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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...

and yet they are more than that. Athanasius wrote that the Psalms ‘have a unique place in the Bible because most of the Scripture speaks to us, while the Psalms speak for us.’10 They are not the same as other prayers prayed by believers down the generations; they are Bible prayers. They are not just response; they are authorised response, the words God gives us with which to speak ‘up’ to Him. They are ‘the word from God to be spoken to God’. In other words, they teach us to pray. In Luther’s Preface
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