Talking to God with the Psalms
Four weeks of learning to pray the psalms, inspired by Eugene Peterson's Answering GodBy Small Voice
Length38m
About this audiobook
You know a lot about God. And prayer still comes out polite.
The same phrases, the same register, nothing you'd actually say out loud to a person you trusted.
The psalms are not like that. David tells God the count of everyone against him. He accuses God of sleeping. He asks how long, and doesn't get an answer, and says it again. Somewhere along the way most of us learned that this isn't how you talk to God. The psalms are evidence that it is.
This is a four-week practice for learning to pray them — not read them, pray them. Each day gives you one psalm, a short note on what that person actually brought to God, and one instruction. Then it stops. Two or three minutes, and you're praying in your own words.
The practice comes out of Eugene Peterson's Answering God, which argues that prayer is answering speech and the psalms are the school where you learn it. This guide is one attempt to actually do what he described. If it does anything for you, go read him
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 16, 2021
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Talking to God with the Psalms
20Day 13
2Before you start
21Day 14
3How to use this
22Week Three — The Hard Ground
4A note on Eugene Peterson
23Day 15
5On the psalms
24Day 16
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6Week One — Answering
25Day 17
7Day 1
26Day 18
8Day 2
27Day 19
9Day 3
28Day 20
10Day 4
29Day 21
11Day 5
30Week Four — Your Own Words
12Day 6
31Day 22
13Day 7
32Day 23
14Week Two — Lament
33Day 24
15Day 8
34Day 25
16Day 9
35Day 26
17Day 10
36Day 27
18Day 11
37Day 28
19Day 12
38After this
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