Illuminate Summer Speaker Series 2024

If you are seeking funds to participate in this program, please wait to register and first complete our Financial Assistance Application. A Pendle Hill staff member will follow-up with you shortly.

There will be an option to purchase the Spring 2024 Illuminate Study Guide directly from Pendle Hill at the time of registration, or you can purchase it separately below.

“Illuminate Study Guide: Psalms” (Spring 2024). Click to purchase!

Join us for a series of evening discussions with authors of  Illuminate: Entering God’s Presence, the most recent publication in the Barclay Press Illuminate Friends Bible Study Series. Speakers will share insights from their studies as they prepared the lessons and “Friendly Perspectives” in this series.

The book of Psalms displays a range of human experiences and emotions that are brought to the Lord through songs and prayers. Anger, violence, sadness, and a recognition of evil are all present in the psalms – and so are love, peace, happiness, hope, and a recognition of God’s faithfulness.

Studying the psalms helps us better understand how to worship authentically. Whether you’re joyful, angry, suffering, or hopeful, God meets you there. Because God’s “steadfast love endures forever” (Psalm 136:1), we can all say with the psalmists, “Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!” (Psalm 150:6).

Looking to participate in only one or two sessions? 
Register for an individual session instead:

June 10: Christina Muhr, Introduction; Greg Woods, Friendly Perspective on Psalm 23
June 24: Cherice Bock, Creation Psalms; Paul Amquist, Friendly Perspective on Psalm 8
July 15: Andy Stanton-Henry, Wisdom Psalms; Mark Condo, Friendly Perspective on
Psalm 25
July 29: Ben Snyder, Thanksgiving Psalms; Lynette Davis, Friendly Perspective on Psalm 27
August 12: Nate Macey, Lament; Paul Bock, Friendly Perspective on Psalm 39

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