Ancient Baptist Martyr, Justin Martyr, and other music links

The posting of links does not constitute an endorsement of the sites linked, and not necessarily even agreement with the specific posts linked.

• Hymn of an Ancient Baptist Martyr -- “Balthasar Hübmaier’s hymn ‘A Song in Praise of God’s Word’ is 18 stanzas and covers the whole Bible from Adam to Christ.”
• Justin Martyr Does Not Mention Music while Describing Christian Worship -- “In this very thorough description of a Lord’s Day meeting, Justin describes a service as consisting of preaching, teaching, praying, reading Scripture publicly, taking of the Lord’s Table, saying ‘Amen,’ and collecting the offering.”
• “My Faith Looks Up to Thee” -- “Mason was compiling a new hymnal, and asked this young seminarian if he had any poems to contribute. Palmer did...”
• O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go -- “Light provides the second metaphor for the poem. Our lives are a faint, flickering torch ignited by the sunshine blaze of God’s love.”
• Psalms Project -- “Pastor Anderson's goal is to put all 150 psalms to music without changing a single word of the KJV text.”
• The Church Should Sing for Heaven’s Sake (with Matthew Westerholm) -- “Our churches used to sing about heaven. Now they don’t. And when they do, well, they do it unlike previous generations.”
• The Church Should Sing for Heaven’s Sake: When and Why We Stopped Singing about Heaven, and How to Start Again -- “This shift in emphasis among American hymnody is too substantial to attribute to a single influence. So let me focus on three: certain strands of Pentecostalism, juvenilization, and commercialization.”
• ‘The Fruit of Our Lips’: A Cappella Praise through the Centuries (Part 3) -- “...as late as the 19th century, Adam Blair could still assert concerning the Waldenses in their ancestral homeland, ‘no organ is used in the valleys, except in La Torre.’”
• West Georgia Gospel Singing -- “In the region of West Georgia, a wealth of traditional sacred and gospel music can be found – Sacred Harp singing thrives at churches like Holly Springs Baptist...”
• What Was Early Church Worship Music Like? -- “This simplistic approach is not how music is treated today in the church.”