{"id":138032,"date":"2025-06-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138032"},"modified":"2025-06-24T18:42:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:42:47","slug":"tuesday-food-for-thought-luther-on-the-psalter-the-spirits-summary-of-the-whole-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138032","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday food for Thought&#8211;Luther on the Psalter: the Spirit\u2019s summary of the whole Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201c<em>The Psalter should be precious to us if only because it most clearly promises the death and resurrection of Christ, and describes his kingdom, and the nature and standing of all Christian people. It could well be entitled a \u201cLittle Bible\u201d since everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended, and compacted into\u2026a Manual. It seems to me as if the Holy Ghost had been please to take on himself the trouble of putting together a short Bible\u2026touching the whole of Christianity\u2026in order that they who are unable to read the whole Bible may nevertheless find almost the whole sum comprehended in one little book\u2026the Psalter is the very paragon of books.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<b>Reading the Psalms with Luther: The Psalter for Individual and Family Devotions<\/b> (St. Louis: Concordia, 2007), cited by yours truly in the Sunday sermon<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;We do not become righteous by doing righteous deeds, but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.&quot;<br><br>-Martin Luther <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5BxJeMCoHL\">pic.twitter.com\/5BxJeMCoHL<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reformed1563 (@Heidel_bro1563) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heidel_bro1563\/status\/1937575559141425374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Psalter should be precious to us if only because it most clearly promises the death and resurrection of Christ, and describes his kingdom, and the nature and standing of all Christian people. It could well be entitled a \u201cLittle<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138032\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-history","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138036,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138032\/revisions\/138036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}