Following Jesus in the Psalms

Posted in Faith and Spirituality on 10. Aug, 2010

Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and follow him, and he makes a striking provision for us in the Psalms to do so. The Psalter—in its own way as much as the Gospels—sums up Christ’s life and work while also making that life and work something with which we can identify in a [...]

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Praying the hours

Posted in Faith and Spirituality on 13. Aug, 2009

When you read the scriptures, you not only learn about the content of prayer (giving thanks, etc.), but you also notice the discipline of it, the regularity of it. As I covered in a post last week on prayer and the workday, Daniel and the Psalmist both pray three times a day, morning, noon, and [...]

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