Soul Anatomy: Finding Peace, Hope, and Joy in the Psalms
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
How do you worship when you’re depressed? Where do you find words to express inexpressible joy? What do you pray when you need to rest?
Soul Anatomy is a biblical guide for working through emotional turmoil in a gospel-centered way. By working through the Psalms from beginning to end, men and women will find a God-authored script by which to express every category of the human experience.
The Bible’s inspired hymnbook guides believers through the highest summits and lowest troughs of life and invites the not-yet believer to a Redeemer who ultimately experienced all of the emotions of these prayers in his incarnation.
Author George Robertson enables readers to find a sympathetic Savior in the Psalms who experienced every human emotion, and he helps men and women see the God-inspired vocabulary for expressing every feeling to the Father.
Soul Anatomy helps men and women respond to the love of God in all the ways the psalmists do: spiritually, vocationally, physically, and volitionally. As divinely inspired prayers, God offers the vocabulary he welcomes from us when we do not know how to pray.
Discover the heart of Jesus through the prayers of Jesus, the high priest who can sympathize with us.
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- Enables readers to find a sympathetic Savior in the Psalms
- Serves as a biblical guide for working through emotional turmoil in a gospel-centered way
- Shows how the Psalms serve as a God-authored script by which to express every category of the human experience
- The Truly Happy Person (Psalm 1)
- I Know His Hands (Psalm 5)
- Deliverance from Depression (Psalm 6)
- Justice for the Desperate (Psalm 7)
- The God You Can Know (Psalm 17)
- The Victorious Death (Psalm 22)
- I Believe . . . The Lord Is My Shepherd (Psalm 23)
- Four Prayers, Four Promises (Psalm 25)
- When Accused (Psalm 26)
- Waiting Confidently (Psalm 27)
- Thy Kingdom Come (Psalm 35)
- When Life Gets to You (Psalm 37)
- Life under Heaven (Psalm 49)
- Pardon for Sin and a Peace That Endures (Psalm 51)
- The Light of Life (Psalm 56)
- Surviving a Surprise Attack (Psalm 64
- Backward Praise (Psalm 65)
- Come and See What God Has Done (Psalm 66)
- The Church Is for Weaklings and Nobodies (Psalm 68:1–18)
- The Church Made Strong (Psalm 68:19–35)
- Life under the Cross (Psalm 70)
- The Real World (Psalm 73)
- What to Do with Anger (Psalms 129, 137, 140)
- He Loves You (Psalm 139
The Psalms are unique in the Bible as the book in which every possible human condition is depicted, along with the right way to pray oneself through the circumstance. How do you deal with betrayal, disappointment, personal failure, prosperity, adversity? In every case the Psalms instruct us on how to process the situation before God. George Robertson's work on the Psalms brings out this life relatedness. Evangelical Protestants, to their great loss, are not as familiar with the Psalms as are other branches of the Christian church. This will help remedy that. I recommend it!
—Tim Keller, Chairman, Redeemer City to City
In this wonderful book, George Robertson has provided a veritable gold mine of insights for anyone looking to grow in their knowledge of and relationship to God. If you are looking for a devotional book on the Psalms that carefully balances faithful interpretation and pastoral application, look no further. I know I will be using this book to help me not only grow as a Christian, but also minister as a pastor and professor.
—Julius J. Kim, President, The Gospel Coalition
Dr. George Robertson has made a career of loving, reading, preaching and writing about the Psalms. He has preached through the entire book multiple times, and this collection from his messages well reflects the wisdom of a psalmist, the understanding of a scholar, and the heart of an experienced pastor. What a privilege to read this distillation of decades of pastoral experience and pulpit excellence used to share the poetic insights and gospel spirit of the Hebrews’ hymnal.
—Bryan Chapell, Senior Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church, Peoria, IL