Released in the UK July 2024
Released in the US July 2024
Trade paperback | 144 Pages
9781527111363 • £8.99 $12.99
BISAC – REL012120
Heart Songs for Every Saint
Engaging with God Through Times of Darkness & Light
William J. U. Philip
Psalms should be used as prayers
Every circumstance of life
Six examples show how they can be applied to everyday life
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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Christian Focus
With commendable honesty about life in the real world, these expositions are wonderfully God–centred … This is Biblical preaching at its best – exegetically profound, pastorally warm–hearted and truly Christ–exalting. It did my heart good!
David Jackman
Past President, The Proclamation Trust, London
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
I think that is Willie Philips’s design with these Psalms: to give us a taste and hook us on the Psalms. No dodging nasty questions, nothing superficial here; just solid, ‘thought–full,’ nourishing exposition in perfectly lucid prose. (And don’t you dare pass up his treatment of Psalm 88).
Dale Ralph Davis
Author and Old Testament Scholar
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