Week four

This week we will be completing Study 2 Meditation 2. Just to let you know, our friend Kimberly will no longer be participating in this group. She is extremely busy with her ministry obligations and has opted out for now.

Post from Laurie

Laurie had trouble with her password this week and asked me to post the following:

"I like TK's method for having us praying through the Psalms. Psalm 133 reminded me again of our church body and being thankful for each of them and how we work together. And in light of what we have been studying in Romans, to be appreciative of them and to tell them that. Not faint praise, but genuine thankfulness for their gifts, how they serve others and how they have impacted my life. So, let me say that I am thankful for each of you!"

Week Three- Psalm 1 (Study 1; Mediation 1)

Hello everyone--- this is week three and now our study is going to really take off!! Please complete Study 1/Meditation 1 on Psalm 1 this week. Post as often as you like throughout the week as you work through this.  Psalm 1 is one that many of us have memorized, but if you haven't yet, I challenge you to do so. Keep one another in prayer this week as we get into study in ernest now. Be sure to look at the participant guide and also the leader's guide for added comments and insight.

Week Two- Monday Jan. 17-Sunday Jan. 23, 2011

I realize that some of you had some difficulties getting logged in this week. For sure, you must type your password in again after the google account asks for your username (which should be your email). Laurie, I will have to check , but I think I have your old Cook Engineering email in the system (perhaps that is one reason why you had difficulties).

Anyway, hopefully things will sort themselves out this week. For this week's assignment please read the Introduction part 2 pages 13-16 and try the exercises associated with it. Blog any time you like during the week.
We should all be checking the comment section daily to keep track of each other's thoughts. As well, I encourage you to pray for all of us in the group with respect to our spiritual development through this study.

from Kimberly

Quite an interesting introduction to a breat body of literature. First and foremost, I would have to say that I am deeply saddened by the fact, that, as the authour points out, we, in the West do not engage the psalms because we avoid the raw reality of the psalms, we try and present a "modern, up to date face" and avoid the mentions of Christ and frankly because the theological illiteracy of the West makes it difficult to understand. I am deeply grieved by this because of what Keller points out later--that prayer is generally answering speech. So, these prayers, however we may read them with modern ears, are actually people's responses to the initiatives of God.
What does this say about my personal walk with God--if my prayers are indeed responses to God. Much to digest---and certainly no time to hurry through prayer. I think the idea that we can go deeply intor ourselves through the psalms and we have to deal with God as God is--are a rebuke to my own heart to spend more time in listening to God. I am hoping that next week as I take a week of retreat with my fellow pastors that I can spend some time listening to myself pray, listening to God, and somehow figuring out how my prayers are a response to God's initiative. I hope this will therfore give me a really accurate view of where my heart is actually at in relation to God. If you remember me, please pray that this will be so for me.

Another test !!!!

Week One

Hello ladies:
This week read through Introduction part one and try the exercises at the end. Throughout the week you are welcome to blog as much as you like, but for sure try to put your thoughts down by Friday or Saturday at the latest so that we can get into discussion before Monday rolls around for the next assignment.