I have to go to the nursing home this morning; but first, a hymn.
Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee, music by Beethoven, sung by a multitude at the Royal Albert Hall, inspiration by the Holy Spirit–someday I would like to hear what this hymn sounds like when sung by a million of the saints in heaven. Wouldn’t you?
In the year that King Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up… Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here I am; send me. Isaiah 6:1, 8
It’s an awesome responsibility to speak God’s Word. Isaiah was terrified because he was, as he put it, a man of unclean lips: a sinner. But so are we all, and the King of Kings has given it to His church to proclaim both His glory and His right to rule.
Susan requested this hymn. Oddly, I was just thinking it was time to post it again–only I couldn’t remember the title. So thank you, Susan.
It’s Peep’s turn to go to the vet this morning, but first a hymn.
Blessed Assurance, one of the many classics by Fanny Crosby, is a hymn I’ve come to love. Here we have it sung by the kids at Fountainview Academy. Yes–beautiful.
Please bear with my hymn selection–Nathan (auto-harp) and Lyle (guitar) from Denton County, Texas, performing a classic 19th-century hymn, Revive Us Again. I will have to work two or three times as hard as usual this week, just to catch up, and I need reviving.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be late because I have to take Robbie’s sister, Peep, to the vet… for I don’t know what. I pray it turns out to be nothing. Peep is Patty’s little shadow who follows her everywhere she goes.
Faith of Our Fathers–I can hardly believe we used to sing this in assembly at high school, until the Supreme Court clued us in that “religion,” except for secular humanism, is not allowed in public places. Later they decided abortion was all right. Then some other things I will not mention.
Was it a different world? What happened to it while I slept?
Anyway, here’s the hymn, sung by the kids at Fountainview Academy.
Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, here performed by the Royal Choral Society, is about the best way I know of proclaiming the glory of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His sovereign right to the lordship of heaven and earth. We long for that day when He shall set His throne upon the mountains of the earth, and reign with judgment and with justice, with goodness and with mercy, forever. “The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.” –Isaiah 9:7
I couldn’t decide what I most wanted in a hymn this morning: to invoke the Lord’s might in our defense, or to proclaim His glory and His right to rule. So I’m going to do both.
King Alfred’s War Song says what needs to be declared: For the Lord is our defense–Jesu defend us! That will do for a prayer.
Here’s a Charles Wesley hymn I haven’t heard before: Come, O Thou Traveler Unknown, performed the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
For newcomers to this blog, we like to start each blogging day with a hymn, and we take requests. So if you have a favorite hymn or worship song you’d like to see posted here, just let us know.
This is a classic hymn, Sweeping Through the Gates of New Jerusalem, and yet no one seems to know exactly when it was first published. It’s also known as Washed in the Blood of the Lamb, and I first heard it on a “Lord Peter Wimsey” episode. This at-home version is by Darby and Orby Jack.
This beautiful old hymn from the 1860s still moves us today. I don’t know about you, but I need God’s guiding hand: need it every day.
This is performed here by the kids from Fountainview Academy. If the background scenery looks strange, it’s because they’re not in British Columbia, but visiting Hawaii.
O Light of the World, light thou my path!