And I Will Praise Him: A Guide to Worship in the Psalms"In an engaging devotional, the author combines warm, inviting wisdom with heartfelt experience as he examines the Psalms, their origin, their language, their form, and their variety to show how they can be used both in personal and corporate worship. Interactive study questions with each chapter allow for easy and meaningful application to everyday life." |
Contents
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Praise on Target | 73 |
How Did We Get the Psalms? | 90 |
Psalm 13 When God Seems Far Away | 150 |
Psalm 138 Why Pray? | 166 |
Psalm 142 A Shriek or a Prayer? | 181 |
Psalm 65 When Creation Sings | 198 |
Psalm 146 While I Live | 214 |
RachelGods Lamb | 225 |
Coda The Breath of Life | 239 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 245 |
Enjoying the Psalms | 109 |
Psalm 113 Hallelujah The Will of God for You | 111 |
Psalm 19 The Wonder of the Word | 129 |
STUDY GUIDE | 247 |
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And I Will Praise Him: A Guide to Worship in the Psalms Ronald Barclay Allen No preview available - 1999 |
Common terms and phrases
acrostic answer beauty believer Bible bless boast Book of Proverbs Book of Psalms C. S. Lewis cave Chapter character choir Christ Christian church command congregation creation Creator David declares deity delight doxology earth element enemy expression faith Father feel forever forget Franz Delitzsch give public acknowledgment Halal Hallelujah heart heavens Hebrew alphabet Hebrew poetry Hebrew word help and hope holy hymns incomparable intensity Isaiah Israel Jesus Kidner King language learned living Lord loyal love means name Yahweh NASB Old Testament poem poets praise is due Praise Yahweh pray prayer prophetic Psalm 19 Psalm 65 psalmist Psalms of lament Psalter R. T. France Rachel response revelation righteous Scriptures seems Septuagint shout silence sing song speaks suggests superscriptions term theology things tion translation trust truth Ugarit verb Westermann wisdom words of Psalm worship write
Popular passages
Page 43 - Tu-whit, tu-who ! a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow, And coughing drowns the parson's saw, And birds sit brooding in the snow, And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whit, tu-who...
Page 214 - LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And, when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures.
Page 107 - I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live : I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
Page 71 - Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul ; Like a weaned child with his mother, My soul is with me like a weaned child.
Page 44 - HE clasps the crag with crooked hands ; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Page 198 - JOY to the world — the Lord is come ! Let earth receive her King ; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2. Joy to the earth — the Saviour reigns ! Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Page 42 - Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November ; All the rest have thirty-one, Except the second month alone, Which has but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine.
Page 18 - He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in him will I trust.
Page 91 - First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, because no prophecy ever came by the impulse of man, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.
Page 129 - I sing the goodness of the Lord, That filled the earth with food ; He formed the creatures with his word, And then pronounced them good.