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Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing is unavailable, but you can change that!

What if the way we worship isn't just an expression of our faith, but is what shapes our faith? The Church has believed this about the way we worship and pray together for centuries: The way we worship becomes the way we believe. But if this is true, it’s time to take a closer look at what we say and sing and do each week. Drawing from his own discovery of ancient worship practices, Glenn...

writes in his marvelous book Answering God that just as we learn to speak by being spoken to, so we learn to pray by praying back to God the words He has spoken to us. Peterson isn’t talking about some crazy “word from God” you “received” about winning the lottery; he means praying the Psalms. Drawing on the parallel between the structure of the Torah—God’s Word to Israel—in five books, and the Psalter as Israel’s response to God, also ordered in five books, Peterson invites us to see the Psalms as instructions
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