Teaching your Church to love the Psalms
One of my greatest regrets in life is not getting to grips with the Psalms until much later. Actually, that's probably not entirely accurate, unlike Frank Sinatra my regrets are not too few to mention. But I digress. What I mean is that I wish the Psalms had been a staple diet in the Churches I attended both singing and reading but they played a tiny role, if any, in my upbringing. I wish I had decades of reading and singing the Psalter. Playing catch-up is difficult when you struggle to remember what you went into the kitchen for; so memorising these poems, songs and prayers is hard, really hard. But I've been wondering how can I help my church to love the Psalms? The first thing is to preach on them. That's probably a given. The way I approach them is to preach mini series in-between other series, with an occasional odd one thrown into the mix (okay not ideal as they have been deliberately arranged in order) and I deliberately cross reference from the Psalms as I pre...