Dr. Jim Lindsay (contact me @ contactus@timberlinechurch.org).

In the Torah and the Prophets, God reaches out to His human creation. The initiative and the message are His. God communicates; we receive. It is up to us to choose to accept, to obey, to turn a deaf ear, even to reject. In the Psalms, however, human beings reach out to God. The initiatives and the petitions are human; and it is God who chooses to respond or not. As a powerful record of the human quest for God, the Psalms provide the basic patterns of Jewish as well as Christian worship and liturgy. They shape the prayer life and the spiritual activities of both the individual believer and the congregation. In this course we will examine how the Psalter addresses concerns unique to the people of ancient Israel as well as the enduring human desire to connect with and experience the very creator and sustainer of the universe.

This class will take place Sunday mornings @ 10:00 a.m. in room #???.