Yes, I know I’m off to a late start. First I have trouble getting started, and then it’s trouble to keep going. Oh, well…
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty–this was another Sunday school favorite. It sounded even better when the whole congregation sang it .
I haven’t posted this one in a long time, have I? Amazing Grace, sung here by Alan Jackson.
Patty and I are still sick, I don’t know how we’re going to refill her prescription… so pray for us, please, if you can think of it.
This is one of my favorite hymns, written by John Bunyan, author of “The Pilgrim’s Progress”–Who Would True Valor See, sung with gusto by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
Hymn requests, anyone?
It’s been a while since I posted this–A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, with words by Martin Luther. This is theology for grown-ups.
Are those the walls of Avila, in the picture above?
What’s this–a Christmas carol in June?
Well, that’s exactly what it is, and I’ve posted it because I need it… and maybe that goes for a lot of us.
You don’t have to wait for Christmas-time to celebrate Christmas. The Dominican friars, with Good Christian Men Rejoice.
Our Lord Jesus Christ must be carrying me through this soul-trying time: I sure ain’t carryin’ myself.
Sing here by Calvary Free Presbyterian Church in Northern Ireland, Yield Not to Temptation was one of my favorite hymns in Sunday school and I’m still loving it today. Maybe because I need it so much more, these days.
I hope can remember how to post it.
Here’s a hymn from the Garden State Baptist Church in Old Bridge, just down the road from me–Yield Not to Temptation, by Horatio Palmer. How often we sang this in Sunday school!
I pray Our Lord Jesus Christ will carry me over the finish line.
I’m still posting Easter hymns, if anybody’s asking. Like this one: Victory in Jesus, sung by the Joslin Grove Choral Society.
“Green” and “green-ness”… that’s what Easter’s all about?
An “Easter Message” from the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, 2012… minus Jesus Christ. Looks like the bishop’s Easter train left without Him.
Most of the, um, “message” is about the United Nations Millenium Development Goals. No one talks about those anymore.
Anyway, this is the oldest Easter post on my blog. We can’t take our sacred holidays for granted, people. You can see what happens when we do: that bishop just showed us.
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name, written by Edward Perronet in 1780, was a favorite hymn at my old church, although with a very different melody.
Sung here by the Chet Valley Church.
It’s the day before Easter. Prepare to celebrate the kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ!