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by L. L. Larkins (Author)
Third Edition, 2025, Recipient of the 2017 Illumination GOLD Medal in Education. Finalist in 2017 Foreword Performing Arts.
This musical author adapted scripture lyrics in verse-by-verse context to traditional hymn tunes, leaving the interpretive style to your own tastes.
Sample verse rhymed and metered to Dottie Rambo's song, "I Go the Rock".
The Lord is my stronghold! He is my shield; oh, how I trust Him!
When I am helped up, my heart will start rejoicing!
I will extol Him with a song forever ringing;
God is the strength for all His people, a tower of strength!
I go to the Rock, now, won't You listen?
Hear the sound of an honest petition!
See my hands are lifted high, for what I need?
When all around me are crooked souls,
I'm not going down to the pit with fools!
When I need a helper, when I need help,
I go to the Rock.
This Biblical hymnal dares to ask for the vengeance and care of the Almighty when in deep trouble.
Singing the Psalms helps develop true Christian thinking and living. Prime the fountain of deeper worship with the ancient texts. Psalm 8 is sung to the hymn, Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation.
Oh LORD, our Lord, how majestic is Your name the world-wide!
You spread Your glory above velvet Evenings in night skies.
Mouths of the babes and nursing children dispute
All accusations against You.
When I consider Your heavens, the works Of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars You have placed in Their settings to swing there,
What are our minds? What are our souls that You care?
Why should Your kindness dispense here?
This common prayer book offers a timeless witness of God's involvement in health, wealth, and poverty, in sickness and betrayal. It offer tributes to those who live faithfully. In these ancient witnesses, the Psalms tell the goodness and foolishness of one's elders and one's own attitudes.
These are the prayers of the shepherd boy turned King David, of the wandering Hebrews, priests, worship leaders, and also penitents and prophets.
This volume of singable Psalm Hymns includes the first two books of soulish meditations from the Old Testament (Psalm 1 through 72) guidance for your own spiritual ventures.
Use for unique theater or drama presentations, for an emphasis in counseling, for left-brain-right-brain interactive exercises, for character-building memory work, or as a pastoral aid. Raw, classic prayers for a creative's portfolio.
"The Psalms are prescribed and authorized for worship throughout God's kingdom, and without them, our worship is censored, uninformed and incomplete." - Timothy Raymond (editor for Credo Magazine, Indiana)
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Our hope is by reciting or singing these Psalms, our souls are transformed by a new awareness of God's awesome presence.
