Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, we're introducing a brand new resource, the gospel one psalm at a time.

In this new study, Paul wants to dive into the Bible's hymn book with you and savor

the grace of God in fresh ways for the next year.

Today we're going to listen to the first two episodes of this new study, and in this

first segment, Paul gives an overview of the Bible's hymn book.

Here's Paul.

Well, every year with these gospel, one chapter of time Bible studies, we look at one portion of the Word of God and we spend an entire year of studies in that one portion.

And this year, we're going to spend our time in the Psalms, one of the largest and most

significant portions of the Word of God.

And so we want to begin with some introductions to the Psalms.

You can wrap your brain around what is this portion of God's word about.

Well, the first thing I want to say is the Psalms provide for us the Bible's hymn book.

I don't know if you've thought about this or not, but God designed and created human

beings to sing. We're singing people. We sing when we're happy. We sing when we're sad. We sing when

we're celebrating. We sing political songs. We sing at birthdays. We sing at we're celebrating. We sing political songs.

We sing at birthdays.

We sing at funerals.

We sing at holidays.

Old people sing, young people sing.

And so it makes sense that God would dedicate a portion of his word to singing to songs.

We're told in the scripture to sing unto the Lord.

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