Studying The Psalms

Welcome to our study of the Psalms. Several years ago I undertook to study the Psalms – one chapter per week – yes, I knew that that would take about three years, but what else was I going to do for the next three years! 🙂 It proved to be a very fruitful study and my Bible is filled with notes. A few years after that, I taught a short summer study at my local church, and we went through a Psalm a week for 14 weeks. Now, I’ve decided to teach those Psalms (and maybe beyond 14 lessons) from my home study and upload the videos to YouTube. I will post the links to those studies here as I do them. If you would like to be added to an e-mail list to know when those are added, please see my contact page (or you can just follow this blog). Also if you have questions feel free to contact me. The contact information can be found on the Contact Page

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If you want to study on your own – this is the outline I used for the church study – I may or may not be following this – but I think it is a helpful outline.

Psalm Study Sheet

Look for what kind of Psalm it is. Is it a Messianic Psalm; a teaching Psalm; a joyous Psalm; a lamenting Psalm; a Psalm of praise, worship, or celebration or something else entirely?
What feeling does it evoke: joy; peace; comfort; awe; worship; fear; another?
Look for references to the past; the present; and the future. (May differ due to translation used.)
Determine who is speaking, the psalmist or God.
Does anything in it or about it remind me of Jesus?
What did I learn about God from this Psalm?
What other scriptures or hymns come to mind as I read this?

How can I “pray” this Psalm?