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Singing is commanded in Scripture as a part of our worship, but it should be so much more than a duty-bound voicing of words.

Elly's post, Inspirational Young Man inspired me to write about the Choir of Hard Knocks. I watched the first of a series of five shows on Australian ABC television last night and it was wonderful. Tenor, singing teacher, and choirmaster, Jonathon Welch read an article in an old issue of Reader's Digest about a choir for homeless people in Montreal and returning to his hometown of Melbourne and wanting to do something to help disadvantaged people, decided to try it here.

What has happened to a society
That no longer reads poetry
Can they can no longer be
Moved by what they read?

Is it just not hip enough?
Hey a song without verse is tough.
Without verses of poetry