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Nathan Bierma
catapult magazine
March 2007
We tend to focus on the gospels during Holy Week, and appropriately so. But I never realized how meaningful the Psalms are for remembering Christ's suffering until I reflected on two resources we developed at the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship: a series of worship services called Psalms for a Lenten Journey, and a new book by John D. Witvliet called The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship.
I was surprised by how many echoes of the Psalms there are in the week before Christ's death. And I was struck that part of the failure of the travelers on the road to Emmaus to recognize Jesus is their failure to recognize him in the Psalms: "Everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms," Jesus tells them, "must be fulfilled." With this theme in mind, and these materials in hand, I've been reflecting on the Psalms this season of Lent, and preparing to hear their echoes during Holy Week.
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