Sunday, March 15, 2020 might go down in history as the day millions of North American Christians stayed home from church and worshiped via live video streams on their computer, iPad or smartphone. Some people went to church online that normally NEVER go to church – on this historic Sunday. (Praise the Lord). If not…
We wrote a web crawling script to research the most popular content management systems used by church websites. We gathered data on 1,600 churches, and our web crawler inspected those 1600 church websites in late 2015. This article describes what we learned. Initially, we were tempted to title this post “The Best Content Management Systems…
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A musical adaptation of Psalm 6, by Karl Kohlhase. “A prayer for consolation in times of grief, sorrow and depression.” The song begins: “Reprove me not in your anger, LORD, nor chastise me in your rage. Have mercy, LORD, in compassion heal, both soul and body in pain.
A new recording of Psalm 6 by the The Psalms Project Band, featuring the voice of Deryck Box. The song begins: “Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger, or chasten me in your wrath. Be merciful to me, for I am weak…” Matthew Henry says in his commentary on Psalm 6: “David was a…
A live back alley recording of Psalm 1 – How Blessed Is the Man – sung by Jody Killingsworth of My Soul Among Lions, a group “dedicated to restoring the Book of Psalms to its place in Christian worship.” The group released their first album Psalms 1-10, on March 8, 2016. Psalm 1 Text Psalm 1…
An example video from My Soul Among Lions, a group from Bloomington, IN – dedicated to recording, promoting and singing the Psalms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoAVWLyTJI8 The lyrics of the song follow the text of Psalm 5:1-3 (KJV) verbatim, with a melody written by Bill Sprouse, Jr and recorded by the Maranatha Singers. “Give ear to my words O Lord Consider my meditation Harken unto the voice of my cry My King and my God For unto Thee will I pray My…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0R7X1rigg This rendition (music video) of Psalm 5 is wrongly attributed to Chuck Girard (in the YouTube title), and was written by Bill Sprouse, Jr. (Let us know if we have not correctly attributed this song.) The lyrics of the song closely follow the text of Psalm 5:1-3 – as found in the KJV. Of course, Psalm…
A very melodic and thoughtful rendition of Psalm 4, featuring the voice of Melissa Breems. The Psalms Project is a community of musicians carrying out out a vision of setting all 150 Psalms to music and including the essential meaning of every verse, crafting songs that are stylistically faithful to each Psalm by combining modern,…