My name is Jeremy Fowler. I'm an English teacher and Book Distributor, originally from the UK but now living in Asia with my family.
I'm keen to encourage the singing of the Psalms in the region where I live. However, the first step towards that goal seems to be to rediscover, along with other English speakers, the joys of singing the Psalms in our own language.
One of the problems, of course, is that if we've had any experience of singing Psalms, it may have been done according to dirgy tunes in Shakespearean English, or as a chant. So we throw out the baby with the bathwater and hardly sing the Psalms at all.
Try these Psalms, using tunes that you'll either know, or that you can easily learn.
I'm using the Sing Psalms Metrical Psalter, published by the Free Church of Scotland. I am contacting them to see if they would be willing to put their Psalter online.
Psalm No/ Relevance of the Psalm / Suggested Tune
32 A Psalm of Confession Repton
90 A Psalm for the New Year Eventide
95 A great way to start our worship & prepare us for hearing his word Be Thou My Vision
105 A gripping account of God's faithfulness & power from Jacob to Joshua R. Simpkin's Tune for How Firm a Foundation
146 A wonderfully wide-ranging Psalms nurturing our faith in God not men German National Anthem
See next post for the words.
Other Tunes: alternative tune for How Firm a Foundation
For Further Reading:
Michael B. LeFebvre Singing the Songs of Jesus
“What Can Miserable Christians Sing?” by Carl R. Trueman.
I'm keen to encourage the singing of the Psalms in the region where I live. However, the first step towards that goal seems to be to rediscover, along with other English speakers, the joys of singing the Psalms in our own language.
One of the problems, of course, is that if we've had any experience of singing Psalms, it may have been done according to dirgy tunes in Shakespearean English, or as a chant. So we throw out the baby with the bathwater and hardly sing the Psalms at all.
Try these Psalms, using tunes that you'll either know, or that you can easily learn.
I'm using the Sing Psalms Metrical Psalter, published by the Free Church of Scotland. I am contacting them to see if they would be willing to put their Psalter online.
Psalm No/ Relevance of the Psalm / Suggested Tune
32 A Psalm of Confession Repton
90 A Psalm for the New Year Eventide
95 A great way to start our worship & prepare us for hearing his word Be Thou My Vision
105 A gripping account of God's faithfulness & power from Jacob to Joshua R. Simpkin's Tune for How Firm a Foundation
146 A wonderfully wide-ranging Psalms nurturing our faith in God not men German National Anthem
See next post for the words.
Other Tunes: alternative tune for How Firm a Foundation
For Further Reading:
Michael B. LeFebvre Singing the Songs of Jesus
“What Can Miserable Christians Sing?” by Carl R. Trueman.
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