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Teaching Psalms, Volume 1: From Text to Message is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Psalms can be sung, spoken or read, but they were written to be prayed. Until we pray them from the heart we miss their purpose. If you love, or want to love, or think perhaps you ought to love, the Psalms, this first instalment of a two-volume set on the Psalter is for you. Christopher Ash gives us a practical and theological handbook to equip us to pray and to teach the Psalms. He faces the...

in Book 1, they have no superscription. Almost all the rest are headed ‘A Psalm of David’. Second, each ends with a way that leads to destruction. So ‘the way of the wicked leads to destruction’ (Ps. 1:6); and if you do not ‘kiss the Son’ to show your allegiance, ‘your way will lead to your destruction’ (Ps. 2:12). Third, these Psalms are bracketed by declarations of the man who is blessed. Psalm 1 begins with this: ‘Blessed is the one who …’ (v. 1). Psalm 2 ends with it: ‘Blessed are all who take
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