Psalms/Scripture


A Mosaic of Faith and Hope: A Festival of Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs

Alumni of the James Abbington Church Music Academy of the Hampton Ministers' Conference lead a festival of congregation songs.

February 21, 2017
Wendell Kimbrough on Singing Creation Psalms

A regular discipline of writing psalm refrains helped one musician notice psalms in which creation and God’s people call each other to worship the Creator.

February 21, 2017
Celtic Psalms: Finding Light in the Darkness

In this vesper service, the congregation worships God by singing and listening to psalm settings with soulful Irish and Scottish melodies, exploring how God’s light shines even in the midst of the darkest nights, guiding his people into places of joy, forgiveness, and peace.

February 20, 2017

Trumpets, Ashes, and Tears: New Psalmody for the Journey of Faith

In this vesper service, songwriters with ministries of writing congregation-friendly settings of the biblical Psalms lead the congregation in sung prayer, along with scripture readings and intercessions focused on ministering to the needs, challenges, and vocation of worship leaders, artists of all kinds, and pastors.

February 20, 2017
A Sweet Sound: Absorbing God's Word in the Language of the Heart

What changes when a person hears God’s Word in their own language as opposed to their second or third language? How does the translation of key theological terms into a person's mother tongue change their understanding?

February 14, 2017
The Challenges and Opportunities of Preaching Matthew

Each of the four gospels has its own flavor, themes, and overall character and so each requires different things of the preacher. Matthew’s Gospel presents a number of challenges, a few of which are peculiar to the present day when biblical literacy in most places has fallen off.

February 13, 2017