My Psalms class starts tomorrow! I'm looking forward to it. This first session is going to be my guinea pig--figuring out how to manage my time in teaching, testing how to facilitate discussion, and just seeing how many people are going to show up. I'm using Bonhoeffer's Prayerbook of the Bible, Brueggemann's Praying the Psalms, a book my dad co-wrote called Preaching the Psalms, and plenty of other resources. I really want to figure out how to keep people creatively engaged with the content. That'll be easier in later classes--music and poetry can easily be made interactive, and the one on prayers of vengeance will hopefully spark discussion--but I want to make sure that even in this first one, which is more of an intro/overview, I can get people talking or contributing in some way. I found a Psalms journal in Barnes and Noble the other day that looks really neat, and I found it on sale online, so I'm gonna take orders from folks who might be interested in that approach. The journal pulls sections of Psalms to fit certain themes and provides space to write and reflect on each group. Plus it's just plain pretty. :) I heart journals. Anyway, Val also lent me the Psalms planning guide from The Efird Bible Study Series, which should be helpful.All right, I've been at Dilworth Coffee for a while; I figure I should go to the church.
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