Julie Tennent shares some hymns to engage with this Lenten season. Whether you reflect on these hymns as rich poetry or sing them in a personal times of worship, let these be a soul enriching part of your time spent with the Lord. These are also great suggestions for worship leaders when selecting songs during Lent.
The Psalms can be very turbulent, filled with anguish, and raw with emotion, but also full of deep theology. That’s plenty reason to sing the Psalms.
In A Metrical Psalter: The Book of Psalms Set to Meter for Singing, Julie and Timothy Tennent have faithfully set the biblical text into poetical form in a beautiful hardback book—not writing new poetry about the Psalms, but following the exact text of the psalm as closely as possible.
Lent is just around the corner, and in today’s post, Julie Tennent charges us to take the challenge of entering a journey with God’s Word through singing the songs which He gave us—in the Psalms! Seedbed has a daily guide for all 150 Psalms.
One of the most frequently asked questions about singing the whole Psalter – all of the psalms with all of the verses – is this question: What about the imprecatory psalms, those that call down curses on one’s enemies? How do we sing them as Christians?
