150: Finding Your Story in the Psalms - Softcover

Adams, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592555608 ISBN 13: 9781592555604

Publisher: Faith Alive Christian Resources, 2011

Synopsis

Sung, whispered, shouted, and groaned by Muslims and Jews, Protestants and Catholics, Bob Marley and J. S. Bach, the Psalms express the faith of a thousand generations. People have used psalms to voice their deepest anguish and delight, to comfort others, to express emotions they hardly dare to admit.

In this book Kevin Adams shares stories of unlikely psalm prayers and an unpredictable God, opening up the honest and earthy world of the psalms in new and unexpected ways. And he invites us to find our own story within that community of faith.

Reading this book you will find yourself underlining an especially poignant verse here or jotting notes in the margin there, as the psalms come alive through the stories of those who have used and abused them through the centuries.

About this title

About the Author

Kevin Adams is the founding pastor of Granite Springs Church in Lincoln, California--a community learning to pray their faith and doubt by way of the psalms.

Review

"The psalms are like the gift of tongues; they are the way the Spirit gives us words when we don't know how to pray. The psalms give us prayer language for elation and lament, praise and doubt, fear and hope. What a gift! This marvelous little book is also a gift, inviting us to see the psalms anew-as an ancient prayer book that speaks poignantly to our postmodern context. Far from some dusty old collection of 'religious' prayers, the psalms are gritty, honest encounters with the living God. A wonderful resource." --James K.A. Smith, Professor of philosophy at Calvin College, Author of "Desiring the Kingdom" and "Letters to a Young Calvinist"

"John Donne, Kanye West, Leonard Bernstein, Metallica, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Seinfeld, the God of the psalms-they're all here in their own words. If you can't find yourself in this amazing tour of life, you aren't yet fully human. If C. S. Lewis were a 21st-century California church planter, he would write this book." --Neal Plantinga, Author of "Engaging God's World"

"The highest compliment I can pay to this book is after I finished reading it I was eager to preach on the Psalms again." --Haddon Robinson, Harold John Ockenga Professor of Preaching, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

"John Donne, Kanye West, Leonard Bernstein, Metallica, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Seinfeld, the God of the psalms-they're all here in their own words. If you can't find yourself in this amazing tour of life, you aren't yet fully human. If C. S. Lewis were a 21st-century California church planter, he would write this book." --Neal Plantinga, Author of "Engaging God's World"

"The highest compliment I can pay to this book is after I finished reading it I was eager to preach on the Psalms again." --Haddon Robinson, Harold John Ockenga Professor of Preaching, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary

Edition details

• Publisher: Faith Alive Christian Resources
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1592555608
• ISBN 13: 9781592555604
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272