Well, that hit the spot! The hymn, that is. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther, presented by Reawaken Hymns–that’s what hit the spot.
Let’s turn the hymns loose today. There must be more of them out there that can refresh the spirit and restore the soul. [Requested by “Someone.” *Sigh*]
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?
Are those the walls of Avila? Makes you wonder what they were so afraid of.
Our mighty fortress is our God. I don’t know who’s singing in this video: but let all Creation sing.
The devil and his idiot servants hate to hear it.
God knows we need a mighty fortress. Devils on the loose, everywhere you look.
I don’t know who this is, singing the hymn, but it’s well worth hearing. Nor do I know the fortress in the picture.
But as a wise woman once said… “Sing louder!”
What could more tellingly testify to the victory of Jesus Christ Our Lord than Christian students singing God’s praises in the shadow of the Coliseum?
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, written by Martin Luther: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.
That’s the Coliseum in the background, of course–a symbol of the pagan Roman Empire, ruling the world by violence and superstition… and undone and converted by Jesus Christ and His servants.
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther, sung by the kids from Fountainview Academy on their trip to Rome.
What hymn would better serve us as an anthem? Requested by “thewhiterabbit,” A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther. YouTube doesn’t tell us who’s singing this; but I thought I recognized the walls and towers in the picture: “Those are the walls of Avila,” I mused, dredging up a memory from high school Spanish. And when I checked… that’s what they are, all right.
But the fortress that we sing of will never grow old.
Note the backdrop: the Coliseum, symbol of the power and might of Rome, where Christians were put to death for their faith–now a ruin.
Someday this hymn will be sung beside the ruins of todays globalist, humanist, pseudocivilization.
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, by Martin Luther; sung by the students from Fountainview Academy.
I could hardly believe my ears, the first time I heard this, Martin Luther’s hymn, being played on the bells of St. Francis’ Church, across the street from me: A Mighty Fortress is Our God. Pope Benedict XVI had some good ideas, and allowing this hymn to be played was one of them.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever heard was from a woman on a little 15-minute Christian radio show, years and years ago. When things get really hard, when your faith is stretched to the breaking point, she said… sing louder!
For we have a mighty fortress and the devil can’t prevail against it. And so this hymn, by way of emergency relief–A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, sung by the choir and congregation at First Plymouth Church in Lincoln, Nebraska.