The Motto Verse for Christ Church in 2014 is Colossians 3.16 which declares: ‘Let the message about Christ in all its richness fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts’. One of the reasons that this verse has been chosen is to inspire us in 2014 to get to know the book of Psalms much better. Psalms is the hymn book of the Bible and yet is often rather neglected during those frequent discussions and disagreements about the form which our sung worship in church should have. Jesus, however, quoted from the Psalms more than any other Old Testament book and his familiarity with its contents was crucial to the development of his calling as well as that of Paul and other early Christians. During 2014 we will therefore freshly examine as many of the Psalms as possible and look to use them to refresh our approach to worship both within in church services and in our daily lives.
