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The Man of Psalms

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The Man of Psalms

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Book Introduction

The Essence of Psalm Meditation by Pastor Kim Young-bong in "Prayer of Fellowship"
“It shows the appearance of a pastor wandering the night sea to rescue believers who have been driven into the darkness at the end of the sea.”
Recommended by Kim Ki-seok (Cheongpa Methodist Church), Kim Hoe-kwon (Soongsil University), and Cha Jun-hee (Hansei University)

Kim Young-bong, author of "Prayer of Fellowship," which has generated significant buzz with its outstanding diagnosis and profound reflections on the prayer culture of the Korean church, presents a commentary on the entire Book of Psalms and a collection of meditations.
This book, which took six years to write and complete, first reveals how the author himself was transformed through the Psalms, and encourages people to become Psalm-like people and move forward into the community of the Psalms.
This book, a concise compilation of a lifetime of theology and insight, shines with the author's characteristically warm writing style and profound yet friendly commentary and meditation.

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Opening remarks
About the Psalms

Book 1: Psalms 1-41

Psalm 1: A Life of Eating the Word
Psalm 2 Who is the King?
Psalm 3: A Day That Begins with Faith
Psalm 4: The Power of Peace
Psalm 5: God of Justice
Psalm 6: Close your eyes and see
Psalm 7: God's Anger Every Day
Psalm 8 Thoughts on God
Psalm 9: The Just Judge
Psalm 10: A Prayer for the Absurdity of Reality
Psalm 11: When Faith Wavers
Psalm 12 With one heart and in truth
Psalm 13 When You Can No Longer Trust God
Psalm 14: The Ground We Must Stand On
Psalm 15: Those Who Dwell in the Tabernacle of the Lord
Psalm 16: Our Most Shining Legacy
Psalm 17: Life with the Lord
Psalm 18: A Prayer for Success and Prosperity
Psalm 19: The Life of a Full-Time Worshiper
Psalm 20: The Anointed One
Psalm 21: A Prayer of Thanksgiving for the King
Psalm 22: The Suffering of the Messiah
Psalm 23: Ultimate Love
Psalm 24 In God's Presence
Psalm 25 When Relationships Go Wrong
Psalm 26: Right Direction and God's Grace
Psalm 27: One Wish
Psalm 28: A Prayer of Reversal
Psalm 29 To Him Whom Glory and Honor Are Given
Psalm 30 When I am at ease
Psalm 31: Trust and Love
Psalm 32: The Joy of Forgiveness
Psalm 33: Reasons for Praise
Psalm 34: Taste and Know God
Psalm 35: A Prayer for the Betrayed
Psalm 36: Sin is a Power
Psalm 37: Those Who Will Inherit the Land
Psalm 38: Honesty Before God
Psalm 39: The Traveler and the Stranger
Psalm 40: The Power of Waiting
Psalm 41: How to Walk the Path of Faith

Book 2: Psalms 42-72

Psalm 42: When We Cannot Gather in Person
Psalm 43: God, my great joy
Psalm 44: A Rude Prayer
Psalm 45: Hidden Identity
Psalm 46 I am God!
Psalm 47: The Coronation of My Heart
Psalm 48: The Living Temple
Psalm 49 Memento Mori!
Psalm 50: True Worship
Psalm 51: True Repentance
Psalm 52 God is alive!
Psalm 53: A Reason Not to Fear
Remember Psalm 54!
Psalm 55: When You Experience the Pain of Betrayal
Psalm 56: Who dares…
Psalm 57: Faith that Breaks the Darkness
Psalm 58: God Who Unties All Knots
Psalm 59: Prayer is a Decision
Psalm 60: In the Face of Crisis
Psalm 61: A Call to Live
Psalm 62: Be Silent Before God
Psalm 63: What is more precious than life?
Psalm 64 God Sees!
Psalm 65: Echoes of the Gospel
Psalm 66: When we pass through the night of doubt and unbelief
Reasons for Choosing Psalm 67
Psalm 68: The Most High descends to the lowest places
Psalm 69: Honest Prayer
Psalm 70: Why We Cry for Salvation
Psalm 71 Even if it becomes useless
Psalm 72: God's Righteousness, God's Shalom

Book 3: Psalms 73-89

Psalm 73: True Blessing
Psalm 74: Why There Is No Hope
Psalm 75: The Cup of Wrath
Psalm 76: Why We Worship
The Power of Meditation on Psalm 77
Psalm 78: Grace Wins
Psalm 79: Our Hill
Psalm 80: True Restoration
Psalm 81: A Life Like a Festival
Psalm 82: The Usefulness of Power
Psalm 83: God Stands on the Side of the Weak
Psalm 84: A Heart on a Pilgrimage
Psalm 85 Until That Day Comes
Psalm 86: Following God's Character
Psalm 87: Not as Exiles, but as Worshippers
Psalm 88: A Prayer of Despair
Psalm 89 In the midst of dire reality

Book 4: Psalms 90-106

Psalm 90: God's Eternity and Human Momentum
Psalm 91: Naive Expectations
Psalm 92: Rejoicing in Worship
Psalm 93: God Reigns
Psalm 94: God's Avenging Power
Psalm 95: Living in the Most Holy Place
Psalm 96 He has come!
Psalm 97: God of Justice and Fairness
Psalm 98: A Heart for God
Psalm 99: Absolute Holiness and Absolute Love
Psalm 100: Knowing God
Psalm 101: A King's Prayer
Psalm 102: When in distress
Psalm 103: Love for Fleeting Beings
Psalm 104: God Who Creates and Rules
Psalm 105: Why We Remember History
Psalm 106: The Covenant Is Our Only Hope

Book 5: Psalms 107-150

Psalm 107: God's Goodness and Loving Kindness
Psalm 108: The Power of Prayer
Psalm 109: Prayer is a Process
Psalm 110: In Him We Trust
Psalm 111: Awakening to Eternity
Psalm 112: The Blessing of the Pious
Psalm 113: The Lord Comes to the Lowly Places
Psalm 114 God's Territory
Psalm 115 Where Is My God?
Psalm 116: How the Hasidim Live
Psalm 117: Attitudes toward Transience
Psalm 118 Every Day is a Holy Day
Psalm 119: Living by the Law
Psalm 119:1-40 A Prayer for a Blessed Life
Psalm 119:41-80 The Benefits of Suffering
Psalm 119:81-120 Why We Hold on to God's Word
Psalm 119:121-160 Love for Him and Love for Our Neighbors
Psalm 119:161-176 The Desire for Power
Psalms 120-134: Song of the Pilgrims on their Way to the Temple
Psalm 120 In a Spiritual Foreign Land
Psalm 121: God Who Keeps Us
Psalm 122: The Holy City
Psalm 123: Living as an Exile
Psalm 124: Living by Grace
Psalm 125: I put down the scepter in my hand,
Psalm 126: No Giving Up!
Psalm 127 Under the Hand of the Almighty
Psalm 128: Where Peace Comes
Psalm 129: A Man Who Cannot Be Affected
Psalm 130: In the Deep Waters
Psalm 131: The Spirituality of the Weaned Child
Psalm 132: An Eternal Kingdom, Eternal Citizenship
Psalm 133: The Blessing of Unity
Psalm 134: The First Priority
Psalm 135: Worship Like It
Psalm 136 Just be thankful!
Psalm 137 By the Rivers of Babylon
Psalm 138: God, though high, regards the lowly
Psalm 139: God's Meditation
Psalm 140: The Tongue That Is Sharp Like a Serpent
Psalm 141 When Facing Temptation
Psalm 142 When the soul is imprisoned
Remember and consider Psalm 143
Psalm 144: The Leader We Want to See
Psalm 145: Why God Deserves Praise
Psalm 146: God's Descending Nature
Psalm 147: Reasons to Praise
Psalm 148: Cosmic Praise
Psalm 149: Praise, the Two-Edged Sword
Psalm 150 First and last, Hallelujah!

The Man of Psalms
The Community of Psalms

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Into the book

The book of Psalms has been the greatest help to me in my struggle with spiritual darkness.
During that period, I read the Psalms aloud three or four times a day and offered them up as my own prayers.
I don't know how many times I've slapped my knees in awe while chanting, meditating, and praying like that.
As I read and prayed, the psalm I opened that day became the answer to the question I had been struggling with the day before, and one day I confessed, “Yes, Lord! This is my prayer.”
The vocabulary and expressions of the Psalms have permeated my prayers, speech, and writing.
This has been the strongest force that has pulled me out of spiritual darkness.
--- p.14, from “Introduction”

Each psalm reflects every situation an individual may experience in his or her life.
At the same time, it reflects the experience of the Israeli faith community.
For this reason, the Psalms are suitable for individuals to read and meditate on in their private rooms and offer as their own prayers, and they are also a 'common prayer book' suitable for the worship community to pray in unison.
The recitation of psalms in a place of worship resonates deep within the soul.
And that psalm creates the spirituality of the community of faith.

--- p.21, from “On the Psalms”

We, living in a written age, enjoy many advantages over people in the oral age.
But the convenience of no longer having to memorize has actually been detrimental to our spirituality.
Because I no longer do the work of memorizing the Word and putting it into my heart.
The Word is always outside of me.
If you need a word, you should open the Bible.
On the other hand, people in the oral tradition stored the words in their hearts.
So I was able to always live with the Word.
That is what allowed them to live firmly rooted in God's land.
--- p.29, from “Psalm 1_A Life of Eating the Word”

This psalm contains the deepest insights into the attributes of God and human nature.
So Pascal and Dante quoted this psalm, and Mr. Yoo Young-mo of Dasuk wrote down the number of days he lived in his diary, following the 12 verses.
The most important thing in life is to know God the Creator and to stand before Him and reflect on ourselves.
Only then will you know who you are and how to live.
At that time, finite and fleeting life is connected to the eternity of God.
--- p.314, from “Psalm 90: God’s Eternity and Human Moments”

The Twelfth Pilgrim's Song is one of the shortest psalms, but also one of the most profound.
This describes the inner state and attitude toward life of a person who has realized who God is and has completely entrusted himself to Him.

The words, “Lord, now I have given up…” (v. 1) mean that they did not do so ‘in the past.’
Until man finds himself in God, he lives as if he were God.
“A proud heart” refers to a heart that does not acknowledge God.
It is the mind that cannot acknowledge the limitations of creation and wants to live as the master.
Such a person goes on the “path of arrogance.”
That heart knows no satisfaction and does not acknowledge its limitations.
They want to do amazing things and prove who they are.
--- p.451, from “Psalm 131_The Spirituality of a Weaned Child”

Being a person of the Psalms is not about enjoying blessings in this world.
Rather, we are led to a life of self-invited suffering in this world.
Yet, the reason we long for that life is because it is a life that lives in heaven on this earth and reaches heaven when we die.
Also, because I believe that it is what saves me and, through me, saves my neighbors.
For this reason, if you are a person of faith, you should become a person of the Psalms and hope to live like one.
So today and tomorrow, I hope to start the day by reciting and meditating on the Psalms, to live as a person of the Psalms, and to die as a person of the Psalms.
--- p.507, from “The Man of Psalms”

The Psalms should resonate in the worship of the community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer advises not to select only the so-called graceful psalms and recite them, but to read the entire psalm in order.
In fact, gathering together as a community to recite the curses is a rather confusing and uncomfortable thing.
But there is a reason the editors included that psalm.
Only by reading and meditating on it can we become a community of the Psalms.
In this sense, it is necessary to restore the reading of the Psalms as an important part of worship.
We must guide worshippers to understand the meaning of the reading of the Psalms and participate wholeheartedly.

--- p.510, from “The Community of Psalms”

Publisher's Review

The greatest prayer book,
Moving forward through the Psalms, becoming a people of the Psalms, a community of the Psalms!

“Because I have experienced how blessed life is to live with the Psalms.
“I wrote this book to share that grace.” - Kim Young-bong

This is the latest work of Pastor Kim Young-bong, a representative preacher with the heart of a shepherd and the mind of a scholar, and covers everything from an overview of the Psalms to commentary and meditation on Psalms 1-150.
How did the author, who led countless readers into a deeper relationship with God through gentle yet sharp insights and seemingly ordinary yet extraordinary messages, read and meditate on the Psalms? This book begins with the author's personal experience of overcoming profound spiritual darkness through the Psalms.
Let us delve into the vast world of the Psalms, following the author's guidance that "singing and meditating on the Psalms is a process of allowing God to shape us."
Not only will you discover yourself changing through the Word, but you will also be able to catch your breath in the midst of your struggling reality, lift your eyes, and fix your gaze on God, the Creator.

Psalms are life

Calvin called the Psalms a "mirror" because they reflect the diverse emotions of human beings.
This is because the Psalms, like a mirror, reveal all the emotions encountered in human history, including joy and sorrow, despair and hope, confidence and doubt, victory and defeat, without any addition or subtraction.
For this reason, the Psalms have been loved for thousands of years, and have been called various names such as the Bible within the Bible, the anatomy of the soul, the treasure of the Bible, and the essence of the Old Testament.
The world of the Psalms, which has been recited and read by countless people, including pioneers of faith like Luther, Calvin, and Bonhoeffer, and passed down from generation to generation, is deep and vast.
This is because it encompasses not only individual prayers but also prayers offered by nations and communities, covering almost every situation an individual can experience in human history.

For those experiencing the dark night of the soul

The author's exquisite meditations and commentary on the Psalms, gleaned over many years, are captivating to read in his characteristically easy and concise style.
This book, a new concept commentary and meditation guide that can be easily referenced by both pastors and laypeople, does not sacrifice either scholarship or popularity.
The author himself is a primary reader of the Psalms, and offers commentary based on solid academic research and the fruits of deep meditation. This book is for pastors who find it difficult to devote much time to the study of the Word, as well as for all believers who are living the hardships of life.
It can be used for personal meditation, one chapter per day, but it is also great for reading together in small groups or church communities.

Towards the People of the Psalms, the Community of the Psalms

This book is a manuscript that the author has matured over the past six years by meditating on the entire Book of Psalms twice at the Washington Fellowship Church where he serves. Each section is an average of three pages long and is developed in the order of title, verse, commentary, and meditation.
The meditations and commentary that unfold as we look at the entire book of Psalms correct misunderstandings about prayer and provide new perspectives to readers who have been selective about the Psalms.
In particular, at the end of the book, the characteristics of the 'people of the Psalms' and examples worthy of being called 'people of the Psalms' are presented, and it is urged to become a 'community of the Psalms'.
In this increasingly precarious modern society, boasting cutting-edge technological civilization, we hope to heed the author's invitation to grow into "people of the Psalms," beautiful, faithful, holy, and true people, so as not to drift adrift.

For readers

- Those who are in the midst of hardship, despair, illness, and loneliness
- Those who want to learn prayer through the Psalms
- For those who want to understand the entire Psalms more deeply
- Seminary students and pastors preparing sermons on the Psalms
- Books for personal meditation and small group sharing
- Books for year-end and New Year's gifts and collections

GOODS SPECIFICS

- Date of issue: January 16, 2024

- Format: Hardcover book binding method guide

- Page count, weight, size: 512 pages | 748g | 145*205*30mm

- ISBN13: 9788932822129

- ISBN10: 8932822123