What if the Psalms are not only prayers for comfort, but a pathway toward healing, belonging, and secure love? In this introductory episode, John shares the heart behind this series: praying the Psalms in order, with Jesus, as a wounded community learning to tell the truth, receive God’s love, and come home to our identity as children of God.
This series grows out of a daily practice of praying the Psalms together in community. The Psalms are not treated as isolated poems or private devotional fragments, but as a prayer book with a formational movement. Prayed in order, they carry us through fear, grief, anger, shame, trust, praise, and longing, helping us bring our whole selves into the presence of God.
In each episode, we listen for where the Psalm stands in the larger movement of the Psalter, how the Messiah’s voice can be heard within it, and what this prayer can form in an individual, family, church, or wounded community. We pray the Psalms as Jesus’ prayer book, allowing the “I” of the Psalm to become the voice of Christ, and then receiving our own lives into his prayer.
Each episode also moves toward the Spirit of Adoption and the Lord’s Prayer, the prayer Jesus gave to the whole family of God. Together we learn to bring our real needs, our real feelings, our longing for rescue, and our desire to participate in unconditional love.
These are the Prayers that Bring us Home.
May the Peace of Christ walk with you
on your long journey home.
We are all going home together.
Amen.