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Michael Perry

1942 - 1996 Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Affliction; Blessing; Doubt; Endurance; God Desire for; God Obedience to; God as Refuge; God's Word; God's Anger; God's Love; God's Promises; God's Strength; Jesus Christ Way, Truth, and Life; Mercy; Patience; Peacemakers; Remnant of Isarel; Rest; Ten Commandments 6th Commandment (do not kill/murder); The Needy; Trust; Truth; Wisdom Psalms; Year C, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 7th Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 2-8 Author of "Commit Your Way to God the Lord" in Psalms for All Seasons Initially studying mathematics and physics at Dulwich College, Michael A. Perry (b. Beckenham, Kent, England, 1942; d. England, 1996) was headed for a career in the sciences. However, after one year of study in physics at the University of London, he transferred to Oak Hill College to study theology. He also studied at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and received a M.Phil. from the University of Southhampton in 1973. Ordained a priest in the Church of England in 1966, Perry served the parish of St. Helen's in Liverpool as a youth worker and evangelist. From 1972 to 1981 he was the vicar of Bitterne in Southhampton and from 1981 to 1989, rector of Eversley in Hampshire and chaplain at the Police Staff College. He then became vicar of Tonbridge in Kent, where he remained until his death from a brain tumor in 1996. Perry published widely in the areas of Bible study and worship. He edited Jubilate publications such as Hymns far Today's Church (1982), Carols far Today (1986), Come Rejoice! (1989), and Psalms for Today (1990). Composer of the musical drama Coming Home (1987), he also wrote more than two hundred hymns and Bible versifications. Bert Polman

Thomas Olivers

1725 - 1799 Topics: Church As Covenant People; Consecration and Obedience; God; God Faithfulness of; God Infinity and Eternity of; God Love and Grace of; God Name of; God Power of; God Sovereignty of ; Heaven anticipation of; Pilgrimage and Guidance; Resurrection and Glorification Translator of "The God of Abraham Praise" in Trinity Psalter Hymnal Thomas Olivers was born in Tregonan, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His youth was one of profligacy, but under the ministry of Whitefield, he was led to a change of life. He was for a time apprenticed to a shoemaker, and followed his trade in several places. In 1763, John Wesley engaged him as an assistant; and for twenty-five years he performed the duties of an itinerant ministry. During the latter portion of his life he was dependent on a pension granted him by the Wesleyan Conference. He died in 1799. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872. ================== Olivers, Thomas, was born at Tregynon, near Newtown, Montgomeryshire, in 1725. His father's death, when the son was only four years of age, followed by that of the mother shortly afterwards, caused him to be passed on to the care of one relative after another, by whom he was brought up in a somewhat careless manner, and with little education. He was apprenticed to a shoemaker. His youth was one of great ungodliness, through which at the age of 18 he was compelled to leave his native place. He journeyed to Shrewsbury, Wrexham, and Bristol, miserably poor and very wretched. At Bristol he heard G. Whitefield preach from the text "Is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?" That sermon turned the whole current of his life, and he became a decided Christian. His intention at the first was to join the followers of Whitefield, but being discouraged from doing so by one of Whitefield's preachers, he subsequently joined the Methodist Society at Bradford-on-Avon. At that town, where he purposed carrying on his business of shoemaking, he met John Wesley, who, recognising in him both ability and zeal, engaged him as one of his preachers. Olivers joined Wesley at once, and proceeded as an evangelist to Cornwall. This was on Oct. 1, 1753. He continued his work till his death, which took place suddenly in London, in March 1799. He was buried in Wesley's tomb in the City Road Chapel burying ground, London. Olivers was for some time co-editor with J. Wesley of the Arminian Magazine, but his lack of education unfitted him for the work. As the author of the tune Helmsley, and of the hymn “The God of Abraham praise," he is widely known. He also wrote “Come Immortal King of glory;" and "O Thou God of my salvation," whilst residing at Chester; and an Elegy on the death of John Wesley. His hymns and the Elegy were reprinted (with a Memoir by the Rev. J. Kirk) by D. Sedgwick, in 1868. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Andraé Crouch

1942 - 2015 Person Name: Andraé Crouch, b. 1945 Topics: Angels; Atonement; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Moses; Blessing; Church Year Lent; Church Year Maundy Thursday; Covenant; Elements of Worship Assurance of Pardon; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Thanksgiving after the Lord's Supper; Faith; Forgiveness; God Changelessness of; God as King; God as Slow to Anger; God's Sovereignty; God's Word; God's Anger; God's Compassion; God's Faithfulness; God's Forgiveness; God's Generosity; God's Goodness; God's Justice; God's Kingdom; God's Love; God's Name; God's People (flock, sheep); Grace; Grave; Healing; Hope; Humanity Sustained by God; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Friend of Sinners; Jesus Christ Healer; Jesus Christ Teacher; Life Stages Family; Life Stages Generations; Life Stages Old Age; Life Stages Youth; Lord's Prayer 3rd petition (your will be done); Lord's Prayer 6th petition (save us from the time of trail…); Love; Mercy; Occasional Services Christian Marriage; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services Healing Service; Occasional Services New Year; Peace; People of God / Church Family of God; People of God / Church Serving; Prayer; Remembering; Salvation; Servants of God; Temptation And Trial; The Creation; The Fall; Victory; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 11-17; Year B, Ordinary Time after Epiphany, 8th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, May 24-May 28 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 21-27 Author of "Bless the Lord, O My Soul" in Psalms for All Seasons Born in San Francisco on July 1, 1942, and raised in Los Angeles, Andraé Edward Crouch was the son of bivocational-pastor parents Benjamin and Catherine Crouch. He has recounted that he received the gift of music as a child, when his father was called as a guest preacher and pastoral candidate to a small rural church that had no musicians. He began playing for them at the age of 11. He wrote his first gospel song at 14, and formed his first band, the COGICS, in 1960. In 1965 he formed The Disciples, which lasted until 1979, and as a protegé of Audrey Mieir, Ralph Carmichael, and other leading Contemporary Christian Music artists of the time, went on to win a total of nine Grammies, and numerous other awards. He wrote his first well-known song, "The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power", at the age of 15, but most of his songs that have gained congregational currency flowed from the years when he was active with The Disciples. After The Disciples were disbanded, Crouch continued his recording and performing career, and also became more active in church ministries. After his parents died (1993-94), with his twin sister Sandra he took over the pastorate at the church his parents had led, New Christ Memorial Church of God in Christ in Pacoima, California. In December, 2014, Crouch was hospitalized for treatment of pneumonia and congestive heart failure, and on January 3, 2015, he was readmitted to the hospital following a heart attack. He died there five days later, at the age of 72. His twin sister and co-pastor Sandra Crouch issued the following statement: "Today my twin brother, womb-mate and best friend went home to be with the Lord. Please keep me, my family and our church family in your prayers. I tried to keep him here but God loved him best."

J. H. Fillmore

1849 - 1936 Person Name: James H. Fillmore, 1849-1936 Topics: Biblical Names and Places David; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Mount Hermon; Biblical Names and Places Rahab; Biblical Names and Places Tabor; Church Year Advent; Church Year Baptism of the Lord; Covenant; Discipleship; Doxologies; Earth; Elements of Worship Call to Worship; Elements of Worship Gathering; God as Shield; God as King; God's Wonders; God's Armor; God's Compassion; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's Majesty; God's People (flock, sheep); Happiness; Joy; Judgment; Lament Community; Love; New Creation; Occasional Services Dedication / Consecration / Anniversary; Occasional Services Funerals; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Citizens of Heaven; Royal Psalms; Truth; Unity and Fellowship; Witness; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 26-July 2; Year B, Advent, 4th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 17-23 Author (st. 1) of "I Will Sing of the Mercies of the LORD" in Psalms for All Seasons James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer. John Perry

Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Topics: God as Loving Composer of "[Sing, praise, and bless the LORD]" in Christian Worship Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman

Joseph Gelineau

1920 - 2008 Topics: Anoint; Assurance; Baptism; Blessing; Christ the King; Creation; Danger; Death; Easter Season; Encouragement; Enemies; Evening; Fear; Funeral; God as Shepherd; Good Shepherd; Grace; House of the Lord; Joy; Love; Nature; Peace; Persecution; Providence; Rejoicing; Rest; Sickness; Thanksgiving; Trouble Composer of "[The LORD is my shepherd]" in Christian Worship Joseph Gelineau (1920-2008) Gelineau's translation and musical settings of the psalms have achieved nearly universal usage in the Christian church of the Western world. These psalms faithfully recapture the Hebrew poetic structure and images. To accommodate this structure his psalm tones were designed to express the asymmetrical three-line/four-line design of the psalm texts. He collaborated with R. Tournay and R. Schwab and reworked the Jerusalem Bible Psalter. Their joint effort produced the Psautier de la Bible de Jerusalem and recording Psaumes, which won the Gran Prix de L' Academie Charles Cros in 1953. The musical settings followed four years later. Shortly after, the Gregorian Institute of America published Twenty-four Psalms and Canticles, which was the premier issue of his psalms in the United States. Certainly, his text and his settings have provided a feasible and beautiful solution to the singing of the psalms that the 1963 reforms envisioned. Parishes, their cantors, and choirs were well-equipped to sing the psalms when they embarked on the Gelineau psalmody. Gelineau was active in liturgical development from the very time of his ordination in 1951. He taught at the Institut Catholique de Paris and was active in several movements leading toward Vatican II. His influence in the United States as well in Europe (he was one of the founding organizers of Universa Laus, the international church music association) is as far reaching as it is broad. Proof of that is the number of times "My shepherd is the Lord" has been reprinted and reprinted in numerous funeral worship leaflets, collections, and hymnals. His prolific career includes hundreds of compositions ranging from litanies to responsories. His setting of Psalm 106/107, "The Love of the Lord," for assembly, organ, and orchestra premiéred at the 1989 National Association of Pastoral Musicians convention in Long Beach, California. --www.giamusic.com

John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Topics: Church Year Ascension of the Lord; Church Year Passion/Palm Sunday; Evil; God as King; God's Sovereignty; God's Glory; God's Love; God's People (flock, sheep); Jesus Christ Mind of; People of God / Church Family of God; Royal Psalms; Year A, B, C, Annunciation of the Lord, March 25; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 3-9; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, August 28-September 3; The Annunciation Author of "Psalm 45 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal: "I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)] That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications. Emily Brink

Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Israel; Church Year Advent; Church Year Christmas; Disciples / Calling; Earth; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Enthronement Psalms; God as Judge; God as King; God's Reigning; God's Reigning; God's Triumph; God's Wonders; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Justice; God's Love; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Power; God's Strength; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Joy; Judgment; Justice; Mercy; Mission; Music and Musicians; Musical Instruments; New Creation; Occasional Services New Year; People of God / Church Witnessing; Rejoicing; Salvation; The Creation; The Incarnation; Truth; Witness; Worship; Year A, B, C, Christmas III, December 24 of 25; Year A, B, C, Easter, Easter vigil; Year A, B, C, Holy Cross, September 14; Year B, Easter, 6th Sunday; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 13-19; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12 Author of "Psalm 98 (A Responsorial Setting)" in Psalms for All Seasons Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Mary Louise Bringle

b. 1953 Person Name: Mary Louis Bringle, b. 1953 Topics: Acrostic Psalms; Alleluias; Church Year All Saints' Day; Church Year Easter; Church Year Trinity Sunday; Disciples / Calling; Elements of Worship Gathering; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Endurance; God Daily Experience of; God Desire for; God Light from; God as Creator; God as King; God's Sovereignty; God's Sustaining Power; God's Triumph; God's Wonders; God's Word; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Forgiveness; God's Generosity; God's Gifts; God's Glory; God's Greatness; God's Kingdom; God's Love; God's Name; God's Nearness; God's Presence; God's Providence; God's Way; Hymns of Praise; Jesus Christ Mind of; Life Stages Generations; Lord's Prayer 1st petition (hallowed be your name); Lord's Prayer 4th petition (give us today our daily bread); Occasional Services Christian Marriage; Occasional Services New Year; Occasional Services Thanksgving Day / Harvest Festival; People of God / Church Witnessing; Prayer; Rejoicing; Witness; Worship; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 3-9; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, September 18-24; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 24-30; Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, November 6-12; Texts in Languages Other than English Spanish Translator (st. 2) of "Te exaltaré, me Dios, mi Rey (I will exalt my God, my King)" in Psalms for All Seasons

Ruth C. Duck

b. 1947 Topics: Blessing; Church Year Easter; Elements of Worship Baptism; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration; Elements of Worship Testimony; Fear; God as Deliverer; God's Sorrow; God's Sovereignty; God's Wonders; God's Deeds; God's Faithfulness; God's Goodness; God's Love; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promise of Redemption; Gratitude; Life Stages Children; Love; Mercy; Poverty; Prayer; Return from Exile; Salvation; Ten Commandments 3rd Commandment (do not take the name of the Lord in vain); The Needy; Victory; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 30-November 5; Year B, Lent, 4th Sunday; Year B, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, June 19-25 (if after Trinity Sunday); Year C, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, July 31-August 6 Author of "Give Thanks to God Who Hears Our Cries" in Psalms for All Seasons