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“Sing a New Song to the Lord.” (Psalm 96) The history of the world is filled with people who at some point started to “sing a new song,” as the psalm calls us today.
Psalm 96 begins: “Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the whole Earth,” and the Psalm continues in saying: “Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea ...
MOLINE -- ``Sing to the Lord, a new song,'' Psalm 96 instructs, and members of First Covenant Church, Moline, will use a new organ to carry out that tune.
In her article “Freeing Biblical Poetry to Sing”, Dr Brenda H. Boerger, of the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, Texas, writes that “the cognitive effects of music on the brain ...
You’re reading the religion page, so maybe even a favorite hymn came to mind. Music sticks with us. Music moves us. “Sing joyfully to the Lord for it is fitting to praise him!” Psalm 33.
Sacred music joins people in a collective expression - whether of joy, sorrow or protest.
Indeed, the Queen selected The Lord Is My Shepherd to be sung at her funeral on Monday, September 19, 2022. The song, based on the words of Psalm 23, is believed to be one of her favourites.
NEW translations of the Bible are most “optimal” when they set its poetry to music, research published in the journal Open Theology suggests. As such, it should become “standard best practice”. In her ...