{"id":484,"date":"2010-09-27T21:51:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T04:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2010-10-06T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T19:00:22","slug":"first-official-psalm-sing-at-our-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/first-official-psalm-sing-at-our-church","title":{"rendered":"First Official Psalm Sing at our Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-30-of-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"psalm sing (30 of 3)\" src=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-30-of-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For many years, Steven has had a vision of encouraging music in the Body of Christ. One of the ways we are trying to implement his vision for our family is by hosting our church&#8217;s very first official psalm sing.<\/p>\n<p>A psalm sing is a gathering of people of all levels of musical expertise who learn to sing a psalm in four part harmony.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-29-of-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"psalm sing (29 of 3)\" src=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-29-of-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-29-of-3.jpg\"><\/a>That&#8217;s right folks. People who tell us at the beginning of the sing, <em>&#8220;Well, just to warn you, I can&#8217;t really sing . . .&#8221;<\/em> We smile. If they need it, we hand them this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genevanfoundation.com\/article-butIcantsing.html\">article<\/a>. And then, we sing. Because it really is a lot easier than you might think; even when we start with a wonderfully fun and complicated one such as Psalm 98A!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-28-of-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-528\" title=\"psalm sing (28 of 3)\" src=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-28-of-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-28-of-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/psalm-sing-28-of-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the end of the night, just as we suspected, we have an amazing blend of pure luscious four part harmony emanating from our music room. And a bunch of people on fire for praising God through song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, Steven has had a vision of encouraging music in the Body of Christ. One of the ways we are trying to implement his vision for our family is by hosting our church&#8217;s very first official psalm sing. A psalm sing is a gathering of people of all levels of musical expertise who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srloomis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}