Arms Around the Psalms (2)

There are three short words we never stop needing to say to God: Please, Thank You, and Sorry, and it turns out the Psalter is full of all three. This teaching walks through the lament psalms with their five-part shape you can pray for the rest of your life, the thanksgivings that teach us to be the one leper who came back, and the penitentials, where David's Psalm 51 shows us what real repentance sounds like. Along the way you'll meet the one psalm that ends in unrelieved darkness and discover why the Spirit put it there, and you'll watch Paul plant a lament right in the middle of the most triumphant chapter in the Bible, where suffering saints become more than conquerors. The whole evening comes down to one liberating truth: we can be real with a real God.