Tony Cummings muses on the JEFF LOWE PSALMS PROJECT and KNGDM REVIVAL and their radical approach to Scripture

In the 1970s Britain's Jeff Lowe began a huge task. Under the name the Jeff Lowe Psalms Project he started recording and releasing new music for every psalm in the Bible. Not just fragments of the psalms, but the whole of all 150 of them. Jeff hopes to complete the task at the beginning of 2027. Putting the whole of selected Scripture to music is not a new idea, of course. In the Middle Ages monks, through brilliant plainsong composers like Thomas Tallis and others, sang the psalms.

Now two gifted musicianaries from California are putting the life-transforming message of the Bible to a music audience that is largely biblically illiterate. Michael and Emily Lundberg record under the name KNGDM Revival and have already recorded and released the Sermon on the Mount, some of the Lord's parables and also some psalms.

Technically, transforming Scripture into music is a hugely difficult job. Scripture doesn't rhyme and it doesn't scan. But both the Jeff Lowe Psalms Project featuring Godfrey Rust with "Psalm 62 My Soul Finds Rest In God Alone" and KNGDM Revival with "The Good Samaritan" have proven that whole chunks of Scripture can work as music. You'll hear them both on Cross Rhythms radio. And whether you listen to the gentle folk pop of Jeff Lowe or dance in clubland to the pumping rhythms of KNGDM Revival, the Word is getting through. And for that the whole Church should be appreciative.