How the Enemy hates this hymn! Christ Shall Have Dominion. And there all we need is three friends, a guitar, and a hymnal or two–you can praise God with whatever is at hand. Same music as Onward, Christian Soldiers, by the same composer–Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame.
The Enemy just hates this hymn; the more often we sing it, the more he gnashes his teeth. It enrages his stooges here on earth. So let’s have it! Onward, Christian Soldiers, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy.
Our friend Mike has requested three hymns this weekend, so let’s start with this: Onward, Christian Soldiers, sung by the choir at Old St. Paul’s Church, Edinburgh.
This hymn fricasees apostate churches and surrender monkeys. They just can’t stand it!
This is the first hymn that came to my mind today–Onward, Christian Soldiers, performed by the kids at Fountainview Academy. Sabine Baring-Gould wrote scores of 19th-century hymns; Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan, wrote the music.
Considering our need for revival, and our need for the determination and the grit to see it through, this hymn is suitable to the occasion, don’t you think? Onward, Christian Soldiers, sung by the Sanctuary Choir at First Methodist Houston.
(Shout-out to Methodists: Asbury University, where they’ve announced that they’re shutting down the revival, is your college, folks! If you’ve got anything to say to them about this, now’s the time.)
Libs don’t like to hear this hymn, but we do: requested by Erlene and sung here by Tennessee Ernie Ford–Onward Christian Soldiers.
(I wonder how many of us never saw an old-fashioned record player like this. It was the music technology that my generation grew up with, folks.)
This is the kind of hymn that I grew up with–choir and piano, Onward, Christian Soldiers, at the Laodicean Church of God. It ministers to me just now.
I’m getting nowhere pretty fast today, I haven’t got a trace of an idea for a Newswithviews piece, and I’ve got another book to review for Chalcedon and I might as well get back to work on it… So I’ll see you later.
Onward, onward… Something’s got to keep me going. We all have work to do for Christ’s Kingdom.
The credits with this video went every which way. Maybe that’s what I liked about it. Onward, Christian Soldiers, featuring the St. Philips Boys’ Choir–I think.
A lot of squishy churches won’t sing this hymn anymore. Shame on them: they crave this fallen world’s approval.
Requested by Erlene, performed by the students at Fountainview Academy–Onward, Christian Soldiers.
Sing it louder, so those churches can hear you.
This is one of those hymns that makes Christ’s enemies gnash their teeth–Christ Shall Have Dominion. If it sounds like Onward, Christian Soldiers, that’s because Arthur Sullivan (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame) wrote the melody that’s used for both.
May Christ’s dominion come today.