{"id":4194,"date":"2014-01-29T00:13:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2014-01-29T00:19:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-29T04:19:58","slug":"luther-value-of-singing-the-psalms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"Luther, Value of Singing the Psalms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back through the excellent volume,<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/15TCPKM\"><i> What Luther Says<\/i><\/a> (an excellent resource!), I came across this passage where Luther extols the value of singing the Psalms. I have discussed previously <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1b31YWM\">Luther\u2019s love of the Psalms<\/a>. Here succinctly he mentions the comfort they give, how they \u201cpreach the Messiah,\u201d and the added impact of singing them (as opposed to only reading them).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn view of their spiritual meaning the psalms are really lovely and sweet; for they are comforting to all depressed, wretched consciences, who are in fear of sin, the anguish and agony of death, and all sorts of trouble and misery. To such hearts the book of Psalms is a sweet, comforting, lovely song, because it sings and preaches the Messiah, although one merely reads or recites the words without notes. Nevertheless, the use of notes or music, as a wonderful creation and gift of God, helps greatly to produce this effect, especially when the people sing along and do so with fine devoutness.\u201d\u00a0(#3098)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would we deprive ourselves of such a resource? As Bonhoeffer wrote, \u201cWhenever the Psalter is abandoned, an incomparable treasure vanishes from the Christian church.\u00a0 With its recovery will come unsuspected power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to get started singing the psalms but aren&#8217;t sure how this <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/10IR3bp\">free booklet<\/a> can help you get started.<i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back through the excellent volume, What Luther Says (an excellent resource!), I came across this passage where Luther extols the value of singing the Psalms. I have discussed previously Luther\u2019s love of the Psalms. Here succinctly he mentions the comfort they give, how they \u201cpreach the Messiah,\u201d and the added impact of singing them &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=4194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Luther, Value of Singing the Psalms&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,113],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4196,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}