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Invitation to the Psalms: A Reader’s Guide for Discovery and Engagement is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Psalms is perhaps the most cherished book in the Old Testament. In this lively volume, two experienced teachers invite students to read and explore the Psalter and roam widely among its poems. The book introduces the dynamics of the biblical text, helping students become careful and attentive readers. It covers how to read Hebrew poetry, the Psalter’s basic genres, the idea of “the...

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to you, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer. —Psalm 19:14 These are the final words of Psalm 19. In the psalm itself, the words are appended as a parting prayer, a faithful wish that God might find the psalmist’s poem to be an acceptable offering. In some Christian traditions, these words have often been prayed at the start of the sermon, in the hopes that the preacher’s words might matter—if only in some small way. The
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