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Resources for the psalms
I've posted a few times in the last week about the difficulty of preaching from the psalms. I maintain that they are not easy Bible passages to expound well, especially as we seek to faithfully proclaim Christ from all the Scriptures. Here's a book I've found remarkably helpful in thinking about understanding the psalms well and knowing how to preach them. It's Geoffrey Grogan's Prayer, Praise and Prophecy. Geoffrey died recently, but this volume is a great testimony to his love of the psalms and his desire that they be taught faithfully. This is what Dale Ralph Davis says about it:
Grogan has digested a mass of Psalms research and yet releases it in the most palatable and useful doses. I profited immensely from his treatment of the literary design of the Psalter; he helps us see in the psalms a consciously coherent work in five books rather than random bits of poetry. If I were teaching a course on the psalms, this would be my textbook.
It's hardback, and therefore not cheap. But what you will find between the boards is worth its weight in the coinage you will disburse.