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Life Lessons with Max Lucado: Book Of Psalms

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This is the first of Lucado's studies that we have used. This book rocks. I am most impressed by the diversity of disciplines utilized as Lucado helps us look at the Psalms. As believers, the format of the book encourages us to read, pray, journal, contemplate and listen for God's voice on a weekly basis. The topics covered are easily accessible to Christian and PreChristian alike. Our small group has been greatly helped by this understandable, yet weighty study.

As a pastor, I am very interested in theology but sometimes I have trouble applying it to the daily lives of my parishoners. I bought this book hoping it would help bridge that gap.

When the book arrived, I was disappointed because it contained very little background information. Lucado does not help the reader understand what each Psalm meant in its original context.

Instead, he encourages the reader to look inward and focus on his/her own experience with the text. Much of the book consists of pages that look like notebook paper where the reader can fill in his/her thoughts.

Despite my reservations, I decided to try it out with my Wednesday morning Bible study. Several members commented they "didn't get anything out of it" so I started writing my own my Bible study using Craigie's commentary on the Psalms (published by WORD.)

By the way, Craigie's commentary is excellent.

I am a Sunday School teacher for young adults at a Cumberland Presbyterian Church. I have read Max Lucado's books for over 20 years and used his Life Lesson series to teach my class. This is probably the fourth or fifth of them that I have used and it is just as good as all the others. Very good analysis of the scripture, but in layman's terms. Then good probing discussion questions and a challenge for the week. I would recommend it for personal or group study for all adult ages.

I recently ordered this book for a Bible Study group at my church. They have been using this series and could not get it here in town. The lessons are current and easy to understand and perfect for any size group.
They are very pleased about this book.

The descriptions of books is not always clear. I love reading the Psalms and that is all I wanted. I prefer the NIV and NKJV of the Bible but this uses the New Century Bible. I was not aware that it was a Bible study. Max Lucado is an excellent teacher and I have enjoyed many of his works. I am disappointed in what I received as I only wanted a book of Psalms for reading.