Praying (reading) the Psalms with a modern martyr, pastor, theologian, and Christian thinker

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	• My Soul Finds Rest Dietrich Bonhoeffer Zondervan, 2002 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Praying (reading) the Psalms with a modern martyr, pastor, theologian, and Christian thinker

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INTRODUCTION:

I have to admit to you, the Psalms never excited me. Besides the handful key verses from Psalms (e.g. 119:11), the rest of the Psalters were too melo-dramatic for my taste (too much talk about enemies, sorrow, despair). Reading Bonhoeffer's thoughts on the glory and splendor of God, of our Savior and Messiah has been a very humbling and teaching experience.

Recently (2006) published as "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Meditations on Psalms" (identical content).

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For me, the Psalms came alive, with spiritual father Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer memorized, meditated, and drew a deep spiritual manna from the Psalms. Now I have a better appreciating for why the Orthodox liturgy (based on St. John Chrysostom - the gold mouth, and St. Basil) is infused with Psalm verses (Psalmody) and whole passages, and why the Psalms have been known across the centuries in the West as "the he treasury of the Church's finest prayers" (Psalters).

Now when I read, pray, and sing, the Psalms I make sure to use a Bible that has titles and notes (explanatory and devotional) for each Psalm.

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"The only way to understand the Psalms is on your knees, the whole congregation praying the words of the Psalms with all its strength." --Dietrich BonhoefferAt the time of his execution by the Nazis in 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was not quite forty years old. Yet already, his influence as a theologian was felt not only in Germany but throughout the world. His interactions with the Psalms reveal a passionate heart and a brilliant mind grappling with the Bible?s eternal truths and their application to human nature and temporal realities. My Soul Finds Rest is vintage Bonhoeffer: eloquent, incisive, encouraging, challenging, inviting us to find in the Psalms both a path toward repose in God and a call to Christlike living and practical action as followers of the Lord Jesus.

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