The artistic quality is such that it comes to the heart of what music actually does.

And when things are written to music, poetic phrases that stay with us and that means something,

they're just become a powerful part of the devotional life, how we pray, how we think about things,

and that sort of artistic beauty brings a unique nourishment to the soul.

And so you study the scriptures and study the songs that come from the scriptures just to help

nourish the soul, the family and a congregation.

Keith and Kristen Getty are award-winning hymn writers who co-founded the Getty Music Organization.

In partnership with Crossway, Keith and Kristen worked with their team to create the Sing Himnal,

which features nearly 500 of the best Christian hymns, past and present,

specially curated and organized by the Getty Music team.

Keith, Kristen, thanks so much for joining me today on the

Crossway podcast. Thank you for me, Matt. Thank you. So I think it's fair to say that this hymnal project,

that Getty Music and Crossway have been working on for a few years now, well, I came into this

thinking about all the adjectives I could use to describe this project. But then I thought, it might more interesting to hear how you would describe the project. So as do you think about, what are the words that immediately come to mind when you think about this hymnal project? Keith, do you want to start? I'm still exciting. Some days it's exhausting and some days it's overwhelming, just because it's certainly, I've never done anything like it, but it is extraordinarily exciting

because it's a chance for everyone out there who is a pastor or an elder or a leader of a group

or a worship leader or a parent or a grandparent to actually have something in their hands that

can help shape the future of those that they care for most.

Their families, their friendships, their congregation.

So many of my spiritual heroes talked about the Bible and in the hymn book,

being the two things that help shape their minds, their emotions, their prayer lives, and by extension,

then their actions and their reactions and their witness and their prayer lives, and by extension, then their actions and their reactions and

their witness and their legacy.

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