This luminous book on texts Jesus knew and quoted is the fruit of the author's lifelong engagement with the Psalms. As a broadcaster and writer, John is loved for being entirely genuine and, in the words of Archbishop Justin Welby, 'his cogent and penetrating contributions reach an audience well beyond the churches'.   
  
Here John explores the Psalms as they relate to daily life, drawing on stories and personal testimonies to help us to rejoice, grieve or draw encouragement from this most extraordinary and fascinating collection of sacred poems and songs.

John L. Bell

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Living with the Psalms

Preface

Acknowledgements

1 The perennial popularity of the Psalms

2 Popular misconceptions

3 What is it about Psalm 23?

4 A vocabulary for pain

5 What is it about Psalm 88?

6 Hot gossip and hard places

7 Malediction

8 What is it about Psalm 137?

9 Just texts

10 So what?

11 Carefully avoided snapshots

12 The language of the Psalms

13 Jesus and the Psalms

14 God and nature in the Psalms

15 Remembering in the Psalms

16 Trusting in the Psalms

17 Deep praise

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This luminous book on texts Jesus knew and quoted is the fruit of the author's lifelong engagement with the Psalms. As a broadcaster and writer, John is loved for being entirely genuine and, in the words of Archbishop Justin Welby, ‘his cogent and penetrating contributions reach an audience well beyond the churches’.   
  
Here John explores the Psalms as they relate to daily life, drawing on stories and personal testimonies to help us to rejoice, grieve or draw encouragement from this most extraordinary and fascinating collection of sacred poems and songs.

\["For Christians wanting to bring the Bible and life closer together","John L. Bell is filled with a life's worth of engagement with the book of Psalms","You have ways of finding hope, encouragement and support from the Psalms"\]

John Bell of the Iona Community has been for many years one of the most recognized voices on BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, where his cogent and penetrating topical contributions reach an audience well beyond the churches.  
\- Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury

The Last Journey:

Few recordings have struck a chord as deep and profound as this heart-rending yetultimately uplifting CD and accompanying book.  
\- GIA Publications

This small, 96-page book and CD is a gem.  
\- Methodist Recorder

Highly recommended as a valuable resource for Readers involved in pastoral work for the dying and especially in funeral ministry, as \[the volume\] shows great sensitivity and insight.  
\- The Reader

Pouring a life's worth of wisdom gleaned from the book of Psalms, John L. Bell shows how we can root our daily lives in the book of Psalms.

The Revd Dr John L. Bell is a member of the Iona Community, an ordained minister and a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thought for the Day’. Over many years, he has consistently been one of the biggest draws at the Greenbelt Festival, and his work as a teacher and speaker takes him frequently into Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia and North America.

In 2018 he received from Justin Welby The Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship, for his outstanding Christian witness, through hymn-writing, broadcasting and social action.

Richard Bland

I really enjoyed this take on the psalms.

John Macadam

I enjoyed this book by John Bell. He really brings a lot of interest out of the Psalms and enables one to read them again with new understanding.

Allan Levack

Profound and inspiring

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