Lent with Jesus, Week 3: March 13/14, 2022
Lesson
Psalm 38 Responsive Reading Text
Additional Resources
Confession and Self-Examination Guide (Posted for Week 2)
Weekly Lenten Prayers (Collects) (Posted for Week 2)
Overview (Posted for Week 1)
Chapter: Book 1
Book 1, Psalms 1-41
Lent with Jesus, Week 2: March 6/7, 2022
Lesson
Psalm 32 Responsive Reading Text
Additional Resources
Confession and Self-Examination Guide
Weekly Lenten Prayers (Collects)
Psalms 24, 50 and 146
Presented December 19 and 20, 2021
This is the overview of the three-week Psalms of Advent class, December 2021.
Download or view the PDF outline here.
For Monday Psalms, November 15, 2021
Book 1 of the Psalms(Psalms 3-41) reveals our human condition of limitation and our struggle to trust the steadfast love and power of the LORD. It is dominated by Psalms “of David” in which the psalmist is constantly beset by problems, difficulties, trials—most often at the hands of others who are determined to make life difficult for him, though sometimes he makes his own trouble. (Psalms 32 and 38 are penitential.)
Prepared for Monday Psalms, November 1, 2021
Prepared for Monday Psalms, August 30, 2021
Video for Session 8 of Truthful Speech for Common Prayer: Jesus and the Psalms.
Our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ was the perfect worshiper of God and lover of people, the most authentic and genuine human who has ever lived. He knew and prayed the Psalms, even with his dying breath. He models the Psalms’ transformative power and use in an open, submitted human heart. He died for our sins and our wounds so that his heart and all of our hearts, his brothers and sisters (That’s us!), can be one in him.
Prepared for Psalms Group held on 7/18/21
The Psalms teach us about honest dialogue between us and our Creator. Honest dialogue means we express and explore our trust and our doubt; “I believe; help my unbelief.”
Psalm 37 is a collection of sayings that might easily be found in the book of Proverbs. Appearing random at first glance, these sayings are a carefully constructed alphabetic acrostic Hebrew poem, crafted with creativity and artistry. It teaches how to live well, how to live the “good life” of flourishing and blessedness in the reality of the inequities of life.
Prepared for Psalms Group, May 16, 2021
Here’s a summary of the paper I mentioned in the last e-mail. It places Psalm 23 in the grouping of Psalms 15-24.
Prepared for Psalms Group, March 21, 2021
Psalm 38 is an individual lament included as one of the 7 penitential psalms (6, 32, 51,102, 130 and 143). Its superscription states in Hebrew: “A David of psalm, to bring to mind.” This Hebrew infinitive lehazkir , “to bring to mind,” also appears in the superscription to Psalm 70, a psalm that is replicated in Psalm 40:14-18. (Alter, Psalms, 134)