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The Psalms Shelf - Praying the Songbook God Gave Back to Him
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items The Psalms are the church's own prayer book - every human weather prayed out loud and handed back to us as homework. This shelf covers the praying of them, the understanding of them, and the big books you keep within arm's reach of the chair.
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Praying the Psalms
Understanding the Psalms
The Big Books by the Chair
Praying the Psalms
Devotionals that put a psalm a day in your hands: Keller, Peterson, Bonhoeffer, Ortlund.
Tim Keller's Songs of Jesus walks one psalm a day for a full year - a reading, a meditation, and a prayer to pray back. The devotional that teaches the songbook by singing it slowly.
The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms
Eugene Peterson's Answering God treats the Psalms as the school where prayer is learned rather than performed - nine psalms studied as a curriculum of response. For pray-ers tired of their own scripts.
Answering God: The Psalms as Tools for Prayer
Bonhoeffer's little Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible argues the church prays Christ's own prayers when it prays the Psalter - written before his imprisonment, proven inside it. Ninety-eight pages, no filler.
Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible: Bonhoeffer
Dane Ortlund's In the Lord I Take Refuge gives a short devotion for every one of the 150 psalms - the whole songbook at reading pace, with a pastor's gentleness. The finish-line-able Psalms project.
In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions through
Understanding the Psalms
The guides: Lewis reflecting, Wright arguing, Taylor unafraid, Ash teaching.
Lewis's Reflections on the Psalms is the beloved amateur's guide - praise, judgment, and the psalms that curse, handled with his usual clarity and nerve. The book that sends you back to the text smarter.
Reflections on the Psalms: Lewis, C. S.: 9780062565488
N. T. Wright's Case for the Psalms argues the songbook is meant to reshape the church's whole life - sung, prayed, and inhabited, not just studied. A short book with a reformer's agenda.
The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential
W. David O. Taylor's Open and Unafraid walks the Psalms' full emotional range - anger, lament, joy, thanksgiving - and gives each its dignity. The Psalms guide for honest pray-ers and the artists among them.
Open and Unafraid: The Psalms as a Guide to Life, (Paperback)
Christopher Ash's Psalms for You is the teaching guide of the shelf - structure, Christ, and application for preachers and study groups. From the Good Book Company's For You series, built to be taught from.
God's Word for You: Psalms for You: How to Pray, How to Feel and How to Sing (Paperback)
The Big Books by the Chair
Spurgeon's life's work, Calvin's devotions, and the Psalms themselves in KJV.
Spurgeon's Treasury of David is the Prince of Preachers' life-work on the Psalms - exposition, illustration, and a choir of older voices quoted on every psalm. The abridged one-volume edition is the one that actually gets read.
The Treasury of David (Abridged)
Heart Aflame draws a daily reading for a year from Calvin's Psalms commentary - the reformer at prayer, warmer than his reputation. A year of Geneva in five minutes a morning.
Heart Aflame: Daily Readings from Calvin in the Psalms
A standalone KJV Book of Psalms is the songbook on its own - all 150, nothing else, in the translation this shelf's older authors prayed from. Verify the edition is KJV on the page before it earns this slot; if the Nelson edition cannot be verified, ...
The Book of Psalms (KJV)