Wendell Kimbrough
2 songs checked against the passage they lean on. Each one was graded on its own, against what that song does with the text.
How the 2 checks landed
- ~ FAITHFUL 2
This is a count, not a verdict. We grade songs, one at a time, against what each one does with the text. A tally of those checks describes a catalogue. It is not a judgment of the people who wrote or sang it, and no number here puts anyone on or off The List. Most drift is craft pressure, not deception. Read the proofs, not the arithmetic.
The songs
~ FAITHFUL
“Then At Last (Psalm 32)”
Wendell Kimbrough
Sing it. The title says Psalm 32 and the song is that psalm in a songwriter's words, including the parts about silence and a heavy hand that most settings drop. The welcome in the refrain is his addition.✓ The song keeps the psalm's hardest material: the silence, the wasting body, the heavy hand, and the horse and mule of verse 9, all of which most congregational settings drop
⚠ Psalm 32 addresses God directly from verse 3 to verse 7. The song speaks about God instead, so the psalm's second-person prayer becomes a first-person report
~ FAITHFUL
“Rejoice in All Your Works (Psalm 104)”
Wendell Kimbrough
Sing it. The title tells you it is Psalm 104 in a songwriter's words, and the words keep the psalm's most surprising move: God is the one asked to rejoice. The trinitarian ending is the church's addition, knowingly made.✓ The chorus keeps Psalm 104:31's direction: God is asked to rejoice in His own works, and the congregation's rejoicing is a second, answering line
⚠ The bridge names the Son, whom Psalm 104 never mentions. Colossians 1:16 supports the theology, but the line is the New Testament's, not the psalm's