Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Afterword Congratulations on having reached the end of this 150-step walk through Psalms. On this journey we have prayed the Psalms with Augustine and twenty-six of his friends gathered from diverse cultures and centuries. Hopefully you have had opportunity to meet regularly with a friend or group of gospel-coworkers to discuss questions, edify, and encourage one another along the way. In Letters of Faith through the Seasons , James Houston makes a number of interesting observations about letter writing. 1 He emphasizes that writing letters is a way to develop and deepen a culture of friendship. Houston notes that twenty-one of the twenty-nine New Testament books are actually letters to individuals or groups, and that some have described the whole Bible as God’s love letter to us (e.g. Kierkegaard). Houston notes that throughout church history letter writing has remained an important ministry. To this day, we have over nine thousand letters preserved

1 James Houston, Letters of Faith Through the Seasons: December to May (Vancouver, BC: Regent College, 2018).

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