The preacher and choir director often collaborate to select hymns that reflect the Scripture and sermon: for example, “Faith is the Victory” for the theme of faith. Sometimes, though, they get it ...

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches. At 5 a.m. every day, Lü Xiaomin kneels on the floor in a dimly lit room of an ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) At any given moment, somewhere in the world, a congregation is singing one of Charles Wesley's 6,500 hymns. From Hark! The Herald Angels Sing to Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, ...

It’s hard to find hymns that embody Scripture’s sharp critique of the rich. When Mary came to visit, Elizabeth's child leaped in her womb. Mary's spirit, too, jumped to a higher plane. In the inspired ...

The doctrine committee of the US bishops' conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that Vatican II ...

I woke up one morning with a line from a hymn in my mind: “Keep us from our own undoing.” I looked it up in the Christian Science Hymnal. It’s from hymn 115 by John M. Neale (adapted from his original ...

The Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, will implement a formal ban this week on the singing of certain contemporary hymns at Mass because of doctrinal inaccuracies in their lyrics as well as a ...

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...

Scriptural sentences with interlinear translation, p. [7]-14; Exodus 20, p. 14-17; Psalm 51, p. 17-19; the Lord's prayer, p. 20; Hymns, p. 20-30 Pilling, J.C. Proof-sheets of a bibliography of the ...