I know it’s a bit early for an Easter hymn, but this is the one I wanted–Up from the Grave He Arose, by the Voice of Eden.
I’m getting kind of uneasy about my future, so please keep the prayers coming.
Category: religion
‘Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus’
This hymn was one of my Sunday school favorites: Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus. It came up as Susan and I were chatting on the phone, looking for a hymn to post. We didn’t have to look far, did we?
‘Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer’
This Welsh melody, Cwm Rhondda, provides the music for several hymns. Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer (shown here), Bread of Heaven, Guide Us O Thou Great Jehovah, just to name three.
Nothing like a Welsh hymn to gird your loins for the day.
‘O Love That Will Not Let Me Go’
I never heard this hymn till just now: O Love That Will Not Let Me Go, sung by students at Fountainview Academy. Do you like it?
‘How Firm a Foundation’
Well, I was waiting for some hymn requests to come along, but they haven’t; so I’ll just post one of my favorites.
How Firm a Foundation, sung the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band: another one of my harmonica hymns.
‘Alleluiah, Sing to Jesus’ (‘Hyfrydol’)
How about another hymn? This is one I love to play on my harmonica. It’s Hyfrydol in Welsh, and Alleluiah, Sing to Jesus in English. Sung hear by the choir at Chet Valley Church.
I know I post it fairly often, but I find it greatly comforting. I hope you do, too.
‘Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho’
Would you believe we used to sing this in public school? Mahalia Jackson (how did she do this without going short of breath?) sings it here: Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho.
Grade school and middle school, we sang spirituals and even hymns. It was a cleaner, greener time (as Rudyard Kipling put it–and he was right).
‘Bringing in the Sheaves’
I loved singing this hymn in Sunday school, enough though I had no clear idea what a “sheave” was.
Bringing in the Sheaves, performed by Marshall Hall & Friends: and yes, I found out what sheaves were by the time I’d learned to play the hymn on my harmonica.
Music That Glorifies God (And Makes Us Feel It)
I’m under orders from my wife and from my editor: rest! Get well.
That’s what I’ve tried to do today. It’s raining, but a break in the weather allowed me to have a cigar. And then we settled down to watch Babe.
The musical theme in Babe is an adaptation of Symphony No. 3 by Camille Saint-Saens, sung here by the Libera Boys Choir. It never, never fails to move me. We have the lyrics for you in the video. They’re in Latin, but you might find it surprisingly easy to understand.
And the movie itself is genuinely inspiring. I feel better for having watched it.
‘What a Friend We Have in Jesus’
I post this hymn even though it brings me to tears, more often than not.
What a Friend We Have in Jesus: sung by Alan Jackson. It used to break me down in Sunday school. It can still do that.