Requested by Susan–Long Black Train, sung by Chris Rupp and Tim Foust. You don’t want to get aboard this train.
The hymn shop is open and everybody’s welcome! If you have a favorite hymn you’d like to share, just let us know.
Tag: reader requests
By Request, ‘In God’s Green Pastures’
We have Christian brothers and sisters in India, and they can sing!
Requested by Phoebe, In God’s Green Pastures, sung by the Voice of Eden. (And where can I get a harmonica like the one they’re using here?)
By Request (!), ‘I Asked the Lord’
Finally this mess has been straightened out so that readers can send in hymn requests. There are still some problems with this site, but we’re working on it.
Requested by Erlene: I Asked the Lord, by Carroll Roberson.
Some of My Favorite Films
Our friend Mike has asked me to name the movies that I really like. Fair enough–although I have so many favorites, I couldn’t possibly name them all. So I’ll just trot out a few that would always be on the list regardless.
Scrooge. This is the 1951 “Christmas Carol” starring Alistair Sim. We make sure to watch it every Christmas. Nothing beats Alistair Sim’s performance.
Gunga Din. You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever. We might call this movie a celebration of male silliness–only it’s so much fun! I don’t know whether to call this “ham acting” or histrionic brilliance. Either way it works for me.
Jurassic Park. I can’t help it, I’m a lifelong dinosaur freak. But what I love even more about this movie is the way it totally shreds the whole idea that Science Is Always Right And We’re In Control And What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
Never Let Go. (1960) Peter Sellers takes a break from comedy to be a villain–and turns in a great performance. Richard Todd is the poor underdog who has to go up against a ruthless criminal. No kidding, it’s up there with The Iliad.
Treasure Island. The 1934 version, with Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and a fantastic supporting cast. Another one of my absolutely all-time favorites–starting with the titles (“Sixteen men on a dead man’s chest, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum”)! If this movie can’t crank you over, better see if you can still fog a mirror.
Jason and the Argonauts. Glorious musical score by Bernard Herrmann, and some of the best-ever special effects by Ray Harryhausen. See the colossal statue of Talos come to life! Fight off an platoon of animated skeletons! It just doesn’t get better than this.
The Uninvited. Understated film in black and white, widely regarded as one of the best ghost stories ever filmed. Starring Ray Milland and Cornelia Otis Skinner. No sex, no gore, no cussin’, no computer-generated razzle-dazzle… but really, truly creepy! Its reputation is well-earned.
That’s seven of my favorites. I could do this all day, but can’t spare the time.
Yo! out there! I’d very much enjoy seeing your list of favorites.
Not Quite by Request: ‘I Know Whom I Have Believed’
Sorry, SlimJim, but I couldn’t find the hymn you asked for. If you can send me a link to it, I’ll try again.
So meanwhile we have this, I Know Whom I Have Believed, sung by the Antrim Mennonite Choir. Background sets by God the Father.
By Request, ‘Increase Your Praises to Christ’
Requested by Susan–a great crowd of Egyptian Christians singing a hymn, Increase Your Praises to Christ, in the Cave Church, Cairo. The cave is in the Mokattam hills, where Pharaohs quarried stone for their monuments. The Christian community in Egypt is among the oldest in the world.
By Request, ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee’
We have this from Joshua, an instrumental by his cousin, James Swansom: Just a Closer Walk with Thee.
Please drop in a prayer for me today–my allergies are killing me.
By Request, ‘Friends Are Friends Forever’
Requested by Thewhiterabbit, Friends Are Friends Forever, by Michael W. Smith.
I remember the friends of my early childhood–David, Ellen, Gary, Frank, Jimmy. All long gone now, two of them dead, the rest scattered all over the continent: I’m the only one who’s stayed put. I remember.
By Request, ‘Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me)’
We have a hymn request from Susan to start the day–Glorious Day, also titled Living He Loved Me, performed by Casting Crowns.
If you have a hymn you’d like to share on this blog, just let us know by leaving a comment anywhere on this site and we’ll do the rest.
By Request, ‘Speak to the Mountains’
I’ve been very busy this afternoon. I have to edit Behold! and provide some material which our artist, Kirk DouPonce, can work up into a cover.
But we do have a hymn request from Susan–Speak to the Mountains, by Chris McClarney. You might find the lyrics reminiscent of a Psalm.