The Lord is My Strength
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Begin or continue your journey toward God with the wisdom of the Psalms.
In his introduction to The Lord Is My Strength, Eric Kampmann places the psalms at the epicenter of the biblical narrative. Implicitly, the psalms weave all the way back to the creation story, forward to the advent of Jesus, and beyond to the end of times. And within this epic scope, the psalms tell the story of each one of us: our hopes, our dreams, our fears and conflicts in a way that ignites our imagination, providing a full and deep picture of who we are as we live day to day in our own time and place.
The Lord Is My Strength was originally envisioned as a book of morning prayers posted on social media. But it quickly became more than that when Kampmann began posting a photograph and a short commentary along with the passage from the psalms. The result is a new book that will speak through words and pictures of the beauty, harmony and mystery that has been gifted to everyone who has the desire to see where they stand in God's story.
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Kampmann (Getting to Know Jesus), founder of Midpoint Trade Books, aims to help readers develop, or maintain, a daily practice of meditation and prayer in this lively but uneven offering. Each entry features an evocative psalm; a color-saturated image of wilderness areas, wildlife, or a religiously significant destinations (such as Israel's Holy Land and Spain's Camino de Santiago) that complements the selection; and a brief devotion of 50 or fewer words written by Kampmann. Unfortunately, the insightful meditations are overshadowed by an unfocused collection of prayers, Bible verses, random thoughts ("The wars of the last century were built on assumptions of technological invention and scientific genius, resulting in more killing, not less"), and personal experiences. Some devotions read more like minilectures on arbitrary topics, among them atheism, the godlessness of Silicon Valley, and characters from F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. While the book of Psalms combines both praise and lament, Kampmann focuses mostly on the latter, repeatedly warning readers to lead a more godly life or suffer dire consequences. As a result, Kampmann's overall negative spin on even positive verses may leave readers feeling more admonished than encouraged. Unfortunately, the eye-catching photography and chosen passages of poetic inspiration from the psalms fail to save Kampmann's hodgepodge of musings.
