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A conversation with Mark Charles and John Witvliet on the Lord's Prayer.
Reflect on this discussion (posted as five short videos on YouTube) of the Lord’s Prayer and the invitation to consider each petition of the prayer as a promise and invitation from God to God’s people to grow into new forms of perception and obedience.
(1) Our Father in Heaven: Growing into the Prayer Jesus Taught Us
(2) Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done: Growing into the Prayer Jesus Taught Us
(3) Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread: Growing into the Prayer Jesus Taught Us
(4) Forgive Us Our Sins: Growing into the Prayer Jesus Taught Us
(5) Lead Us not into Temptation: Growing into the Prayer Jesus Taught Us
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
Pastor-scholar Andrew Wilkes shares how his worshiping community, Double Love Experience Church, prayed and sang the psalms during the troubling times of 2020. The psalms gave them language and support for praise and lament, and Wilkes asserts that lament is the evidence of faith because we are bringing our troubles to God.
Author and pastor-scholar David Taylor shares how he came to appreciate the psalms and how he encourages people to bring their full, unedited selves to God in prayer and experience a richer and more honest life of faith.
Old Testament scholar Nancy deClaissé-Walford has spent her career studying the ordering of the Psalter. Most of the psalms, she says, are not tied to a particular situation, allowing us to sing and pray them honestly in our own contexts.
A Psalm Talk by Jared E. Alcántara recorded at the 2026 Psalms 150 conference, with a visual prayer and embodied response from artist Dea Jenkins.
