Searched Me Out and Known Me : Journeying Lent with The Psalms

This is first and foremost a pastoral Lent book, based on an exploration of the Psalms, exploring the following themes: Preparation, Repentance, Reflection, and Sin; Reliance; Lamentation; Sanctification; Abundance; Service; Power; Fear; Doubt; Betrayal; Companionship; Faith and Hope; Watching and waiting; Redemption through love.

‘It is to the Psalms that I encourage you to turn this Lent, as a book of music that can still make our hearts soar, and yet which can accompany us through our darkest moments, too.’In Searched Me Out and Known Me, Charlie Bell offers a soul-enriching devotional study of the Psalms for reading through the season of Lent: once a week on each of the Sundays of Lent, and once a day during Holy Week. In these pages he helps us to appreciate the Psalms as texts to be prayed over and to be prayed with, to be breathed in and breathed out, as music and poetry that calls to our hearts and then to our heads – pointing within ourselves and outward in worship towards God.Each chapter offers a reading from the Psalms and the Gospel reading for the day, a thought-provoking reflection by Charlie, questions for group discussion, and closes with the Church of England’s Collect.