Five Psalms vs Homiletics

Do you find your prayers to God to be repetitive and boring? Do you tend to say the same old things about the same old things? The best solution is to pray through a passage of Scripture, in particular a psalm or proverb. In Donald S. Whitney's excellent Praying the Bible book (Crossway, 2015), Whitney introduces a superb, systematic approach for praying through Scripture called "Psalms of the Day." Since there are 150 psalms in the book of Psalms and most months have at least 30 days, you can read through all 150 psalms in a month by reading five per day. You start by taking today's day of the month and reading the corresponding psalm, then keep adding 30 until you get your five psalms. On the 31st day of the month, you read Psalm 119 only. You quickly scan those five psalms then pick the one that best leads you to prayer at that moment. This app was inspired by Whitney's "Psalms of the Day" prayer approach. Instead of having to do the math each day and manually flipping to each psalm in a physical Bible, this app automatically looks up today's date, does the math, and displays for you the exact five psalms for the day. You can read through a psalm by swiping up and down, and switch to a different psalm by swiping left and right. You can also display the Proverbs chapter of the day, customize the look and feel of the Scripture text, choose from different Bible versions, and customize what happens on the 31st day of the month (show Psalm 119 or five random Psalms).

Homiletics walks you through studying a Bible passage the way good teachers prepare: read it closely, summarize it verse by verse, find its natural divisions, boil it down to one sentence, and decide how to live it out. STUDY A PASSAGE, STEP BY STEP • The passage sits right beside your notes, so you never lose your place. Tap a verse number to start a summary there. • Guided steps: Content, Divisions, Summary sentence, Aim and Application, with help on each step if you're new to homiletics. • This week's passage is ready on the home screen, along with everything you've studied before. LECTURE NOTES WITH RECORDING • Record a lecture or sermon while you take notes. Recording keeps going when your screen turns off. • Add time marks as you write, then tap one to hear that moment again. • Get a transcript made on your device. Your audio is never uploaded. WORD STUDIES • Dig into one word: its definition, where else it's used in Scripture, what it means in context, and how it applies to you. BIBLES AND LANGUAGES • Many Bible translations, plus offline Bibles you can download once and read anywhere. • The app speaks English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swahili and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional). SHARE, PRINT AND BACK UP • Print a clean PDF for class, or share a study as a link that opens in the app or in any web browser. AirDrop works too. • Back up all your studies to one file and keep it wherever you like: iCloud Drive, Files, email. • Free up space by removing old recordings while keeping your notes and transcripts. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Your studies and recordings stay on your device. Homiletics is an independent project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Bible Study Fellowship.