Majestic is Thy Name: Devotions from the Psalms

by John Zehring

Overview

“Majestic is Thy Name” contains 150 uplifting meditations and prayers, one for each Psalm. The book mines gems from the Psalms to pilot the reader into an encounter with the Divine. Praise and thanksgiving are key themes in the Psalms, raising the bar for our own prayers. The reflection for each Psalm provides language, lyrics, illustrations and quotations to lead us into a relationship with God with heighten praise. The Psalmist also speaks frequently of his enemies, which reminds us that it is in our valleys, challenges and difficulties that God is our refuge and our strength in times of trouble.

The title of the book comes from the beautiful praise to God found in Psalm 8: “O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is thy name in all the earth!” So many of the Psalms are about our personal I-Thou relationship with God, yet the Psalms lift us up out of our self-centeredness to a God-centeredness. The Psalms inspire us to initiate our day and elevate our thoughts with praise and gratitude to God, our Creator. The Psalms inspire us as people of faith to seek to know God better and to love God more.

If you have ever enjoyed the privilege of watching a potter working with a lump of clay on the potting wheel, you would have witnessed the potter investing a great deal of time and skill to center the clay. If the clay does not begin by being centered, anything the potter creates will be off kilter. So too with your spiritual life. It is worth it to you to invest your best early morning or late evening time by centering your thoughts upon the treasures which have come to us though the Psalms.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156036479
Publisher:	John Zehring
Publication date:	04/01/2019
Series:	Spiritual Growth
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	543 KB

About the Author

John Zehring has served United Church of Christ congregations as Senior Pastor in Massachusetts (Andover), Rhode Island (Kingston), and Maine (Augusta) and as an Interim Pastor in Massachusetts (Arlington, Harvard). Prior to parish ministry, he served in higher education, primarily in development and institutional advancement. He worked as a dean of students, director of career planning and placement, adjunct professor of public speaking and as a vice president at a seminary and at a college. He is the author of more than sixty books and is a regular writer for The Christian Citizen, an American Baptist social justice publication. He has taught Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Educational Psychology and Church Administration. John was the founding editor of the publication Seminary Development News, a publication for seminary presidents, vice presidents and trustees (published by the Association of Theological Schools, funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment). He graduated from Eastern University and holds graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary, Rider University, and the Earlham School of Religion. He is listed in Marquis' WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA and is a recipient of their Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. John and his wife Donna live in two places, in central Massachusetts and by the sea in Maine.