Category: Lessons

Wait on the Lord

• Lesson 13 for the week of March 23 to March 30

Leading Question: Stories often have an arc. There is tension, and the story draws us along because in the unfolding of each story, we see a bit of ourselves and what it means to be...

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Worship That Never Ends

• Lesson 12 for the week of March 16 to March 23

Leading Question: What does it mean to bless God? What does it mean to receive a blessing? Scripture Focus: Psalm 104, Psalm 103, Deuteronomy 6:13, Psalm 96, Psalm 98 The Big Idea: Praise is the...

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Longing for God in Zion

• Lesson 11 for the week of March 9 to March 16

Leading Question: WFor you or people close to you, what is a place that is tied to spiritual experiences or memories of connection with God? Scripture Focus: Psalm 84, Psalm 125, Psalm 122, Psalm 46...

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Lessons of the Past

• Lesson 10 for the week of March 2 to March 9

Leading Question: What role do stories about the past play in equipping people to navigate life with all its twists and turns? Scripture Focus: Psalm 78, Psalm 105 The Big Idea: Knowing where we come...

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Blessed is He Who Comes in the Name of the Lord

• Lesson 9 for the week of February 24 to March 2

Leading Question: Covenant relationship is a thread that winds throughout the biblical literature, conceptualized in a variety of ways. What does it mean to say humans are in covenant relationship with God? Scripture Focus: Psalm...

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Wisdom for Righteous Living

• Lesson 8 for the week of February 17 to February 24

Leading Question: What is wisdom? Scripture Focus: Deuteronomy 28, Psalm 128, Psalm 90, Psalm 137 and 138 The Big Idea: It is usually books like Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes that are described as “wisdom literature.”...

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Your Mercy Reaches Unto the Heavens

• Lesson 7 for the week of February 10 to February 17

Leading Question: When do we as humans need God’s mercy? Scripture Focus: Psalm 57:9, 10, Psalm 136, Psalm 51 The Big Idea: The covenant loyalty of God is a theme that runs throughout the Bible,...

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I Will Arise

• Lesson 6 for the week of February 3 to February 10

Leading Question: What does it mean when God stands up? Scripture Focus: Psalm 12:5, Psalm 18, Deuteronomy 15:7-11, Psalm 96, Psalm 99 The Big Idea: The writers of the Psalms understood God as a divine...

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Singing the Lord’s Song in a Strange Land

• Lesson 5 for the week of January 27 to February 3

Leading Question: Have you ever had something asked of you that felt like an insult, a misunderstanding of who you are and what matters most to you? What was this like for you? Scripture Focus:...

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The Lord Hears and Delivers

• Lesson 4 for the week of January 20 to January 27

Leading Question: What is it like to be truly and deeply heard? Scripture Focus: Psalm 34, Exodus 2:23-25, Exodus 3:7-8, Psalm 17:8, Psalm 44, Psalm 80 The Big Idea: Throughout the Bible, God is described...

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The Lord Reigns

• Lesson 3 for the week of January 13 to January 20

Leading Question: In the Bible, God is depicted in a variety of ways, with imagery from kingship, priesthood, motherhood, and many more arenas. What messages about God and God’s relationship with humanity are communicated by...

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Teach Us to Pray

• Lesson 2 for the week of January 6 to January 13

Leading Question: What messages have you received over the course of your life about what prayer is? How did you learn how to pray? Scripture Focus: Psalm 23, Daniel 2:20-23, Psalm 44, Psalm 22, Psalm...

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How to Read the Psalms

• Lesson 1 for the week of December 30 to January 6

Leading Question: Robert Alter, in his book The Art of Biblical Poetry, argues that “poetry is not just a set of techniques for saying impressively what could be said otherwise. Rather, it is a particular...

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Introduction

• Introduction

The book of Psalms could be described as the most eclectic and diverse collection found in the Bible, and this collection has served as a centerpiece in individual and collective worship for thousands of years....

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