There is no question that we ought to be singing the Psalms, but to which melodies? Along with inspiring the words to the Psalms, God could have inspired his own melodies as well, but he did not. I speculate that the reason for his not giving us inspired melodies along with the inspired texts is that he has always intended for his people to utilize their God-given talents to clothe these texts with melodies appropriate to the respective cultures of his multinational family. I am not a seventeenth century Englishman; why ought I limit myself and my family to singing God's ever fresh truth in melodies of sixteenth century England? Some Christian sects have apparently decided that there was something especially holy about the nineteenth century, and so they dress and work their farms as if it were 1850. In their view, any technology developed after "the holy time" is inappropriate and even destructive. With a similar irrationality, many of our churches seem to have adopted the same attitude with respect to music.

Let twenty first century Christians write music for the Psalms that is appropriate for the twenty first century. This CD is another installment in my ongoing effort to do just that. I have thought that the pleas for justice that characterize Psalms 35-37 called for an aggressive musical style. These texts are not uniformly soothing; parts of them are quite anguished; some of them are exulting in their confident expectation of God's justice upon the wicked. I have attempted to write music that is appropriate to the various moods of the text.

This CD is available for $12.00 plus $2.00 shipping. If you cannot afford the price of this CD, contact Jim Scott Orrick for information on how you may obtain a copy for whatever price you can afford.

Contact: Jim Scott Orrick
2013 Meadowbrook Drive
La Grange, KY 40031

"It is my prayer that the LORD will once again hear millions of His people not just reading but singing His inspired Psalms in both public and private worship."

Listen to Real Audio selections from the CD.
Psalm 27:1-3
Psalm 30:1-5

This CD is available for $10.00 plus $2.00 shipping. If you cannot afford the price of this CD, contact Jim Scott Orrick for information on how you may obtain a copy for whatever price you can afford.

Contact: Jim Scott Orrick
2013 Meadowbrook Drive
La Grange, KY 40031

"For most people it is much easier to memorize a text if it is set to music. In composing the tunes for The Baptist Catechism I have endeavored to make each tune simple, suited to the text, and capable of being sung without musical accompaniment. I have also tried to compose music that children and young people will enjoy singing."

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• Our Eyes are on You
  
  
• A Lion Has Roared
  
  
• Loving God with All your Strength
  
  
• Loving God with All your Mind
  
  
• Loving God with All your Heart and Soul
  
  
• From Slow Hearts to Burning Hearts
  
  
• Atheism and its Effects
  
  
• God Is
  
  
• Rejoicing in the Lord
  
  
• The Greatest Commandment
  
  
• Trust in God
  
  
• The Weariness of Wickedness
  
  

• Worship, The Fourth Essential of a New Testament Church
  
  
• The Outcry
  
  
• The Lord's Supper, Part Two: The Better Way
  
  
• The Lord's Supper, Part One: The Worse Way
  
  
• It Was Fitting
  
  
• A Little Lower than the Angels
  
  
• Citizens of Heaven
  
  
• Partakers of the Divine Nature
  
  
• Life and Godliness
  
  
• Everything We Need
  
  
• Look and Live
  Salvation Pictured, Provided, and Procured