A close friend recently gifted me with “The One Year Book of Psalms: 365 Inspirational Readings.” Her Christmas gift was well-timed; I began reading a psalm and commentary on Jan. 1 as part of my ...

As Christians, we are called to a life of prayer. As we seek to respond to this call and live a life of prayer, we need the set prayers of our tradition, just as we also need the spontaneous prayer ...

The greatest prayer book ever written is contained within the pages of the Old Testament. The Book of Psalms, a collection of 150 prayers, has been esteemed and used as a means and model of prayer by ...

Thank you for participating in our study. Today begins a new installment of last year's “Psalm Summer,” a four-part series so named because I liked the sound of the title. If you missed it last summer ...

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 ...

Thanks for joining Part 4, the last of Psalm Summer 2025, to study Psalm 19, a favorite of mine. Before we begin, let’s review the summer series. On June 29, Part 1 - Vol. 274, featured three popular ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...