There are so many beautiful renditions of this hymn. Here’s one by the kids at Fountainview Academy–What a Friend We Have in Jesus. This is a real Sunday school favorite; and a few people have told me they like it when I whistle it as I walk through their neighborhood.
Requested by Erlene–oh, this brings me back to Sunday school, on a sunny spring morning!–Draw Me Nearer, by Fanny Crosby, sung by the Celebration Choir.
Fanny wrote eight or nine thousand hymns, putting her long life to good use.
I think it’s been a while since I posted this hymn–a good old-fashioned hymn, Rejoice, Ye Pure in Heart, sung here by the congregation at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. This hymn was one of my favorites when I was a boy.
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.
An old Sunday school favorite: I taught myself the harmonica, trying to work out how to play this–
O Worship the King, played and sung the old-fashioned way by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
Lately I’ve been feeling like I’m lost in the woods at night and keep blundering into trees–and it hurts. I need my Shepherd! I need my lord Jesus Christ to take me by the hand and lead me out of here.
So here’s a hymn, it popped into my head–He Leadeth Me, sung by the Mennonite Hour Quartet.
Beautiful pictures. We used to have places like that around here, until enviro-hypocrites paved them over.
A classic hymn from 1890, by Fanny Crosby–one of some eight or nine thousand that she wrote–He Hideth My Soul, sung by Nathan and Lyle with family and friends: no hymn requests awaiting me this morning, so here’s one of my favorites.
No hymn requests this morning, so I’ve posted the first hymn that came into my head–an old Sunday school favorite, Trust and Obey. I don’t know who’s singing it, but they’re doing it just right.
If only we could do as the hymn recommends…
I could use God’s leading, just now; I feel almost like I’m stuck in a hall of mirrors.
Anyhow, here are the students from Fountainview Academy on a beach in Hawaii, with an old Sunday school favorite–He Leadeth Me.
I feel emotionally strung out this morning, and found it very hard to select a hymn. I’m also finding it hard to pray, so please pray for me.
Anyhow, here’s a Sunday school favorite, sung by Nathan and Lyle–Yield Not to Temptation. I wanted a hymn that wouldn’t make me cry; but this one did, after all.