No hymn requests as yet today; but this one was in my head yesterday: Blessed Assurance, by Fanny Crosby, sung by the Harpeth Gospel Quartet. Background scenery by God the Father. (Nine thousand hymns, Fanny wrote…)
Tag: Fanny Crosby
‘He Hideth My Soul’
No hymn requests this morning. Well, I can’t go wrong with a Fanny Crosby hymn, can I? Here’s He Hideth My Soul, sung by the Antrim Mennonite Choir. Background sets by God the Father, Maker of heaven and earth.
‘All the Way My Savior Leads Me’
Here’s a hymn by Fanny Crosby–one of thousands–that I haven’t heard before: All the Way My Savior Leads Me, performed by Andrew Hostetler. Psalm 23 (“The Lord is my shepherd”) is included with it.
‘Blessed Assurance’
A classic Fanny Crosby hymn, Blessed Assurance, performed by Nathan and Lyle and friends in someone’s living room–See? You don’t need a studio, or all kinds of gear. Not if it’s done with love.
‘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: ‘Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior’
Ah, a hymn request! From Elder Mike: Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior, sing by the kids at Fountainview Academy. This is one of some 8,000 hymns written by Fanny Crosby over a hundred years ago; and a lot of them are still sung all over the world.
‘Praise Him, Praise Him!’
Our friends and esteemed colleagues, Joshua and Jeremy Swanson, have an instrumental hymn for us–Praise Him! Praise Him!–with lyrics so you can sing along. This is another one of Fanny Crosby’s nine thousand hymns.
Oh, Those Coincidences!
This happens a lot, around here.
When I don’t find a hymn request waiting for me in the morning, I choose a hymn to post–usually the first one that pops into my head, without premeditation. And of course there are thousands and thousands of hymns to choose from!
So I post the hymn I’ve just thought of; and by and by I get a notice from a reader, “I was just about to ask you for that hymn!” It doesn’t happen all the time, but it does happen pretty often. Certainly often enough to notice.
It’s not like we have a limited selection. I post a lot of hymns I never heard before, because readers have requested them. Fanny Crosby alone wrote eight or nine thousand hymns: how long would it take us just to post all of hers?
I don’t make these coincidences happen. Maybe God does.
What do you think?
‘Blessed Assurance’
I don’t know about you, but right now I need all the assurance I can get. I’m just about tapped out.
This is Blessed Assurance by Fanny Crosby, published in 1873, sung here by the Harpeth Gospel Quartet. One of eight or nine thousand hymns she wrote…
By Request, ‘Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross’
We have a hymn request from Phoebe–Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross, a classic hymn by Fanny Crosby, sung by the Smucker Family.
It crosses my mind just now, “How good this is!” I’ll have to write about that a little later.