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Showing posts with label Hymns; Crucifixion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hymns; Crucifixion. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 25, 2024

The Babe of Bethlehem

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Henry Beer wrote the following Christmas hymn. Beer was an elder of the Apostolic Christian Church , and according to the historian Perry A...
Sunday, September 01, 2024

Redemption

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Redemption by John T. Hocutt is a favorite Sacred Harp song with a sound message of Jesus shedding his blood for our redemption. It was fir...
Friday, March 04, 2022

In Remembrance of our Lord

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 ...in some hymns. 1. ’Twas on that dark, that doleful night When powers of earth and hell arose Against the Son of God's delight And fr...
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Lynching and Crucifixion

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On June 3, 2020, Chance the Rapper Tweeted: “Jesus was lynched.” I did not spend a lot of time reading replies, but it appears he got fairl...
Sunday, February 03, 2019

A Lamb goes uncomplaining

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Below is a lengthy hymn of ten stanzas – “A Lamb goes uncomplaining forth” – drawn from the German Lutheran tradition. The words were writt...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

A Dying Savior

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Anne Steele wrote the following long meter hymn, “A Dying Savior,” which was found in her Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional , 1760. It ...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

Sweet the moments, rich in blessing

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“Sweet the moments, rich in blessing” (or “Looking unto Christ”) was written by Walter Shirley, and appears as follows in A Select Collecti...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Happy Birthday, Isaac

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Isaac Watts was born on this day, 344 years ago. Watts was born in Southampton, England on this day July 17, 1674. He fell under conv...
Sunday, May 28, 2017

My faith has found a resting place

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1. My faith has found a resting place, Not in device or creed; I trust the Ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead. Refrain: I n...