This month's blog highlights Dr. Bill Fullilove, the upcoming professor of Poets at ITS this J-Term. In his essay, Dr. Fullilove discusses how to helpfully dive into the Psalms. He shows us the power of the poetry for our hearts along with our minds, and he helps protect our reading of the Psalms from expecting what they never intended to communicate.
Read MoreEvery Christian loves the Psalms. Even those who do not particularly like poetry, or have the patience to grapple with it, still find moments in the Psalms that resonate within their soul. Our love and enjoyment of the psalms, in turn, lead to prayers seasoned with the words of the psalmist. Yet the Psalms are not merely a collection of pithy one-liners for the spiritually desperate. In this recent essay, Dr. Nicholas Piotrowski shows readers how the psalter is more than a collection of isolated poems, but one epic poem of New Creation.
Read MoreLast year we had a class on the Poets taught by Dieudonné Tamfu. I sat in on a few classes and learned so much in just those classes alone. Then this summer I taught a seminar overviewing the entire Bible in a handful of sessions. I was particularly thrilled to teach on the Psalms that day because I was eager to apply all I learned from Dr. Tamfu and in my subsequent study. I hope this video is as encouraging to you as it was to me in preparing it and teaching it. I try to delineate the structure of the entire book, and articulate the main idea of the book when viewed as a complete work. …
Read MoreDr. Dieudonné Tamfu (Jubilee Community Church and Bethlehem College & Seminary), who recently dissertated on the book of Psalms, was in town to speak earlier this month on the Psalms! His explanation of the movement through the Psalms opened my eyes to details I had been overlooking. “Illuminating” and “extremely edifying” are the words that come to mind as I look back on those lectures.
I’m thrilled to post the lectures here for our September blog. Listen and savor Jesus in the Psalms!
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