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Sing a New Song: Recovering Psalm Singing for the Twenty-First Century is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Book of Psalms occupies a unique place in Scripture, being both the Word from God and words to God from his people. Unfortunately, psalm singing no longer plays an integral part of worship in most evangelical churches. In this book, 13 well-respected scholars urge the church to rediscover the treasure of the Psalms as they examine the history of psalm singing in the church, present biblical...

spoken,” says Paul Westermeyer, “but they cry out to be sung.”39 That in itself is worth pondering. “The Psalms are poems,” adds C. S. Lewis, “and poems intended to be sung.”40 Calvin further explains the Reformers’ partiality to the Psalms in his Preface to the Psalter (1543). The Psalms, he argued, were the songs of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, that which St. Augustine has said is true, that no one is able to sing things worthy of God except that which he has received from Him. Therefore, when we
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