“Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.”—Ephesians 5:19-20

This is a project I have been thinking about doing for a long, long time. Some of these songs are almost 30 years old. But they are songs I have sung and still sing. It’s about time I recorded them properly.

I don’t have much (or anything really) to do with organized religion these days, but I did come up through the Southern Baptist church. The songs I was introduced to in those days are deeply embedded in my being. The best of them have great melodies and lyrics that communicate what it means to try to follow and be like Jesus.

During my quiet time in the mornings, one of the things I do is get out my guitar and play music. Sometimes I will flip open an old hymnal and play a few of those old songs. As I often do when I play songs I did not write, I try to put my own spin on those songs.

Way back in the late 1990s (you know, the previous century), I was studying the Psalms and decided to set a few of them to music. Sometimes I adapted the lyrics and other times I attempted to do them as close to the New International Version of the Bible as I could.

I have also written original songs through the years that reflected my thoughts and feelings about what it means to attempt (however poorly) to follow the teaching and example of Jesus Christ.

If you wish to download the album (or any of my other releases), you can go to my Bandcamp page and download it on a “Pay What You Like” basis. Even for zero dollars!

And if you just want to stream the record, it is currently available here, as well as other fine online facilitators of streaming and music sales, such as the following:

My Website: www.bennett-music.com
Bandcamp: https://bit.ly/4lZMN8p
Amazon Music: http://bit.ly/45GEp7G
Spotify: http://bit.ly/4m5JHzv
YouTube: http://bit.ly/4fo5jEK
ReverbNation: http://bit.ly/4ohW39s