There’s a precedent for our current practice of projecting the text for hymns and choruses on screens in churches today, and it’s not based on technology. Most of the old hymnals from the 18th and 19th centuries had no music, simply lyrics, yet they seemed to get along quite well. Their hymns frequently had more…
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Page CXVI Update
Page CXVI is offering free downloads of their first Hymns album starting April 27th in honor of their second Hymns II album. Neat naming convention, eh? It’s a pretty good set of songs, and well worth the cost of your time to download. Then buy the new album while you’re there.
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Debtor To Mercy Alone
Denise and I are doing the offertory at church tomorrow – she’s playing, I’m singing. The song we’re doing is one of my favorite texts, and I referenced it in an earlier post. The words were written by Augustus Toplady in the late 1700’s – 1771 to be exact. The tune is by Bob Kauflin,…
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Please turn with me…
… to page 746 in Our Own Hymn-Book as we sing about the sweetness of gracious meditations on God’s goodness. (Sung to the tune of “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing.”) When languor and disease invade This trembling house of clay, ‘Tis sweet to look beyond the cage, And long to fly away. Sweet…
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Library additions
Two more books were delivered today, and I am really looking forward to working through them. The first is “Our Own Hymn-Book,” and it’s subtitled “A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public, Social and Private Worship.” It was compiled by C. H. Spurgeon in 1866. This version is a reprint by Pilgrim Publications, BOX…
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New Hymns Project from Page CXVI
You may not know of Page CXVI. If not, they’re definitely worth a listen. They put out a CD of old hymns in new wrappers in 2009, including “Come Thou Fount”, “In Christ Alone”, “My Jesus I Love Thee”, “When I Survey The Wonderful Cross”, “Nothing But The Blood”, “Solid Rock” and “Joy”. They’ll be…
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Out of Ivory Palaces
We spent the evening with my parents, who are visiting for the Easter celebration. Our discussion turned to music, and Denise and I played a couple of songs for Mom and Dad, including one of Mom’s favorites, He Giveth More Grace. Dad asked if we had the music for his favorite song, which, unfortunately, we…
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Hosanna or No-sanna?
On which side of the coin was your church yesterday? Did you sing “Hosanna”? Or were you on the No-sanna side? Here’s what the gospel writers had to say (they ALL acknowledged the triumphal entry): Matthew 21: 9 “Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!…
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Today’s play list
As I write I’m listening to music from Sovereign Grace Music – two of my favorite newer albums (can we still call them albums?). Upward, the Bob Kauflin Hymns Project and Valley of Vision, based on the Puritan Prayers of the same name. Wonderful text, some old hymns and some new, great melody lines, all…
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The Palms of His Hand
Today’s reading passage in my project to read through the Bible this year was in Isaiah, chapters 46-50. It’s amazing how there is always something to take away, a phrase that strikes home, a glimpse into a deeper meaning from another reference passage, or maybe a thought of a hymn or other song, regardless of…
