As Americans we have not grown up in a place where outrageous cruelty, publicly carried out by the state, is an everyday occurance. But in the Roman world of the First Century, it was. And Our Lord Jesus Christ was crucified. Not for any wrong He ever did, but for our sins.
The Via Dolorosa, sung by Sandi Patti, memorializes this. I don’t find it an easy thing to contemplate. I pray I never do. Better to be in awe of it than to take it for granted.
Susan has been a bit under the weather this week, so I hope that hearing this hymn that she requested will be a comfort to her–It Is Well with My Soul, sung by the Three Tenors: Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, and Jose Carreras. Wow! And I do mean sung!
Getting back to Your Favorite Hymns, this is In His Time, by Maranatha! Latin. I can’t resist all those butterflies. God’s handiwork should indeed inspire us to grateful prayer.
Joyce mentioned this yesterday, When the Man Comes Around, by Johnny Cash. I thought I’d heard it before–but was I wrong! This worship song bowled me over. Made Revelation come to life.
Our list of Your Favorite Hymns has begun to grow again, but let’s keep loading up the wagon.
I think this might be the first hymn our friend SlimJim has requested, and I hope he likes the Johnny Cash rendition of Were You There?
Some of you yesterday helped re-load the Your Favorite Hymns wagon, we we have another two weeks’ worth. Come one, come all! The devil hates it when we get together to praise the Lord.
My list of Your Favorite Hymns is just about exhausted, so please, everybody, feel free to load it up again.
For now, we have He Is Here, by the Gaither Vocal Band.
Erlene mentioned this hymn yesterday and I just couldn’t get it out of my mind. We usually save it for Easter-time, but really the message bears repeating all year long.
Up from the Grave He Arose, sung by Voices of Eden–a glorious gift from our family in India.
This is No. 50 from the list of Your Favorite Hymns, so it’s time to add another 50. What we usually get is just a few readers suggesting lots of hymns. How about a lot of readers suggesting lots of hymns? We won’t run out of them!
But for today–Softly and Tenderly, sung by the Altar of Praise Chorale.
With this one I’ll have posted 50 of your favorite hymns (not counting special requests), and we’re coming near the end of the list–time to reload! If you’ve got some favorite hymns you’d like to see posted here, don’t be shy, just let us now.
For now: Yesterday, Today, and Forever, sung by the congregation at Faithful Word Baptist Church.
People first heard this hymn in 1907–Will the Circle Be Unbroken, sung here by Randy Travis. It’s on the list of Your Favorite Hymns, so here it is… by popular demand.
If you have a favorite hymn, or half a dozen favorite hymns, you’d like to share, just let us know. It’s time to re-load the list.