6 Reasons You Need the Songs of Jesus
In this excerpt from his new book, The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms, Tim and Kathy Keller explain why the Psalms should be a regular part of our devotional and study time.
“The psalms were the divinely inspired hymnbook for the public worship of God in ancient Israel (1 Chron. 16:8–36). Because psalms were not simply read, but sung, they penetrated the minds and imaginations of the people as only music can do. They so saturated the heart and imagination of the average person that when Jesus entered Jerusalem it was only natural that the crowd would spontaneously greet him by reciting a line from a psalm (Mark 11:9; Ps. 118:26).”