A Psalms ‘taster’

Posted on June 1, 2025 
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“Friends in Christ, recently a younger new friend has started reading the Bible, and had read some New Testament books, some of the Gospels, and some of the Letters. He’d also begun in Genesis. But I wanted to encourage him to read the Psalms. After all, the Psalms are really the song book of Jesus. That’s what all Jewish people in his era would have grown up knowing, and often singing.

But there are 150 of them! And although there is structure to the chapters, and some important themes and groupings, they don’t have an unfolding narrative that’s necessarily obvious.

So for better or worse I decided to pick just 15, 10% of the total, as a kind of introductory highlights orientation tour for my friend to read over a few times, before hopefully going on to read all 150 later on. …”

– Dean of Sydney Sandy Grant writes in the Cathedral newsletter.