Since January 2023, I have been leading a weekly Bible study named Mining the Psalms. Prior to then, I just knew that I loved the Psalms and that they spoke to and satisfied every feeling I ever had.
Anyone is welcome. A few who toughed it out with me in the beginning still show up, and some have come only once. We have added and lost. Some women came for a season, and I’m glad we were able to help them get through a confusing time. Some just love the Bible. I do not like Bible studies that in my opinion treat women like elementary school children. We have busy lives! So no homework or buying books and with an emphasis on fellowship.
Every week I am studying a new Psalm; every word is worthy of mining. Amazing how the situations spoken of and the emotions provoked have not changed in the roughly 2500 years since the ancient words were scratched onto parchment. Before the end of this year, we will have covered all 150. In my efforts to become familiar with the psalm at hand, I read, watch and listen to pastors and scholars. Each of them has a different emphasis, showing the depth and richness of the word
We could probably start anew, and it would all be fresh.
This is my favorite version (NASB 1977) of Psalm 127 that was Tuesday’s psalm. It begins, “Unless the LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it.”
