Scripture tells us that believers should use Psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. (Ephesians 5:19) Most churches have the spiritual songs part down. What happened to hymns and Psalms? Many conservative churches sing songs like, “Beulah Land” or “There is Sunshine in My Soul” on a Sunday morning. Hymns like “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise”, “Jesus, Thy Blood and Righteousness”, or “Lord, Enthroned in Heavenly Splendor” are barely even known today, even when they appear in the hymnal. Psalms? Forget about it. You’re blessed if your church will even read a verse or two from a Psalm, let alone sing them as our forefathers did. This is all a reflection of a larger problem even in conservative churches.

Feminization of Church Worship
(HT: Towards Conservative Christianity)
From Doug Wilson, in Future Men, p 98:

Music has been one of the chief culprits in the feminization of the church. Many of the “traditional” hymns of the nineteenth century are romantic, flowery, and feminine. (I come, after all, to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses.) But the recent rejection of such hymns in favour of contemporary worship music has been a step further away from a biblical masculinity. The current emphasis on ‘feeling worshipful’ is frankly masturbatory, which in men produces a cowardly and effeminate result.

The fact that the church has largely abandoned the singing of psalms means that the church has abandoned a songbook that is thoroughly masculine in its lyrics. The writer of most of the psalms was a warrior, and he knew how to fight the Lord’s enemies in song. With regard to the music of our psalms and hymns, we must return to a world of vigorous singing, vibrant anthems, more songs where the tenor carries the melody, open fifths, and glory. Our problem is not that such songs do not exist; our problem is that we have forgotten them. And in forgetting them, we are forgetting our boys. Men need to model such singing for their sons.