The Psalms - Relationship with God expressed in poetry and song: the role of art in our faith

Our new worship service study will be about the Psalms
Obviously we won’t go verse by verse from Ch. 1 to Ch. 150 because we would never finish before most of us go to heaven, so we’ll stick to the highlights.
Music touches the emotions and the rational side of people; we need both in our worship
The human soul is not merely driven by intellectual and rational principles; the soul is also driven by emotion
Art touches the emotional side of man
We generally attribute emotional as spiritual, but the spiritual contains the intellect and rational side as well as emotion and imagination
In fact, there is no way to separate the emotional and the intellectual; we need both in living
The longest book of the Bible, the Psalms, is made up of poetry and songs: therefore art and music are extremely important to God
The Psalms come from human experience, the heart and soul of mankind attempting to express relationship with God in all of its glory and ingloriousness
·         The good and the bad
·         The soaring and the tripping
·         The devoted and the debauchery
There will be selected Psalms to go through verse by verse devotional style; however, if you have a favorite Psalm I will make sure and include it in our study so just let me know

We will start with Psalm 8:

O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth,
Who have displayed Your splendor above the heavens!
²From the mouth of infants and nursing babes You have established strength
Because of Your adversaries,
To make the enemy and the revengeful cease
³When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,
The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;
⁴What is man that You take thought of him,
And the son of man that You care for him?
⁵Yet You have made him a little lower than God,
And You crown him with glory and majesty!
⁶You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;
You have put all things under his feet,
⁷All sheep and oxen,
And also the beasts of the field,
⁸The birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea,
Whatever passes through the paths of the seas
⁹O Lord, our Lord,
How majestic is Your name in all the earth!