My church just replaced our copies of the Book of Psalms for Singing with the new Trinity Psalter Hymnal published by the OPC and URCNA. I was asked to present an introduction to this new song book in our Sunday school class. It turned into a brief history of hymnody and psalmody in American Presbyterians along with looking at some distinctives of this wonder new hymnal.

You can listen on SermonAudio.

Some resources I used in preparation:

• A Quick First Glance at the Trinity Psalter Hymnal by Ligon Duncan
• Reflections On The 2018 Trinity Psalter Hymnal by Shane Lems
• Recovering Mother Kirk
• OPC General Assembly Minutes
• Between the Times
• Sing a New Song to the Lord: An Historical Survey of American Presbyterian Hymnals by James Rawlings Sydnor
• The New Presbyterian Hymnal by J. Gresham Machen
• What we can learn about Martin Luther from his hymn writing
• Origins of Calvin’s Theology of Music: 1536-1543 by Charles Garside, Jr.

I just discovered the PCA Historical Society’s has a thorough Bibliography for Reading in Presbyterian Church History and would commend it you you.