Psalm 1: Planted or Passing

Sunday Psalms is a weekly addition to our daily Scripture reading—a deliberate slowing down. While daily readings help us move steadily through God’s Word, Sundays invite us to linger. To listen again. To let a single Psalm shape not just our understanding, but our posture for the week ahead.

The Psalms were written to be returned to, prayed through, and lived with. Giving them a dedicated space each Sunday allows us to rest in Scripture rather than rush through it. This weekly rhythm reminds us that formation requires both faithfulness and stillness.

Psalm 1 stands at the entrance to the Book of Psalms like a doorway. Before there are prayers of praise or cries of lament, before songs of joy or grief, we are first invited to consider a question of formation:

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