Within the forty-six books of the Old Testament, there is contained the endearing Book of Psalms. The book is really more of an anthology of prayers of God’s people that were either collected or ...

They Cried to the Lord: The Form and Theology of Biblical Prayer, by Patrick D. Miller (Fortress). Though billed as a study of biblical prayer, this is the most helpful and comprehensive study of the ...

‘King David’, painting by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (il Guercino) c. 1768. (Credit: Wikicommons.) Listen The Lord Jesus warns us against “the blind leading the blind.” If we’re blind and desire to ...

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...