Some of you will remember this hymn as the title music for The Vicar of Dibley, an exceptionally raunchy British comedy series.
But this is a lovely hymn, it’s the 23rd Psalm set to music, here performed by the choir of Wells Cathedral.
If this hymn doesn’t stir your soul, I don’t know what will.
My thanks to reader Linda Sorci for telling me about these psalms set to music, on Esther Mul’s youtube channel. And thank you, too, Esther.
Let me close out my blogging today with this psalm. Lord willing, I’ll be back tomorrow.Pray this poor mangled elbow lets me sleep tonight!
Worthy is the Lamb, by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir–see Revelation 5, in which only the Lamb, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ Our Lord, is worthy to open the sealed book.
And He is also worthy of all our love, our trust, our obedience, our fear, and we rejoice in Him Our Redeemer is mighty!
I feel the need of a hymn just now.
Here’s one I never heard before. It comes from the Old West, and was first sung to cowboys.
May our Father in Heaven hear us!
We used to sing this in my church, although the lyrics speak of the Holy Grail–a tradition which is not Biblical. But the concluding lines will work:
“Follow, follow, follow the gleam/ of the Light that shall bring the dawn.”
This is a dark age. We need God’s Word as a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path.
Sing louder!
I need to rinse my brain out, after that last post, and this old hymn will do it.
All these hymns come back to me from my Sunday school days–and the days of my church, before I went astray. And the church went astray. God has called me back, but my church is still out there making it all up as they go along.
But never mind. I have the tools now to praise God, and you who join in with me. And if that’s not a church, then what is?
Stuart Townsend and the Stoneleight Worship Band with How Deep the Father’s Love for Us, by reader request–and there go the waterworks. I never heard this beautiful hymn before, and it went to my heart.
“My sin upon His shoulders”–this is the core of our faith. This song has its lyrics deeply embedded in the Scriptures. Read ’em and see!
By reader request, here’s Chris Christian with Praise the Lord.
Take heart, take heart from this lyric: “He can work through those who praise Him.” That means us! He can work through us. Don’t ask me how; it’s enough that He knows how.
By reader request, here’s Higher Ground (I’m Pressing on the Way Upward), an old-fashioned gospel hymn–very soothing.
Keep those hymn requests coming, folks. If we ever run out of them, we can always start again.
What do you say to a bit of spiritual nourishment before we bite into the news of the day?
I picked this one myself because I finally caught up on all your requests, folks, and there weren’t any waiting for me this morning.
Whatever else you might say of Johnny Cash, he had a gift for gospel.