‘Draw Me Nearer’

A classic hymn by Fanny Crosby, we have it here as song by the choir at Technical University of Mombasa–all the way from Kenya.

Draw Me Nearer, Blessed Lord: it’s an old Sunday school favorite.

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

Oh, this is one of my Sunday school favorites! Thank you, Erlene, for requesting it: Draw Me Nearer, by Fanny Crosby. Sung by students from Fountainview Academy. I really ought to post this hymn more often. How it sweetens the morning!

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

Requested by Erlene–Draw Me Nearer, one of six or seven thousand hymns written by Fanny Crosby. For me it’s a Sunday school favorite: brings me back a long, long way.

Prayers for all: we all need ’em.

‘Draw Me Nearer’

This is the first hymn that popped into my head today, an old Sunday school favorite: Draw Me Nearer. Sung here by students from Fountainview Academy.

The guy’s coming over this morning to install our new computer, etc., so it won’t be easy to keep the blog going. I’ll do my best.

‘Draw Me Nearer’

A Fanny Crosby hymn and a Sunday school favorite, Draw Me Nearer, Blessed Lord–sung by the choir at Calvary, Free Baptist Church, in Northern Ireland. This is just one of some eight or nine thousand hymns Fanny Crosby wrote.

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

That last nooze story really cheesed me off–not good for the ol’ blood pressure. I turn to a hymn as an antidote.

Requested by Phoebe, a classic hymn by Fanny Crosy, a Sunday school favorite–Draw Me Nearer. And I wish I could tell you who was singing it, so we could thank him. Well, thank you, whoever you are.

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

Requested by Erlene–oh, this brings me back to Sunday school, on a sunny spring morning!–Draw Me Nearer, by Fanny Crosby, sung by the Celebration Choir.

Fanny wrote eight or nine thousand hymns, putting her long life to good use.

By Request, ‘I Am Thine, O Lord’

Requested by Erlene, another Fanny Crosby hymn–I Am Thine, O Lord (Draw Me Nearer), sung by the congregation at Southwest Baptist Church in Oklahoma City. It might be a little hard to make out all the lyrics, but there’s something to be said for a church packed chock-full of Christians singing a hymn.

Anybody out there want to go for a third Fanny Crosby? The hymn shop is open.

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

Requested by Erlene, written by Fanny Crosby in 1875–Draw Me Nearer, Blessed Lord, sung by the Sanctuary Choir at the First Methodist Church, Houston.

Why do we have a hymn contest? To glorify God, to show Him that we love Him, and to do something together that reflects our Christian fellowship.

By Request, ‘Draw Me Nearer’

How about an old Sunday school favorite? Requested by Erlene, Draw Me Nearer–one of some eight or nine thousand hymns written by Fanny Crosby, sung by the Celebration Choir. You might want to turn up the volume on this one.