WHITE PAPER #4: Concordia’s Treasury of Daily Prayer: Choosing the Psalms

The selection of the psalms for each Day of Treasury of Daily Prayer was headed up by Todd Peperkorn. The Psalmody, consisting of generally 4–10 verses of a selected psalm, is the only component to precede the readings. Editorially and structurally, the psalmody serves the Day as the Introit and Collect serve in the Service [...]

WHITE PAPER #3 part two: Concordia’s Treasury of Daily Prayer: The Psalms in Daily Prayer and the Practice of Daily Prayer

Dr. Stucwisch continues: Now, then, in addition to being the Word of God—and, really, precisely as the Word of God—the Psalms also become the Church’s words of prayer (and a sacrifice of praise), when they are spoken back to God and confessed before the world as words of faith. Indeed, such “confession” (which, if one [...]

WHITE PAPER #3 part one: Concordia’s Treasury of Daily Prayer: The Psalms in Daily Prayer and the Practice of Daily Prayer

Our look at the formative thoughts behind the development of Treasury of Daily prayer continues by hearing the foundational report of Rev. Dr. Rick Stuckwisch to the Good Shepherd Institute in November 2002. Rev. Stuckwisch, was the primary architect for the Daily Lectionary, and public spokesperson for the Lutheran Hymnal Project Lectionary Committee on the [...]

WHITE PAPER #2: Concordia’s Treasury of Daily Prayer: The Shaping of the Daily Lectionary

This next examination of the rationale behind the Treasury of Daily Prayer goes back to the foundational work done by the Lectionary Committee for the (then) Lutheran Hymnal Project. My good friend, Pastor Rick Stuckwisch, was a member of that committee, the committee member who work is most reflected in the Daily Lectionary, and who [...]

WHITE PAPER #1: Concordia’s Treasury of Daily Prayer: The Spheres of Influence

As examination copies and excerpts of Treasury of Daily Prayer begin to circulate, I am receiving interesting questions about how decisions where made that effected what appears in the Treasury. This will be the first attempt to set out some of the editorial rational, thinking, and background behind the Treasury project. If these short white [...]

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