Flatline waffy-daffy churches really don’t like this hymn at all–but the rest of us love it: Onward, Christian Soldiers, performed here by the students at Fountainview Academy. With a piano in the middle of the woods, no less.
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By Request, ‘When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder’
Requested by Erlene, When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder–and I picked this rendition by the students at Fountainview Academy.
I wonder what kind of acoustics you get with a lake surrounded by mountains.
‘He Hideth My Soul’
Well, if people won’t show up to hear a Fanny Crosby hymn sung by the kids from Fountainview Academy, I guess they just won’t show up at all.
He Hideth My Soul, by Fanny Crosby. I sang this to a couple of deer once.
‘Wonderful Peace’
Well, I can’t force readers to enter the hymn contest, can I? It’s over on Sunday; and as of now, the leading hymn has 21 views. What can I say? Only a handful of reader request hymns.
Here’s one I never heard before–Wonderful Peace, sung by Fountainview Academy students visiting the coast of California.
By Request, ‘Fairest Lord Jesus’
Let’s get the hymn contest rolling again with this request from “thewhiterabbit”–Fairest Lord Jesus, sung by students at Fountainview Academy. That’s Seton Lake in the background.
I hope some of you who never comment will gird up your loins and make a hymn request. Hey, you might win the contest! And our hymns glorify our God.
By Request, ‘Be Thou My Vision’
How I love this hymn! And always have.
Requested by SlimJim, Be Thou My Vision, performed by students at Fountainview Academy. This ancient Irish hymn is some 14 centuries old–and loved more than ever, all over the world.
‘Once to Every Man and Nation’
I had never heard this hymn before. Click “CC” for lyrics: they are not easy, comfortable, “just be nice” lyrics. One thinks of the souls under the altar in Revelation 6, martyred, murdered, by a wicked world and waiting for God to avenge them.
Sung by students from Fountainview Academy, in front of the Colisseum–and we know what happened there, don’t we?
Note: The hymn contest is still on, but I haven’t received any entries yet today.
By Request, ‘Faith of Our Fathers’
Requested by Phoebe, sung by the students of Fountainview Academy, Faith of Our Fathers: a hymn that reminds us that sometimes the price of faithfulness is martyrdom.
Our country’s founders did their level best to create a polity in which there would be no martyrs, with a government that would protect religious liberty.
Any fool equipped with brute force can conquer someone, and stay in power until a stronger fool comes along; but “we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37). Persecution never stopped the growth of the Church; and be sure that righteous God will avenge it.
‘This Is My Father’s World’ (Fountainview)
I love this hymn! I’ve always loved it: This Is My Father’s World, an old Sunday school favorite, performed here by the students at Fountainview Academy.
We shouldn’t take the beauties of this world for granted. They are God’s conscious work, and He shares it with us.
‘To God Be the Glory’ (Fountainview)
I found myself whistling this yesterday, and with no new requests coming in today as yet, well, why not? To God Be the Glory, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy. Background sets by God the Father.