Showing posts with label Hymns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hymns. Show all posts

Story of Carol 'O Holy Night'

O Holy Night is a well-known Christmas carol with amazing power to lift soul and bring tears to the eyes, send chills up and down the spine, and bring Christian believers to their knees or to their feet with applause, the song was the result of a joint effort between two men who, by some standards …

The Hymn “Jesus shall reign”

Text: Isaac Watts (1647-1748) Meter: L.M  Tune: Duke Street, Truro, Warrington,…  “Jesus shall reign” is one of the really fine hymns rooted in the language of Psalm 72, and it reflects an 18th-century vision of the world church. The hymn was written by Isaac Watts, who was a real master of English hy…

Hymn All People That on Earth Do Dwell

Words: William Kethe, 1560 Music: Louis Bourgeois's Genevan Psalter, 1551 This particular hymn is actually a Psalm, and it is actually a paraphrase, or a metrical rendering, of Psalm 100. Psalm 100 is a Psalm that has been a favourite Psalm to set to music by church musicians, I think, ever since…

Hymn O worship the King

Music has the wonderful ability to speak to our spirits and move us into a deeper worship of God. Especially the great truths of faith that are expressed in hymns. O worship the king is one of those hymns that will lift up your heart if you sing it in truth. This hymn, written and published in 1833,…

Hymn Great Is Thy Faithfulness

Words: Thomas Obadiah Chisholm Music: Rev. William H. Runyan (1866-1960) Tune: Great is thy Faithfulness  By Rev. William H. Runyan (1870-1957) Great Is Thy Faithfulness is a popular Christian hymn written by Thomas Obadiah Chisholm (1866–1960), who sometimes described himself as “just an old shoe,” wa…