{"id":125619,"date":"2025-09-04T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125619"},"modified":"2025-09-04T23:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T04:08:30","slug":"just-the-right-hymnal-for-you-your-family-and-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=125619","title":{"rendered":"Just the Right Hymnal For You, Your Family, and Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a504cdaf-4f07-48df-ab22-ae2cb5bbf9e0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-drop-cap\">I have come to realize that I probably felt a little skeptical about the new <em>Sing! Hymnal<\/em> from Getty Music. I wasn\u2019t aware of this, but I suppose I hear of so many big product launches\u2014and experience so many that end up being a mite disappointing\u2014that I am prone to be a bit jaded. But I realize now that I should not have been, because this hymnal delivers.<\/p>\n<aside data-beyondwords-marker=\"86160b41-4401-47da-a5c2-4b2f5374aa73\" class=\"wp-block-group alignright challies-book is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-119bc444 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" id=\"book\">\n<header data-beyondwords-marker=\"24c99033-0f4e-4eec-b785-c186849c3332\" class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-22223934 wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"> The Sing! Hymnal <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"49a16089-e0ec-4257-80a2-7241d9a412bf\" class=\"wp-block-group book-meta is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-e44ade59 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a5ca4e1c-8f1c-4336-9b8d-6edb6c917839\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph book-author\">Getty Music<\/p>\n<figure data-beyondwords-marker=\"5e00109d-ede3-4f7c-b278-9871455c210b\" class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium book-cover has-box-shadow\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"346450c8-54cd-4557-804f-1719542b843e\" class=\"wp-block-buttons book-links is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-9e89c9a3 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"abde9c15-be39-4763-b92a-cd993f70e65f\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a id=\"https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4p99fh7\" class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/the-hymnal-for-you-your-family-and-your-church\/#https%3A%2F%2Famzn.to%2F4p99fh7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from Amazon<\/a> <\/p>\n<div data-beyondwords-marker=\"79ae8457-240e-4e20-a590-d696e70a2851\" class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-outline is-style-outline--2\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/collections\/current-specials\/products\/the-sing-hymnal-9781433590290?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy from WTS Books<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"68b57d28-388f-47ab-b7db-edc82a43a4dd\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">(Affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"35b11512-1818-4c33-bf09-6dce2365d2c9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It forced me to ask the question: What makes a good hymnal? Obviously, song selection is at the very top of the list and is the most important factor. A hymnal cannot be good if it is full of bad songs, and it\u2019s hard for it to be truly bad if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to realize that I probably felt a little skeptical about the new Sing! Hymnal from Getty Music. I wasn\u2019t aware of this, but I suppose I hear of so many big product launches\u2014and experience so many that end up being a mite disappointing\u2014that I am prone to be a bit jaded. But I realize now that I should not have been, because this hymnal delivers. The Sing! Hymnal Getty Music (Affiliate links) It forced me to ask the question: What makes a good hymnal? Obviously, song selection is at the very top of the list and is the most important factor. A hymnal cannot be good if it is full of bad songs, and it\u2019s hard for it to be truly bad if it\u2019s full of good songs. Beyond the quality of the songs is the variety\u2014the variety of songwriters, subjects, time periods, and even the inclusion (or lack of inclusion) of Psalms. Simply, a good hymnal must be a collection of good songs. With the massive variety of songs available in the English language, we could perhaps go a bit farther and say that it must be a collection of great songs. A second factor is the additional material such as Scripture readings, creeds, liturgical elements, snippets of catechisms, and so on. Many of the best hymnals go beyond merely printing hymns and offer other material that can be used for personal or corporate worship. A third factor is the structure. While it would be possible to simply arrange each of\u2026See AlsoFree Stuff Fridays (Crossway)20 Hymns To Sing With Your Family This SummerWhat We Gained When We Lost Our Hymnals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":125633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[854],"class_list":["post-125619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-book-reviews","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/71II-eAYfnL._SL1500_-1-1.jpg?fit=1500%2C791&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125634,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125619\/revisions\/125634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}