Tag: Christian hymns

Encore, Encore! ‘Revive Us Again’

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I know I’ve posted this before, but I need it today. And boy, if there ever was an age in which wholesale Christian revival was needed, it’s this one.

One of my chess buddies has suggested to me that I’d be healthier and happier if I stopped covering certain kinds of news stories, although he would miss reading them. He has a point there. But I feel it’s my duty to sound the alarm–and if no one’s listening, well, God won’t blame me for that.

Anyhow, here’s a hymn to give the soul a nice, vigorous rinsing.

You wouldn’t believe some of the stories I don’t cover.

Reader Request, ‘All to Jesus I Surrender’

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We can surrender all to Jesus because He is worthy.

It’s not like surrendering to any worldly power. What you give them, you never get back. But what we give to Christ becomes more truly ours than it has ever been before.

As Steve Brown says, “You think about that!”

Hymn, ‘The Love of God’

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Some hymn requests came in overnight, and I will get to them, never fear. But let’s start off the day with The Love of God, with Nate and Lyle and some of their family and friends.

Is this great, or what?

Because if anything is going to carry us through this evil age, it’s God’s love.

Hymn, ‘Trust and Obey’

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Children singing Trust and Obey–it brings me back to Sunday school.

What did Jesus mean when He said that unless we become as little children, we will not be able to enter the Kingdom of Heaven?

Something to think about…

By Request, ‘This Is the Day that the Lord Hath Made’

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You asked for it, Joyce, so here it is: This is the Day that the Lord Hath Made. Sorry it took so long, but I’ve got a backlog–which is a good thing.

Everybody out there, if you’ve requested a hymn, I will get to it, never fear. I have yet to turn down a request, so don’t be shy.

We sing like we pray–so God can hear us.

Time Out! ‘Be Thou My Vision’

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Let’s rinse out minds out after that last news item, shall we?

This ancient Irish hymn, from way back in the 8th century, gets requested all the time. It’s one of my favorites, so I’m always glad to post it. This version is by Jason Waller.

Think of it: just a few hundred years before this hymn was composed, the Irish were pagans and head-hunters.

May the Holy Spirit transform our nation!

By Request, ‘How Firm a Foundation’

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In the old Dutch Reformed Church, in which I grew up, but is no more, this hymn was sung to the melody of O, Come, All Ye Faithful. We have it here by request.

I have received a lot of requests for hymns today, which pleases me, and I’m saying yes to all of them. It may take me a few days, though, to get them all in. So if you don’t see the hymn you asked for right away, it’s all right–I will get to it.

I never thought I’d be doing this, on this blog: but I’m pretty sure it’s the right thing to do, and pleasing to God.

Encore, ‘I Sing the Mighty Power of God’

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I don’t know about you, but I need a hymn this morning. I think I may have posted this one some months ago, but it’s the one I want just now: I Sing the Mighty Power of God, with words by the old master, Isaac Watts, published in 1715.

Please feel free to request hymns to be posted on this blog. Lately everybody’s stopped doing that. I don’t know why. This fallen world hasn’t picked itself up and straightened itself out in the meantime.

Let me hear from you!

The Hymn Shop’s Still Open

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All right, I had to select this one myself–Yield Not to Temptation (1868), with Nathan trading in his auto-harp for a mandolin. I love the way this hymn sounds with a mandolin.

Funny about that 19th century: so many terrible ideas that have damaged the world no end, like Marxism and Darwinism; and yet so many beautiful hymns that we still love today.

The hymn shop is open to all, and I’m looking for requests, so don’t be shy! If there’s a hymn you want to hear, just scroll down and leave me a request. I’ll be sure to see it.

Hymn, ‘Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus’

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A good hymn to start the day with–and a reminded that all the great and powerful ungodly tyrants of the world today are gonna get it but good when He returns.

But there’s a condition: we have to stand with Him. It goes all the way back to Moses: “Who is on the Lord’s side? Let him come to me!”

Not the kind of sentiment you’re going to hear voiced much in one of those half-baked, go-along-to-get-along churches of the present day.

We should be honored and rejoice that the Lord wishes us to stand with Him. I mean, I sometimes wonder what He sees in us.

But stand we must–and sing louder.