How to Pray the Psalms
In God’s Prayer Book: The Power and Pleasure of Praying the Psalms, Ben Patterson offers five suggestions for praying the Psalms.
Worship is Dialogical
John Stott said, “in every well-constructed worship service the pendulum should swing rhythmically between God addressing his people through Scripture and his people responding to him in confession, faith, adoration, or prayer.”
Pain is an Ocean
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen said, “Pain is an ocean with no sign of land. You look around in every direction and find nothing but more pain, as far as the eye can see.”
The Formative Power of Scripture
Rabbi David Wolpe said, “The stories of the Torah, read year after year, wear grooves in our souls…”
False Patriotism
Esau McCaulley said, “Our national tendency to see only the best of America was standing in the way of truly becoming great. [Frederick Douglass] thought enough of this country to tell it the truth. We would be better off if more of us did the same.”
What is Anxiety? A Brain-Based Explanation
Joseph LeDoux, a neuroscientist, describes anxiety as a “conscious feeling” originating in the brain.
Grief Testifies
Nicolas Wolterstorff said, “Grief is existential testimony to the worth of the one loved.”