Shane & Shane release new album of psalms


Kurt Neuswanger • July 30, 2021
Shane & Shane are a pair of worship leaders: Shane Bernard is the lead singer and songwriter. Shane Everett provides harmonies.

They have just released a new album called “Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, Vol. 1.”  

Here is the background story for a few of the songs, as told by Shane Bernard:


It was about 8:30 a.m. when I woke up in my tour-bus bunk to a text from my mom: “Your dad had a heart attack last night.”

During the next 24 hours doctors ran a slew of tests and ultimately determined that overnight hemorrhaging in his brain had caused too much damage. The final moment came when the doctor stepped in and told us that Dad had died.

Mom started to yell at the doctor, beat on his chest, and got weak in her knees. I wrapped her up as she uncontrollably wailed her complaints to God.

Then the strangest thing happened.

I started to hear a song. I hadn’t ever heard it and Mom had never sang it before; but right in my ear, as I held her tight, in minor notes of groaning she began to cry: “He gives! He takes! Blessed be the name of the LORD” (Job 1:21).

   Your steadfast love never ceases 
   Your goodness, God, Calling me to rest 
   Your mercy just when I need it 
   How great is Your faithfulness

Living Water (Psalm 46)

A dear friend called me and said “I had a dream that had a chorus in it” and he sang it for me, and it was all about living water.

   There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, 
       the holy place where the Most High dwells.

Psalm 90 (Satisfy Us With Your Love)

Psalm 90 says “You have been our dwelling place”! And now we can sing this song thousands of years later knowing that our dwelling place, our hiding place is alive! His name is Jesus. And He is our shelter. He has sheltered us from the wrath of God.  

   Lord, you have been our dwelling place
       throughout all generations.

Psalm 42 (Loudest Praise)

I was singing through Come Thou Fount and man, it has been a tough season, and so the lyric of Come Thou Fount was not where my heart was at. I wasn’t feeling like saying “streams of mercy, never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise.” What my heart was feeling in that moment was “streams of trouble, never ceasing.” So I opened up to Psalm 42 and began singing the scriptures. I’m just saying, “Soul, trust in God.”

   Why, my soul, are you downcast?
       Why so disturbed within me?
   Put your hope in God,
       for I will yet praise him,
       my Savior and my God.


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