Praises, Prayers, and Curses: Conversations with the PsalmsAn astonishing plunge into the Psalter resulting in the most amazingly honest conversation with the Psalms encountered in print. Schmidt presents a bold yet refreshing prism of grace on each of the 150 most misinterpreted songs in all of Scripture. Countering the notions of the Psalms as meek, mild, and honey-coated, he tackles the despair and hurt of the psalmists headon, wrestling intimately with some of his own dark places. the result is as if to see the Psalms for the first time-or for the uninitiated, to see in them God's truth and wisdom for his people in all times and seasons. Destined to become a treasure for all who seek to serve God in this confusing and broken world, readers will return again and again, as sharing in the author's encounters will lead them to re-think and re-examine their faith relationship to God. |
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... earth to be a small planet circling a small star , one of billions of stars in a galaxy among billions of galaxies . The suggestion that the Creator of the universe would seek out the inhabitants of this insignificant dot of a place is ...
... earth to be a small planet circling a small star , one of billions of stars in a galaxy among billions of galaxies . The suggestion that the Creator of the universe would seek out the inhabitants of this insignificant dot of a place is ...
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... earth reeled and rocked ; the roots of the mountains shook ; they reeled because of his anger . I lay awake for hours in the equatorial heat . As a boy grow- ing up in the American South , I had known how to deal with such heat — walk ...
... earth reeled and rocked ; the roots of the mountains shook ; they reeled because of his anger . I lay awake for hours in the equatorial heat . As a boy grow- ing up in the American South , I had known how to deal with such heat — walk ...
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... earth reeled and rocked , the roots of the mountains shook ; they reeled because of his anger . " That's what the Lord did for the psalmist when he cried out ; is my discomfort such that I'd want a remedy like that ? Well , I suppose ...
... earth reeled and rocked , the roots of the mountains shook ; they reeled because of his anger . " That's what the Lord did for the psalmist when he cried out ; is my discomfort such that I'd want a remedy like that ? Well , I suppose ...
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... earth is the Lord s and all that is in it , the world and all who dwell therein . I once visited a remote area in eastern Zimbabwe where little rain falls . My guide pointed to a mountain through which an irrigation channel had been cut ...
... earth is the Lord s and all that is in it , the world and all who dwell therein . I once visited a remote area in eastern Zimbabwe where little rain falls . My guide pointed to a mountain through which an irrigation channel had been cut ...
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... , though biblical in origin , leave me cold . I prefer to imagine a scene where heavenly creatures praise God in concert with creatures familiar to me from earth — dragonflies , river otters 62 - Praises , Prayers , & Curses.
... , though biblical in origin , leave me cold . I prefer to imagine a scene where heavenly creatures praise God in concert with creatures familiar to me from earth — dragonflies , river otters 62 - Praises , Prayers , & Curses.
Contents
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Psalms 42 through 72 | 85 |
Psalms 73 through 89 | 145 |
Psalms 90 through 106 | 183 |
Psalms 107 through 150 | 223 |
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Popular passages
Page 56 - One thing have I desired of the Lord, which I will require : even that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the Lord, and to visit his temple.
Page 81 - Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal; for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Page 116 - Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 220 - Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise. 48 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen.
Page 186 - For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday seeing that is past as a watch in the night. As soon as Thou scatterest them they are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 110 - Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. 8 But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Page 63 - Finish then thy new creation ; Pure and spotless let us be ; Let us see thy great salvation, Perfectly restored in thee : Changed from glory into glory, Till in heaven we take our place,— Till we cast our crowns before thee, Lost in wonder, love, and praise.
Page 89 - Send out your light and your truth, that they may lead me, * and bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling; That I may go to the altar of God, to the God of my joy and gladness; * and on the harp I will give thanks to you, O God my God.