Neal Shoemaker

Composer of:
• I Hear the Accuser Roar
• High Beyond Imagination
• Praise the Savior, Now and Ever
• ...a number of other hymn and psalm tunes.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@jaredcwilson Fine, I’ll look at people, but I can’t promise eye contact.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Looks great!

[Grange Press @Grange_Press]

A closer look at The Psalms of David in Metre (Split-Leaf). Less than a week until these become available for purchase at https://t.co/JNYSHqSPDS!

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@ThomasERickard What happened? Did you take modifications that were approved at this recent GA and apply them immediately to the existing BCO in your app? Something like that?

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@romerogamesltd @idSoftware I never knew him, never met him, and somehow still miss him. I loved his music growing up, and what little I’ve heard from him as a person was nothing but professional and warm.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

“For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

“He died for us the cursed death we deserve and lived for us the obedient life we fail to live.”

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Fascinating. Nice find. I’m curious what quality control measures they use. Were there two different sources supplying the lyrics for the same song? Were there two printing periods within the same year after a correction was made?

[Gabriel Hughes @Pastor_Gabe]

So we found a problem in the Sing! hymnal this morning.

Verse 2 on “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” is different between the pew hymnal and the spiral bound the musicians use. They were both printed in 2025, so how did that happen!

(We prefer, “Here I raise mine Ebenezer…”)

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

The music was great on the opening night, but you really had to be there. #pcaga

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Er, it changed to a jazz piece now. That’s nice, too, but the piece I was referring to was “Down by the Salley Gardens.”

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Wow, nice intro music, #pcaga ! This is the song I used to use when introducing voice lessons for my students.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@RScottClark Well, as R. C. Sproul said, “Everyone’s a theologian.” 😉

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

35 in Trinity Psalter Hymnal. In digital and print. Bass clef, first system. There is, uh… a sneaky little “4.” hiding behind the key signature.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

538 in Trinity Psalter Hymnal. In digital and print. End bar line looks strange. The smaller middle note of chord is not a problem, but the offset and its abnormally long stem are.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Psalm 48A in Trinity Psalter Hymnal. Second system, 7th beat. Why does the beam go upwards (red) when connecting to a note that is lower? It should be going down (green). I wonder if this was a mistaken manual override? What software was used to enter this?

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Trinity Psalter Hymnal. Tune: CONSTANCE. Numbers 136 and 475. 2nd beat of 4th system. Left hand. G and B-flat in one, G and G in the other. Which is correct? I believe the former.

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Sheet music eagle eyes. That’s also in the printed version, just FYI. If you need a hymnal proofreader, send my name along, would you?

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@AlyStan95798 W— what comes out of the shaker?!

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

@OrthodoxPC Great singing!

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

Has a non-constitutionally binding DFW meant that all this time errant practice could not be curtailed? Did it foster a “Show me where it says I can’t” mentality?

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

When the DFW is made constitutional, what actually changes? I guess it’ll be nice to be out of limbo, but after it’s all said and done, what changes? Anything? Are churches going to change how they worship or what they do in worship? Just curious. #pcaga

[Neal Shoemaker @nealshoemaker]

“Some sessions will need to discuss what it means for their congregation. Some churches will discover that certain inherited patterns need to be strengthened, clarified, or reconsidered.”