Saturday, December 31, 2011

A New Year of Music Begins


A New Year begins tomorrow—fittingly, on a Sunday. What music is your church using to begin the new year?
At my church, we are beginning the service with “Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah, O My Soul”—based on Psalm 146. As I was practicing this afternoon, I was contemplating the beginning of the new year, and thinking how fitting this hymn is for the occasion. The first verse begins with almost a New Year's resolution: