in the middle of the Old Testament but their language and themes permeate the whole of the Bible. They foretell the coming of the Messiah, they call for the forgiveness of sin, they praise God as creator and redeemer and recognise His priorities to care for the poor and hungry, to look after the immigrant and protect the widow and dispossessed. Their verses are quoted by Jesus and echoed by Paul. Unsurprisingly, they continue to be used in Jewish worship and the words and poetry of The Psalms is found in Christian liturgy, as well as being recited as Holy Scripture. The Psalms can be a challenge to read and to fully understand. They are full of emotion, and private anguish. These hymns or prayers set down the psalmist's spiritual and bodily concerns, usually in the context of the history of God's chosen people. The Psalms also provide us with unforgettable images of the glory and majesty of God's power and creation. Here we have the psalmist in conversation with God, often arguing and calling for his intervention to save the writer or to save Israel. At times, the psalmist sounds selfish, like a demanding child, calling on God for special attention, even when the psalmist acknowledges his own shortcomings. He pleads for God's help, he tells God what to do, he rails against his enemies, he generally feels sorry for himself. Elsewhere, the psalmist glorifies all that God has done, both in his power over creation but also in guiding and saving the people of Israel throughout their history. This is my take on the 150 poems that comprise the Psalms. By no means a faithful translation, rather an interpretation of other versions, put in my own voice. A poetic response to the call they make to our worship and prayer.
Download or read book My Words Are Lovely written by Robert L. Foster and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays advances psalms studies through a concerted focus on the persuasive aim of psalmic poetry, and it offers unique perspectives on rhetorical devices within the psalms. These essays include discussions not only of structure, literary devices, and rhetorical strategies, but the authors also dialogue with classical rhetoric, modern psalms research, and current trends in rhetoric and cognitive science. Part One discusses various theoretical issues. Several articles discuss lament within the psalms, including the function of appeals to pathos, lament's compensation for monotheistic piety, and the need for more attention to the laments' poetry and rhetoric to understand their meaning. Other essays address the psalmists' self-presentation, the ideological identity of the wicked within the psalms, faunal imagery with regard to tenor and vehicle, the topoi related to God in call to praise psalms, the function of gaps in prayers for help, and the rhetoric of kingship psalms as attempts to persuade readers of the legitimacy and efficacy of kingship. Part Two consists of rhetorical analyses of several psalms or psalm pairs, each with distinctive emphases. These include a discussion of Psalm 8 from a bodily perspective, the nature and implication of nature language within Psalm 23, the structure of Psalm 102 within Book IV of the Psalter along with its theology and lament, the forensic case of Psalms 105 and 106 emphasizing the role of narrative in forensic rhetoric and comparing the results with classical rhetoric, and an analysis of the rhetorical aim of Psalm 147, subjected to developments within cognitive science.
Download or read book Praise Thanksgiving Lament and More With the Psalms for Our Times Songs Now We Too Can Sing written by Sylvia P. Masters and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Want to praise God, but don't know what to say? Pray "The Psalms" How powerful You are! How great is Your strength! Your kingdom is founded on righteousness and justice; love and faithfulness are shown in all You do. Psalm 89:13-14 * Want to thank God, but your words don't seem enough? Pray "The Psalms" I will always thank the Lord; I will never stop praising Him. I will praise Him for what He has done; ... Proclaim with me the Lord's greatness; ... Psalm 34:1-3 * Feel the need to cry out to God in times of sorrow? Pray "The Psalms" Come and save me, Lord; in Your mercy rescue me.... I am worn out with grief; every night my bed is damp from my weeping; my pillow is soaked with tears. I can hardly see; my eyes are so swollen... Psalm 6: 4, 6-7 THE PSALMS "FOR OUR TIMES" pray "The Psalms" to our God in a more meaningful and personal way!
Download or read book The Quotidian Mysteries written by Kathleen Norris and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this insightful and deeply personal work, Kathleen Norris, an award-winning poet and author of both Dakota: A Spiritual Geography and The Cloister Walk, draws on her life experiences, her poetry and her love of the Benedictine tradition to discuss the mysterious way that the daily or "quotidian" can open us to the transforming presence of God." "This volume is the text of the 1998 Madeleva Lecture in Spirituality, sponsored by the Center for Spirituality at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book The Psalms and Lamentations written by Richard Green Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Psalms as Christian Lament written by Bruce K. Waltke and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psalms as Christian Lament, a companion volume to The Psalms as Christian Worship, uniquely blends verse-by-verse commentary with a history of Psalms interpretation in the church from the time of the apostles to the present. Bruce Waltke, James Houston, and Erika Moore examine ten lament psalms, including six of the seven traditional penitential psalms, covering Psalms 5, 6, 7, 32, 38, 39, 44, 102, 130, and 143. The authors -- experts in the subject area -- skillfully establish the meaning of the Hebrew text through careful exegesis and trace the church's historical interpretation and use of these psalms, highlighting their deep spiritual significance to Christians through the ages. Though C. S. Lewis called the "imprecatory" psalms "contemptible," Waltke, Houston, and Moore show that they too are profitable for sound doctrine and so for spiritual health, demonstrating that lament is an important aspect of the Christian life.
Download or read book The Cloister Walk written by Kathleen Norris and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “Vivid, compelling... An embrace of moral and spiritual contemplation.” –The New York Times “A remarkable piece of writing. If read with humility and attention, Kathleen Norris's book becomes lectio divina, or holy reading.” –The Boston Globe From the iconic author of Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith, a spiritual journey that brings joy to the meanings of love, grace and faith. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered on a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and scripture? This is the question that poet Kathleen Norris asks us as, somewhat to her own surprise, she found herself on two extended residencies at St. John's Abbey in Minnesota. Part record of her time among the Benedictines, part meditation on various aspects of monastic life, The Cloister Walk demonstrates, from the rare perspective of someone who is both an insider and outsider, how immersion in the cloistered world-- its liturgy, its ritual, its sense of community-- can impart meaning to everyday events and deepen our secular lives. In this stirring and lyrical work, the monastery, often considered archaic or otherworldly, becomes immediate, accessible, and relevant to us, no matter what our faith may be.
Download or read book Psalms 73 150 written by Federico G. Villanueva and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commentary on Psalms 73–150 provides an exposition that the reader can engage with in their own community of faith in the Asian cultural context. Along with a commentary on each Psalm, Dr. Federico G. Villanueva provides cultural reflections on a wide variety of relevant topics that include, “The Challenge of Lament to Asian Christians” and “Psalm 109 and the Filipino Concept of Pagsusumbong.” The Asia Bible Commentary Series empowers Christian believers in Asia to read the Bible from within their respective contexts. Holistic in its approach to the text, each exposition of the biblical books combines exegesis and application. The ultimate goal is to strengthen the body of Christ in Asia by providing pastoral and contextual exposition of every book of the Bible.
Download or read book NKJV Study Bible Full Color written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 2246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 2 million copies sold, it's no secret that the NKJV Study Bible is a reliable guide for your journey into God's Word. This beautiful full-color Bible provides a complete resource for study, including thousands of notes, articles, extensive cross-references, and features contributed by top evangelical scholars. These multilayered study tools, combined with the accuracy and clarity of the New King James Version, make this Bible a perfect choice to help you understand and deeply engage with Scripture. Features include: Over 15,000 verse-by-verse study notes Bible times and culture notes Word studies with Strong's numbers Extensive cross-reference system In-text maps and charts Book introductions, outlines, and timelines Full-length articles, a concordance, and color maps Clear and readable Thomas Nelson NKJV Comfort Print®
Download or read book The Book of Psalms for Singing written by Crown and Covenant Publications and published by . This book was released on 1973-12-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psalm Conversations written by James O. Chatham and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2018-07-18 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psalms’ insights are remarkable, unexpected, eye-opening. They have vital things to say to us if we listen intently to the ancient wisdom, much of which has been lost to modern ears. Using the insights of the “shape and shaping of the Psalms” work done by Psalms scholars over the past twenty-five years, James Chatham presents an inviting study for nonexperts to explore the interactions that various psalms have with one another. The book invites us to listen in on several psalm conversations, to realize how contemporary they are, and to join them. Chatham encourages us to immerse ourselves in the mind, heart, and world of the Psalms editor, to get to know those editors well, and to realize that their world was, in important ways, very much like ours. Through this process, the messages spoken by the Psalms editors emerge with words of faith about everyday issues in human living, both then and now.
Download or read book Feasting on the Word Year C Volume 4 written by David L. Bartlett and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this new lectionary commentary series, Westminster John Knox offers the most extensive resource for preaching on the market today. When complete, the twelve volumes of the series will cover all the Sundays in the three-year lectionary cycle, along with movable occasions, such as Christmas Day, Epiphany, Holy Week, and All Saints' Day. For each lectionary text, preachers will find four brief essays--one each on the theological, pastoral, exegetical, and homiletical challenges of the text. This gives preachers sixteen different approaches to the proclaimation of the Word on any given occasion. The editors and contributors to this series are world-class scholars, pastors, and writers representing a variety of denominations and traditions. And while the twelve volumes of the series will follow the pattern of the Revised Common Lectionary, each volume will contain an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers, as well as teachers and students, may make use of its contents.
Download or read book Nelson s New Illustrated Bible Commentary written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1999-05-13 with total page 1863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive verse-by-verse commentary for lay Bible students, fully highlighted by articles, maps, charts, and illustrations-all in one volume. Clear and Comprehensive: Annotations by leading evangelical scholars don't dodge tough issues; alternative views are presented fairly, but commentators make their positions clear. Attractively Designed: Graphics appeal to the sound-bite generation and others who aren't traditional commentary readers. Interesting and Revealing: Hundreds of feature articles that provide additional information or new perspectives on a topic related to Bible background. Visually Appealing: Maps, drawings, and photos illuminate the commentary and visualize important information.
Download or read book Nearing a Far God written by Leslie Leyland Fields and published by NavPress. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience Transformation When You Pray the Psalms with Your Whole Self Feeling hopeless? Lonely? Anxious? Do you want to experience the presence and love of God through every joy and struggle of life? Do you long to enrich your prayer life and grow your relationship with God? The Psalms will guide you into fresh encounters and a lasting deeper attachment to God. You may have read or studied the Psalms. In Nearing a Far God: Praying the Psalms with Our Whole Selves, you'll experience the Psalms in fresh, personal, and life-changing ways: Discover how the Psalms can draw you into dialogue with God no matter your pain, struggle, or doubt Practice transformative writing and prayer exercises that engage and impact the whole brain and the whole self Reclaim ancient practices of movement and bodily postures to heighten your worship and deepen attachment to God Masterful teacher and award-winning author Leslie Leyland Fields has helped thousands of God-seekers around the world experience spiritual breakthroughs by expressing their life stories through the lens of Scripture. Whether you read and practice Nearing a Far God on your own, with a local group, or with a cohort organized by Fields, you too can experience profound change, hope, and the always near presence of a loving God.
Download or read book Vast As the Sea written by Samuel Hildebrandt and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetry of the Old Testament articulates the painful experiences of being human. Vast as the Sea shows how texts like Job, Jeremiah, and the Psalms provide honest and healing expressions for life's struggles. This book is a rich resource for scholars and readers of the Bible, as well as for psychologists and pastoral counselors.
