I don’t care if it’s not Easter anymore. Jesus Christ’s resurrection is the best news ever given to the human race, and it bears repeating.
So let’s have one of our favorite hymns: Christ the Lord is Ris’n Today! by Charles Wesley (1739), performed the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
No hymn requests have come in this morning, so I’ll go with an old Sunday school favorite–I Love to Tell the Story, sung by Alan Jackson. Is that a tear in his eye… or is it in mine?
Beautiful, soul-stirring–thanks, Joshua, for requesting it! Wayfaring Stranger, sung by Simon Khorolskiy. Just about brought me to tears; but swordsmen can cry.
The singer’s Russian (click CC for English lyrics), the song’s traditional American, and the hymn request comes from Japan. That’s good globalism, and only Christianity has it.
Erlene asked for this one, The Lighthouse, by John Starnes. Jesus Christ is our lighthouse. He also rescues us when we get shipwrecked.
The hymn shop is now open.
Okay, I’m all caught up on the hymn requests. This one is from Susan: All My Sins Have Been Forgiven, performed by Wheaton College students in the family room at College Church. I think I see a dulcimer in the orchestra.
Now we need some hymns for tomorrow’s blog. The hymn shop is open to all.
I never thought I’d find this hymn so quickly. Beverly requested it, but she didn’t have the title, only a line: “And did those feet in ancient time…” But I thought of another line that probably went with it: “In England’s green and pleasant land.” And between us, we found it.
Jerusalem–from a poem by William Blake, set to music in 2016 by Hubert Parry: it’s now known as the unofficial anthem of England.
And England has never needed it so badly as she needs it now.
We already have several hymn requests this morning, and I’ll post them all during the course of the day. And help me out, people! I’ll need about 400 views today to climb out of the hole.
How Firm a Foundation, by our dear friends and colleagues Joshua and Jeremy: click “CC” for the lyrics. Maybe someday we can get these guys to sing.
Here’s another hymn from the Voice of Eden–In God’s Green Pastures.
What I’d love to see today is a reader who’s never yet requested a hymn… finally requesting one. The hymn shop is open!
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.
No hymn requests this morning, so I reach into my bag of favorites and bring out… Oh Worship the King, sung by the choir at Pilgrim Mennonite Mission.
The hymn shop is now open.