Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it

invites us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is going to be the first of a four-part series on the podcast.

These are four teachings that I did a number of years ago when I was a pastor at Door of Hope

on the Book of Psalms.

We took a whole summer and explored the Book of Psalms as a church community learning

how to see in these poems and prayers a language that can teach us how to pray and how

to talk to God.

I remember when I was a brand new follower of Jesus and I quickly fell in love with the

Book of Psalms.

I just never read much poetry before period and just these poems and prayers, they were

so intense when people's emotion and anger and gratefulness towards God, the full range

of emotions.

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