My mother used to play this hymn on the record player as she did her housework. If she were still alive, she’d be 95 this month. This one’s for you, Ma.
Tennessee Ernie Ford–what a voice he had–sings Lord, I’m Coming Home.
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Encore, ‘Shall We Gather at the River’
There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most high… (Psalm 46:4)
I love this old hymn, and the way Tennessee Ernie Ford sings it. My Uncle Bernie, a good and godly man, used to play it in his car. I know I’ve posted it before–but what’s the harm in one more time?
‘Faith of Our Fathers’
Would you believe we used to sing this hymn in high school assembly? That was before we all learned that two or three atheists have the power to silence several hundred Christians.
Anyway, here’s Tennessee Ernie with Faith of Our Fathers.
Tennessee Ernie, ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers’
Okay, you powerless minority–let’s start our day with a little marching music: Onward, Christian Soldiers, sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Sorry: that characterization of American Christians as a small, powerless minority–it still rankles with me.
You know the parable of the talents (Matthew 25:14-30), in which the great lord, before embarking on a long journey, gives his servants sums of money and commands them, “Occupy until I come.”
If American Christianity truly is powerless against the onslaught of filth and apostasy, it’s because our churches, like the slothful and unfaithful servant who buried his lord’s money in a hole in the ground instead of putting it to work to earn more money, have failed to occupy. We have not used the talents that Our Lord has given us.
By Request, ‘The Ninety and Nine’
Thanks, Susan, for calling for this one–The Ninety and Nine, sung with an awful lot of power by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
“The ninety and nine” refer to the sheep who were not lost, in Jesus’ parable of the good shepherd and the one lost sheep.
Hey, everybody! Our Savior comes out looking for us, if one of us gets lost! And he keeps looking until He finds you, too!
Does your god do that?
Hymn, ‘Bringing in the Sheaves’
I’m all caught up on hymn requests, so I hope you don’t mind if I go with this–Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Bringing in the Sheaves. This is another one I’d like to hear 50,000 people sing at once.
Father in Heaven, help us hold out till the harvest!
Hymn, ‘The Old Rugged Cross’
By reader request, The Old Rugged Cross, sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford.
This hymn always used to make me cry when we sang it in Sunday school. It’s still a little hard for me. But I firmly believe that we should not withhold the tribute of tears from those we love–and should we not love our Savior?
And there goes the faucet…