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New Hymns, Songs, and Poems
"Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord." -Ephesians 5:18
Throughout the history of the church, the Holy Spirit has moved within the hearts of God’s children to lift up and glorify Christ Jesus through the composing and writing of new hymns and songs. We have all been blessed, by such compositions. Many movements of God have resulted in the introduction of new hymns and songs under the filling and inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Moreover, if such songs are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, they will be filled with the glories of Christ Jesus and will never be at variance with the Word of God. Also, if the new songs are truly inspired by the Holy Spirit, they will follow the same pattern He has given us in the Word.
A quick perusal of the divine songbook - the Psalms - will show that the majority of songs written and inspired by the Holy Spirit will fall into the following approximate ratios: Doctrinal Psalms - forty percent, Devotional Psalms - thirty-seven percent, and Praise Psalms - twenty-three percent. While acknowledging that the following analysis is somewhat subjective, and allowing for some crossover, I don’t believe anyone would disagree that, at the least, the ratios would be one third - Doctrinal, one third - Devotional, and one third - Praise. These are the approximate ratios forever chosen by the Holy Spirit in the composition of His songbook. How much more should these same ratios prevail in our modern songbooks.
It is most unfortunate, however, that today the doctrinal and devotional songs have been relegated to a few, and the vast majority of songs fall into the praise category. Please, do not misunderstand; praise songs have their proper place. After all, they consist of a least twenty-three percent of the Psalms. Many times they even contain refrains that are very repetitious (e.g. Psalms 136). And so, because of the Biblical example, such songs are appropriate and edifying. However, if we should follow the Biblical example of our Divine Composer, praise songs should be of a smaller ratio than songs with doctrinal or devotional content.
Because of this truth, we would like to offer new hymns and songs of a more doctrinal and devotional content for the edifying of Christians and assemblies. The sign of a healthy assembly and/or movement of God will be the fresh composing of songs. How the Church has been blessed since the Spirit of God began moving among the brethren in the early 1800’s from such composers as S. Trevor Francis, James Deck, or Edward Denny. We pray the Lord will continue to do so in our own days.
And since new songs should be the result of the prompting and inspiration of the Holy Spirit, and since whatever the Holy Spirit freely gives should, in turn, be offered freely, we would like to freely offer these songs for the use of any Christian or assembly. You may freely download and copy them without fear of copyright infringment. If your assembly has any new songs, we would love to hear from you and would offer our website for their dissemination.
In addition to newly written hymns and songs we hope to include some poems for the edification of all believers, and some "new" old hymns that have been forgotten but are still ever fresh with the breath of the blessed Holy Spirit. We hope you will be blessed from this small beginning.
DOCTRINAL
DEVOTIONAL
PRAISE
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