Psalms That Can Change Your Life

PSALMS That Can Change Your Life: A Believing Psychologist Explores the Passionate Poems, Prayers, and Songs of the Old Testament - by Stephen H. Farra, PhD, LP. * * * This short book will speak to your mind, as well as your heart. It invites you to come experience the ancient and eternal wisdom housed in the Psalms. It deals with pressing life issues such as the lack of social justice in the world, how to maintain personal righteousness and integrity under the most difficult of circumstances, and how to get and stay above the suffering, chaos, confusion, loneliness, and despair that are frequently a part of our human experience. * * * How can we restore and maintain our mental and physical health when our external world is so often falling apart? The psalms selected for this book help us address this issue in a very direct and meaningful way - by leading us to "the Rock that is higher than I." * * * Individual psalms can provide us with much needed moral guidance, and set us on a spiritual journey toward personal deliverance and deep healing. We'll discuss in some depth the path of life that selected psalms lay out before us. These selected psalms can do more than make us feel good. They can change our lives. * * * But, first, a quick word about what this short book is not. This short book is not and does not pretend to be a complete, exhaustive, or even "representative" exposition of the entire book of Psalms. And, this short book does not attempt to be a volume of systematic theology. It does not try to articulate a comprehensive theology of God, sin, sacrifice, and/or outline God's whole plan of redemption. * * * What this book does try to do is quickly look at the whole collection of psalms, and then focus in on particular psalms, and find in them very personal messages of guidance/counsel, deliverance, and consolation. These messages can prove extraordinarily helpful to those of us who are trying to meaningfully and lovingly live out our lives before our Creator - in these often confusing and turbulent times. * * * The very practical purpose of this short book is to show how the substantial collection of Hebraic poems, prayers, and songs we know as Psalms can help us to actively experience salvation and abiding joy in our everyday lives. * * * The physical and mental health benefits that come through the application and practice of biblical meditation and biblically-consistent Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) are highlighted in several chapters. * * * There is a great deal of biblical and scientifically-derived research embedded in the chapters of this short book. Its insights are designed to be helpful to nearly all believers, at multiple levels.

• | Author: Stephen Farra, Stephen Farra Phd Lp
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Jul 07, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 174 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1721856862
• | ISBN-13: 9781721856862