Hey, this is a year in the Bible with Daily Grace. I am here with Paul. Hey, Paul.

Hi. And we're starting a brand new book today, which we're super, super excited for.

Yes.

It is the book of Psalms. Hopefully the book of Psalms is familiar to you, but we also want to add some context.

Hopefully you learn something new and you're encouraged in your prayer life. I think that's a

big hope we have for the Book of Psalms. Whatever you take away from these episodes,

we'd love for you to leave us a comment, leave us a review, let us know. That helps us know how these episodes are impacting you, and it's just personally really

encouraging to us as well.

Okay, Paul, how are you feeling about entering the book of Psalms?

Yeah, really good.

I love the Psalms personally myself.

They give me words to talk to God in any season of my life like you talked about. I think

they just really enrich my prayer life especially. And I'm also excited for the Psalms just because

they are quoted all over the Bible. And so doing a year-long Bible reading plan like this,

you'll probably pick up some other places where you say, hey, I think I've seen that before.

And it's probably in the Psalms. And so if you have a Bible with cross references, especially, you're going to see a bunch of them in the Psalms, which is pretty cool. Yes, that is so cool. And we'll be sure to point some of those out as we go through this book. Okay, what do we need to know about the book of Psalms as a whole? And this is a long book. We're going to be in it for about a

month here. So what would be good for us to know as we start our month-long journey through this book?

Yeah. So that's a great question. Psalms are basically just songs of worship for the nation of Israel.

And so they're written in a particular context for Israel to sing in a communal context, right? I love the way that

C.S. Lewis describes them. He says, what we said, however, is that the Psalms are poems, and poems intended to be

sung, not doctrinal treatises, nor even sermons. And I think his assessment there is right. They're essentially sung

poems. And so poetry is something that appears all throughout the Old Testament. But the Psalms

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