Teaching Psalms, Volume 1: From Text to Message (Teaching the Bible)

by Christopher Ash

Publishers:

Christian Focus; Proclamation Trust

, 2017

Overview

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 difficulties and shows how praying them in Christ does justice to their original meaning and context as well as their place in the whole bible.

Contents

Top Highlights

“But how can sinners sing the song of Jesus the sinless one? How can we join in? The answer is because the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.” (Page 105)

“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.’” (Page 23)

“These introductory Psalms establish two foundational themes right at the outset of the Psalter: God’s law and God’s king” (Page 40)

“The Psalms have a similar ability to take death-giving emotions and turn them into life-giving feelings” (Page 29)

“these formed a significant, and perhaps the main, part of their Spirit-inspired singing” (Page 21)

Product Details

• Title: Teaching Psalms, Volume 1: From Text to Message
• Author: Christopher Ash
• Series: Teach the Bible
• Volume: 1
• Publishers: Christian Focus, Proclamation Trust
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 264
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Psalms › Criticism, interpretation, etc
• ISBNs: 9781527100046, 1527100049
• Resource ID: LLS:TCHPSALMS01
• Resource Type: text.monograph.bible-study
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-10-05T17:13:56Z

About Christopher Ash

Christopher Ash has been a pastor, and is now an author and writer-in-residence at Tyndale House, Cambridge. He was Director of the Proclamation Trust’s Cornhill Training Course from 2004-2015. He is married to Carolyn and they have four children and seven grandchildren.