Released in the UK July 2024
Released in the US July 2024
Trade paperback | 144 Pages
9781527111363 • £8.99 $12.99
BISAC – REL012120
William Philip encourages readers to not just admire the Psalms, but use them. Psalms are Spirit–inspired prayers that help us to pray rightly and truly. They give us words we can trust, and treasure as our own heart songs, as we engage with God through times of both darkness and light. Heart Songs for Every Saint takes six of these psalms, and shows how they can be prayed in real life situations.
William J. U. Philip
William Philip has been senior minister of The Tron Church in Glasgow since 2004, and is chairman of Cornhill Scotland, training pastors for expository preaching. Formerly he was director of ministry at The Proclamation Trust in London, and prior to ordination, a doctor specializing in cardiology. He has authored a number of books, including Teaching John (with Dick Lucas), Teaching Matthew (with David Jackman), Why We Pray, Songs for a Saviour’s Birth and Aspects of Love.
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We are able to come to God with heartfelt worship, thanksgiving and devotion, as well as lament and hope. Our spiritual life is enriched by the Psalms with their emotional range and relevance to every season of life.
Sharon James
Social Policy Analyst, The Christian Institute
Following a splendid introduction to the Psalter, this marvellous little book exemplifies the very qualities it identifies in the Psalms. As it takes us through Psalms of protest, penitence, pain, promise pilgrimage and – finally – praise, I found ‘my imagination, stirred my emotions excited and my intellect fed’. It is a wonderful blend of raw human experience, intelligent contemporary insight, and good, old–fashioned heart–warming piety. What a lovely book to own, read and give away liberally.
Richard Cunningham
Former Director, Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF), United Kingdom
… William Philip offers thoughtful meditations on six key Psalms for our reflection and encouragement. It has got me reading the Psalms more, where I have found much comfort and strength. I’m glad I read this book.
Lyndsey Simpson
Wife and Mother
With our feelings and worries so easily all over the place, it is a wonderful thing to read these six expositions of six excellent psalms (’heart songs’) and find anchor. William Philip gives such careful attention to God’s text and such fitting application to His world that I found myself buoyed up again by the truth and grateful for a small book of pastoral help that I can give anybody and everybody.
Simon Manchester
Former Minister, St Thomas’ Anglican Church, Sydney, Australia