Tony Cummings muses on the JEFF LOWE PSALMS PROJECT and KNGDM REVIVAL and their radical approach to <a href="https://christiancorner.us/2026/08/18/bible-with-life-offers-scripture-blessing-songs-for-the-new-school-year/” title=”Bible with Life Offers Scripture Blessing Songs for the New School Year”>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.
The opinions expressed in this article are
not necessarily those held by Cross Rhythms. Any expressed
views were accurate at the time of publishing but may or may
not reflect the views of the individuals concerned at a
later date.
Tony Cummings is a freelance journalist and broadcaster.
