Blessed is he that comes in the name of the LORD…
This one almost fell through the cracks–well, I don’t want that to happen. I try to post all your hymn requests.
This one’s from Erlene (and better late than never)–Baruch haba b’shem Adonai, by Paul Wilbur.
Okay, as of now, the hymn contest is up and running. Erlene requested this hymn yesterday–Adonai by Paul Wilbur–so I’m putting it in this morning as our first entry.
The contest will run till August 8 (our wedding anniversary).
The winner will be whoever requests the hymn that winds up getting the most views on the day it was requested. So you see we could have a new leader every day. If this rule isn’t clear, please let me know and I’ll try to explain it.
The winner will get either an autographed copy of one of my books or a cool T-shirt that says “If they have to kill us, they’ve lost”–your choice.
This will work just like our annual Christmas carol contest, only it’s starting in July so you don’t need a scarf and mittens.
Two readers called for this one on the same day, so here it is: Baruch haba B’shem Adonai, by Paul Wilbur (“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord”).
“Your Favorite Hymns” is for everybody. If you’ve got a hymn, or two hymns, or half a dozen of them that you’d like to share, just let us know.
Requested by Erlene–I Enter the Holy of Holies, by Paul Wilbur.
The holy place today is entered in the spirit; but someday the Mountain of the Lord shall rise.
This is Paul Wilbur, in Jerusalem, performing Baruch ha ba B’shem Adonai (“Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord”). Requested by Erlene.
Erlene thought it might be good to post this again: Days of Elijah, Paul Wilbur, full orchestra, and who knows how big an audience singing and dancing in the aisles. Normally I post the video with U.S. Marines singing it.
Wow! If this worship song doesn’t pump you up, I don’t know what will. It’s going to be in my head all night, but I don’t mind a bit. Turn up the volume!
Erlene and Linda both asked for this one: For Your Name is Holy, by Paul Wilbur. The video portion is from the 2000 movie, The Apocalypse, with Richard Harris as St. John the Evangelist. Harris saved up an awful lot of good acting for his old age. But of course the real business at hand here is Revelation itself, which Paul Wilbur has celebrated in music.
I have two hymn requests this morning, and this one is from Linda–For Your Name is Holy, by Paul Wilbur. That’s Richard Harris in the video, playing St. John in the movie, Revelation: well worth seeing.
Now I have to go to the bank and work on Aunt Joan’s finances. I hope I can get it done quickly.
Just to get our hearts in the right place–and our heads!–in spite of the impending presidential election, Baruch Ha Ba B’shem Adonai–in English, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord–sung by Paul Wilbur, from Jerusalem: suggested by Erlene.
Does anyone mind another worship song today? This is For Your Name is Holy, sung by Paul Wilbur, suggested my Linda.
The accompanying video is from a 2000 film, The Apocalypse (also presented as The Book of Revelation), starring Richard Harris as St. John the Evangelist.
Some Christians don’t approve of movies based on Scripture. That’s no idle objection: it’s so very easy for a movie to get it wrong, and that’s something you don’t want to do with the truth of God’s word.
But there’s also something to be said for a work of art that moves the viewer to see Revelation as if for the first time, and to feel something of what the old apostle must have experienced, alone and exiled to a tiny island, when he was given such a vision of Christ’s glory. Even more of a vision than the one received by the prophet in Isaiah 6. These are things very, very hard to capture in words alone–and do we not greatly desire to capture them?