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The songs below come from a psalm festival at the Calvin Symposium of Worship in January 2020 and was led by Wendell Kimbrough and Calvin University musicians.
Wendell Kimbrough is a songwriter who re-imagines the Psalms for emotionally honest modern worship. His songs are marked by strong singable melodies, steeped in the sounds of folk, gospel, and soul music. Wendell serves as artist-in-residence and worship leader at Church of the Apostles in Fairhope, Alabama. His recent albums are Come to Me (2018) and Psalms We Sing Together (2016).
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Text and Tune: Psalm 24; Wendell Kimbrough © 2015 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 104, Wendell Kimbrough © 2014 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 69; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 82; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 83; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063
Text and Tune: Wendell Kimbrough © 2015 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063
Text and Tune: from Matthew 11:28; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Wendell Kimbrough © 2019 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063
Text and Tune: Psalm 37; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 32; Wendell Kimbrough © 2016 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Lillian Bouknight © 1981 Peermusic III, Ltd. and Savgos Music, Inc., admin. Hal Leonard Corporation; arr. Paul Gainer © 1980 Peermusic III, Ltd. and Savgos Music, Inc., admin. Hal Leonard Corporation.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 67; Wendell Kimbrough © 2017 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Text and Tune: Psalm 107; Wendell Kimbrough © 2016 Wendell Kimbrough.
Used by permission. CCLI #400063.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Why and how did psalm singing become such a hallmark of Reformed worship? Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along the way, we will hear the voices of early modern Christians as they learned how to sing the psalms, both in unison and in harmony.
John Goldingay, an Anglican priest and the senior professor of Old Testament at Fuller Theological Seminary, posits the psalms are the densest material in the entire Old Testament. They expound the nature of God as the compassionate, faithful, and committed one, but also as the one who makes demands upon us. The psalms help us talk to God, even about difficult things—and when we do, we are talking to someone who is in a position to do something about it.
Sister Kathleen Harmon of the community of the Ohio province of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in Dayton, invites us to be transformed by the psalms and experience them as the whole story God is revealing to us. As we keep praying and singing them, the psalms interpret us, and that’s when the transformation comes.
Vinroy D. Brown Jr.—conductor, musicologist, educator, and minister of creative worship and music at the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City—explores the vibrant intersection of Black sacred music and the psalms. He talks about Black composers and how they have reimagined the psalms through choral music, spirituals, and the gospel tradition for the benefit of everyone.
