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Showing posts with label My hymns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My hymns. Show all posts
Sunday, October 06, 2024

Old Prospect Anniversary

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Not a great hymn for this Sunday morning, but rather one I tried to eke out in honor of our Church Anniversary. I wrote the music after our ...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

In Adam’s fall

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1. Die we all in Adam’s fall. Sickness, shame, and sorrow, too, All within, because of sin— What we are, and say, and do. 2. Mark it well, t...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Weeping in Ramah

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Weeping in Ramah, a Common Meter hymn written December 18, 2012. 1. A petty king whose heart inflamed Because a child was born; Deigned many...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

For Thanksgiving

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7s meter. Written November 19, 2022. 1. Come, ye thankful people, come Who have found a heavenly home; Laud him—loud his praises swell: “Jes...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Blessed, they that die

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Blessed Dead, Short Meter ( Revelation 14:13 ; 21:3-4 ), written January 17, 2020 “…Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from hencef...
Tuesday, May 09, 2017

The Providential Best

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The Providential Best. 8.8.8.6.D. (2006) 1. God, what Thou hast prepared for me, I do not know, I cannot see, But satisfied that it ...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Appreciation of God’s amazing grace

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The following hymn I wrote circa 1989. It is not Watts or Wesley quality poetry, but is a sincere expression of my appreciation of God’s ama...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

The Way of Life

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The Way of Life. 9s.8s. w/chorus (February 13, 2017) 1. The fine-spun web--the spider's token-- Is like the things we weave on earth....
Friday, November 11, 2016

A Time to Die

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I know there is a time to die. I don't know when, but I know why. The 'when' is settled in God's plan; The 'why' ...
Thursday, November 26, 2015

For Thanksgiving

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By the blog owner, Common Meter (25 Nov 2015)  1. Our God a gracious Saviour is,  A Shepherd and a King.  He lifts us from our miry pits...
Friday, July 03, 2015

The Rock

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The Rock, July 1, 2015. Common meter. 1. Our Rock is not like other rocks,  He is the Living Lord; He lives and reigns in heav'n abo...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

Rest on Jesus' bosom

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In memory of our loved ones, on the day of our Holleman cemetery homecoming: Rest on Jesus' bosom. 8s.7s. 1. Our favored ones have g...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

With shape notes and a Sacred Harp

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Here's a dab of doggerel for your day. Maybe some of you will enjoy it. With shape notes and a Sacred Harp . C. M. (April 22, 2015)...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Awesome God

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Written 20 Dec 2014, Meter 7s. 3 stanzas Awesome is our God alone. Creature, bow before His throne. Cast thy best before His feet; Seek...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Chilling winds and biting cold

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Chilling winds and biting cold, They will chill us to the soul; And our frozen hearts as well Are feeding on the depths of hell. With Thy Ho...
Friday, February 19, 2010

In a graveyard

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In a graveyard. 6s. (February 12, 2010) 1. Gone but not forgotten Engraved upon the stone But the stone was broken And lying all alone. 2. W...
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Thursday, August 06, 2009

Hymn book

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A Sheaf of Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs is back from the printer and available to those who are interested. It contains 300 Christi...
Friday, May 29, 2009

A Sheaf of Psalms

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...and Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Off-and-on over the course of about 6 or 7 years, I have quietly worked on a hymn book. I have mentioned t...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The cornerstone rejected

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The Stone which the builders rejected, being an imaginary meeting of builders to discuss selecting a cornerstone. When on one night the buil...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Junior moments

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These little "ditties" were written in May of my junior year in high school -- 1975 (and were never intended to be sung). I don...