North Decatur Presbyterian Church

This week's worship was a mix of music and reading. We don't have a regular recording this week. The theme of today’s worship is “A Psalm for Every Season,” which explores how the Psalms can help us celebrate the seasons of the Christian year: Advent, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Lent, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, and the Feast of Christ our King. The Psalm settings, set to familiar tunes, are taken from the Psalter for Christian Worship, a collection of all 150 Psalms by Michael Morgan. Each will be introduced with a few words to set them in the proper liturgical context, and the congregation will be invited to sing. As a visual aid, there will be on display translations of Psalm 23 from the first 3 English Bibles authorized to be read in churches: the Great Bible of Henry VIIII (1539), the Bishops’ Bible of Queen Elizabeth (1568), and a beautiful first printing of the King James Bible (1611).