I know I repeat myself a lot when I choose hymns to post, but I can’t help it–Jesus Saves is one of my favorites. Sung here by the attendees at Synod 2012 of the United Reformed Church in North America, held at Nyack, NY. I think that’s the Hudson River in the picture.
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Vintage 1890, sung by the Harold Miller Family: Where He Leads Me.
I don’t know about you, but a prayerful walk down that avenue of trees looks mighty appealing to me.
I found this video on Marcia Settles’ blog today (“A Mom Looking Up”), and I just had to find it on YouTube so I could share it with you all. (Note: I don’t know how to transfer a video from anywhere else.)
This was sung aboard a cruise ship with Acappella Singing Cruises–in a casino, of all places! A casino? Well, our Lord Himself attended a party at Matthew the tax collector’s house…
Anyway, it’s a flash mob singing Our God, He Is Alive; and there’s something about a great big bunch of people singing a hymn together that stirs my soul.
Thanks, Marcia!
A family hymn-sing with Nathan and Lyle–When We All Get to Heaven, one of those good old-fashioned hymns, one I’d never heard before.
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Have you head this hymn before? I Then Shall Live–performed at Christ Church by the Longboat Key Chancel Choir: the melody you’ve probably heard as Finlandia, composed by Jean Sibelius.
Fanny Crosby, born in 1820 and blind for almost all her life, wrote over 8,000 hymns, many of them still loved and sung to this day. If I posted a different Fanny Crosby hymn here every day, it would still take some 20 years to post them all.
This antique Edison recording was made in 1906, when Fanny Crosby was still alive to hear it.
This is for Erlene, one of her favorite hymns–well, for everybody, really.
This is a dear old Sunday school favorite–Wonderful Words of Life. Published in 1874, sung here by the Dallas Christian Concert Choir. Background sets and beauty by God the Father, maker of heaven and earth.
Requested by Jeremy (Joshua’s brother)–There Is Power in the Blood, performed by Alan Jackson, written in 1899 by Lewis E. Jones. I’d never heard it before Joshua requested it.
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This is one of the 8,000 hymns that Fanny Crosby wrote–Blessed Assurance, sung here by Alan Jackson. This stirs my soul; I hope it does the same for you.
Evelyn asked for this one–Yahweh, I Know You Are Near, by Dan Schutte. (I picked one with lyrics for you.)
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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!