Requested by Elder Mike: Buddy Davis sings I Wish the World Could Love Like Him. Well, we’ve got a long way to go in that respect, haven’t we? But we have to keep trying.
Requested by Elder Mike: Buddy Davis sings I Wish the World Could Love Like Him. Well, we’ve got a long way to go in that respect, haven’t we? But we have to keep trying.
Gee–what’s a suitable hymn for New Year’s Day? I had to rack my brain a bit before I came up with Deck the Halls. “Fast away the old year passes…” Yo, 2024–don’t let the door hit you in the kiester on your way out.
We are wide open for hymn requests, but as yet none have come in for today.
(I know, I know–up too late last night, weren’t we?)
Do any of you still have Christmas presents to unwrap? How many of you have dogs and cats to help you?
Patty and I are officially Hanging Out today. This year was a right stinker and we need a rest! And it’s sunny out today, so I can have a cigar. I’m convinced that time in the sun is good for me. I’ve just had six weeks in a hospital bed without it.
This afternoon we’ll watch a movie, and it sounds like spaghetti and meat balls for supper.
And yes, we’re still open to hymn requests. At least till New Year’s.
(Sorry, Susan! I made an error, jotting down your hymn request, so I couldn’t find it at first. Mistake corrected, here’s the hymn.)
Requested by Susan: I Stand Amazed, by the Norton Hall Band at Southern Seminary.
No hymn requests received, so I’m on my own. This hymn was in my mind when I got up this morning, so I’ve posted it–
Gloria in Excelsis Deo, sung by the Libera Boys Choir. Usually a Christmas hymn, but good for all the year.

(Rain, rain, rain… I could go back to bed…)
Elder Mike was wondering about hymns by Fanny Crosby that I’ve never posted. You know, she wrote eight or nine thousand of them. East to miss a few thousand of them. Some are still very popular today; some are forgotten.
I went into the archives and found that 20 Fanny Crosby hymns have been posted here; and I’m afraid a few of them have been posted very often (He Hideth My Soul, Draw Me Nearer, To God Be the Glory, and a few others).
Yes, I do repeat myself. I post my favorite hymns a lot.
But I want to post your favorites, too; I’ve always got my eye out for a hymn request. I wish all my readers would make one now and then. Maybe I’ve let myself in for a “Be careful what you wish for” moment–but really, I don’t see how we can have too many hymns.
Any Isaac Watts or Charles Wesley hymns out there that I haven’t posted yet?
Nathan and Lyle and friends, from Denton County, Texas, with some good advice: whatever the burden that’s hard for you to bear… Tell Jesus!
Y’know, we do want hymn requests. I wonder why we don’t seem to be getting many lately.
Here’s another one of those coincidences that happen a lot around here. Ina (in Scotland) requested Be Thou My Vision; and just a few minutes later, the bells at St. Francis’, just across the street, played it. Maybe they aren’t coincidences.
The hymn is 13 hundred years old and still going strong… all over the world.
Performed here by students at Fountainview Academy.
We have a hymn request from Susan–Hymn of Heaven, by Phil Wickham.
The hymn shop’s open all day, every day, open to all. Some readers have been here for years without ever making a hymn request. Don’t be shy!