This year all of our CGs are working through the Psalms, and what a journey we are finding it to be! Eugene Peterson says that the Psalms are us ‘answering God’. It is not prayer in in a vacuum, but it is God’s people hearing God’s good Word in the Law and Prophets and responding to His Ways and His Promise in the Anointed One – the One in whom we take Refuge!

The words of the Psalms, organized through all 150 gems in the collection, are encouraging us not so much to see duty to perform, but to marvel at the LORD God in awe. We are not so much mechanically recounting familiar words and phrases, as we are meditating, thinking, and processing life in the light of God’s promise and our circumstance. We are not just interpreting ancient words from a distance, but incorporating those words into our lives.

Our prayer is that the Spirit of God will take the Word of God & make the children of God here at CCC more and more like the Son of God as we live out this life in Him together!