This past Sunday, Pastor Chris preached on Psalm 22a powerful and deeply prophetic passage. While Psalm 22 is a psalm of lament, it also belongs to a group of writings often called the Messianic Psalms. These are Psalms that not only anticipate the coming of the Messiahthe anointed King of Israel who would restore all thingsbut also foreshadow specific events in ...

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Below are three ways 1. Slow Meditation and Prayer First read a psalm all the way through. Get a feel for what kind of psalm it is. Is it about praise? Is it a lament? Is it a psalm of thanksgiving for blessings, or is it a declaration of faith through difficulty? Is it calling down God's justice on wickedness or is it asking for mercy for his own sin? Just get a feel...

One book I keep coming back to when I read the Psalms is The Message of the Psalms by Walter Brueggemann. It's not a long book, but it helped me see something that really stuck: not all Psalms are the same. Brueggemann says the Psalms fall into three big categoriesorientation, disorientation, and reorientation. That might sound a little academic, but here's how I've come ...