I hope you folks out there aren’t getting tired of my hymn selection, or of these videos from Fountainview Academy, British Columbia. I saw this, their rendition of To God Be the Glory, and couldn’t resist posting it.
Have you noticed that whatever adults there may be training and conducting these kids, you never see them on the video? I salute that!
This ought to pep up your spirit–the kids from Fountainview Academy singing Marching to Zion: words by Isaac Watts back in 1707–the hymn has staying power!–with melody by Robert Lowry, 1867. Background scenery by the Making of heaven and earth.
Go ahead and try not to be moved by this! A Mighty Fortress is Our God, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy–and in the background an image of the Coliseum, scene of human sacrifice to the false god of the Roman state: overcome and brought to nothing by Jesus Christ the Son of God.
For our fortress is built without hands, that no hands can destroy…
How I love this hymn! Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. I’d never heard it, until I heard Lillian Gish and Robert Mitchum sing it in Night of the Hunter. I’d sing it myself, only it chokes me up. So here let it be sung outdoors in British Columbia by the students at Fountainview Academy.
Philip Bliss wrote this hymn in 1874, and was astonished when his state Sunday school association offered to pay him to sing it at their annual meeting. And from then on it’s been a favorite–Wonderful Words of Life, here performed by the students at Fountainview Academy, British Columbia.
If this isn’t one of your favorite hymns, one that moves you every time you hear it, I can’t help it–What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Here performed by the students at Fountainview Academy, outdoors in British Columbia.
A lot of you have been loving these hymns performed by the students at the Fountainview Academy, so here’s another one: The Church Has One Foundation.
All that lovely scenery, by the way, is in British Columbia. God put it there.
I can’t imagine how they make the acoustics work, but these kids from Fountainview Academy perform their hymns outdoors: here, Rock of Ages.
As much as I love geology and paleontology, I have to admit I’m now with William Jennings Bryan on this one: I’m much more interested in the Rock of Ages than the age of rocks.
There Is a Fountain, by William Cowper, published in 1772: Mr. Cowper was an exceedingly troubled man, even suicidal, whose life was, ironically, saved when he fell into a temporary bout of madness. He came out of it a man of greater understanding; and he began to write hymns, starting with this one.
Sung by the choir from Fountainview Academy–beautiful!
Fanny Crosby wrote this hymn in 1875, and it remains well-loved to this day: To God Be the Glory. I like to post assorted renditions of it. Here it is sung outdoors by the choir from Fountainview Academy.
Remember, the hymn shop is always open, and if there’s any hymn you’d like posted here, just let us know.