Reading about your 6 old made me think about a morning where I woke up to some singing, only to find my 6, 5, and 4 year olds sat up on their beds singing the psalms we learnt during our daily family worship.
I wouod love our local church to start singing one or two Psalms on the Lord's Day (I do keep hinting it to our Pastor).
All I can say is I love the Psalms and believe they are a model for praise and worship. Though the church which I attend is brilliant at looking after the flock I feel that as has been called ‘happy clappy’ songs are sometimes the norm. In the eighties and nineties there was albums called Psalms set to music which were excellent but I can’t seem to locate them now.
What psalmbook do you use? Trinity Hymnal? Something else? Are you singing hymn adaptations of the psalm, just the psalm? I'm at us Conservative Congregational Church and have never done it, but I'm curious and want to try it.
At home, we use David Erb's Cantica Sanctorum (usually, NKJV). At church, we tend to sing to well-known hymn melodies, usually set by one of the elders (one of my co-podcasters, Nathan Paylor). The Erb settings are the unchanged text with more complex arrangements; Nathan's are very slightly amended settings in order to fit the metre / melody of the chosen hymn melody, but with no substantial change of wording and/or meaning. Well worth trying!
Reading about your 6 old made me think about a morning where I woke up to some singing, only to find my 6, 5, and 4 year olds sat up on their beds singing the psalms we learnt during our daily family worship.
I wouod love our local church to start singing one or two Psalms on the Lord's Day (I do keep hinting it to our Pastor).
All I can say is I love the Psalms and believe they are a model for praise and worship. Though the church which I attend is brilliant at looking after the flock I feel that as has been called ‘happy clappy’ songs are sometimes the norm. In the eighties and nineties there was albums called Psalms set to music which were excellent but I can’t seem to locate them now.
Amen. It really shouldn't be that hard for churches to bring them back.
Faith can go deeper-“let each come with a psalm, a teaching or interpretation “. The Spirit would have free course if faith can receive it!
Amen!
What psalmbook do you use? Trinity Hymnal? Something else? Are you singing hymn adaptations of the psalm, just the psalm? I'm at us Conservative Congregational Church and have never done it, but I'm curious and want to try it.
At home, we use David Erb's Cantica Sanctorum (usually, NKJV). At church, we tend to sing to well-known hymn melodies, usually set by one of the elders (one of my co-podcasters, Nathan Paylor). The Erb settings are the unchanged text with more complex arrangements; Nathan's are very slightly amended settings in order to fit the metre / melody of the chosen hymn melody, but with no substantial change of wording and/or meaning. Well worth trying!
Thank you! I'm adding this to my shopping list!
L