Sentences with phrase «for hymn singing»

Methodism is known especially for its hymn singing, and as we have seen Charles Wesley wrote some six thousand hymns.

There may be some who, even after all this evidence, would still argue the case for hymn singing.

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For two hours, protesters sang hymns, prayed and chanted «Freedom of worship!»

«And by putting familiar hymns to new music often people slow down and think about what they are actually singing... the meaning takes on fresh life for them.»

Song books no longer used, use of overhead projectors for songs, very little singing of familiar hymns, taped music, piano playing for maybe one song, no longer have a choir, altar removed, one strong Sunday School class broken up, to name a few things happening.

At age fifty - eight, he invited gospel singer Mahalia Jackson to record with his band, and Ellington was so delighted with the resulting version of his hymn «Come Sunday,» performed mostly unaccompanied, that he brought Jackson back to the studio the next day to sing it again — not for the record, but just for him.

They sing hymns accompanied by a piano, and no one leads the singing, and they sound shrill and awkward and I kind of love them for it.

A few years ago when the number of languages into which it had been rendered was approaching the one thousand mark, it was decided to publish a volume in celebration of that event, to be called The Book of a Thousand Tongues, based doubtless upon the old hymn, «O, for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise.»

For example sat quitelly when people were asked to stand or kneel and remained silent when hymns were sung.

It may be difficult for many choirs to jump from singing hymns to singing introits, but a start can easily be made by singing the texts to a simple psalm tone.

I am sure it would be a powerful motivation for many if they were to realise that singing the texts of the Mass would mean that there need be no further arguments about which hymns should be chosen.

This should prompt reflection among Christians, for the world has always doubted whether Christians» who, after all, like to sing such hymns as «I'm but a....

As she continues to read, we hear about Paul's incarceration and persecution, about how Jesus is «the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation,» about watching out for all those false teachings that circulated through the trade routes, about how we ought to stop judging each other over differences of opinion regarding religious festivals and food (I blush a little at this point and resolved to make peace with some rather opinionated friends before the next sacred meal), about how we should clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, and love, about how we must forgive one another, about how the things that once separated Jew from Greek and slave from free are broken down at the foot of the cross, about how we should sing more hymns.

The advantage of doing so is immediately apparent: rather than choosing an opening hymn, and later arguing about whether it was too happy - clappy or too sombre, the choir simply sings what is set for the Mass of the day.

The Ekklesia Project has also produced about a dozen booklets, with more to come, on specific practices of the church, such as preparing for marriage, hymn - singing, reading scripture, evangelizing and so on.

After this, four parakeets play on tiny bells the hymn «I sing because I'm happy / I sing because I'm free / For His eye is on the sparrow / And I know He watches me.»

A casual reading of such scintillating novels as Ragged Dick and Mark, the Match Boy reveals how Alger created a virtual American mythology of success, the praise of which surely rivaled the hymns sung for Athena in ancient Athens.

Susan's memory for details of her childhood — and particularly for the lyrics of hymns she sang many years ago — is remarkable.

He has edited collections of songs and hymns from the world church (distributed by GIA Publications and Iona Books) and written The Singing Thing: A Case for Congregational Singing.

Or the secularist may argue that we believe in God because we want to claim Divine sanction for our worldly interests and desires, and points to the allied and German soldiers in World War I singing hymns as they tried to kill each other, and the religious believer shakes his head sadly and admits that many Christians have done this from the beginning.

Think, for example, of the spiritual lift which comes from being a part of a congregation singing the mighty Easter hymns of renewal.

They sang for about 20 minutes, which is typical for most churches, with a good blend of contemporary songs and hymns.

Though we might not want to call up all our friends tonight and ask them to gather around the living room piano for a group hymn sing, we can use the hymnals for powerful corporate and personal use in other creative ways.

As the co-writer of «In Christ Alone» Keith Getty has remarked on the need for children to sing complicated hymns: «By engaging in something fundamentally, and yet enjoyably, higher than their own life stage, children learn a key lesson: that life is deeper.

The prayers include the Magnificat, the familiar «Holy Michael, Archangel, defend us in the day of battle...» and a rather good hymn which can be sung to the tune of Come, Holy Ghost and is specifically aimed at begging for protection on unborn children.

Perhaps it was a noble attempt to fulfil the council's request for full and active participation that found us singing hymns at the Mass..

Below are selected excepts, written by Bill, from his «notes for the service,» and a selection of the hymns and songs that were played and sung with his explanation why he chose them:

What if eternal life is about energy going back into the collective consciousness, and not a set of wings and a mansion on a golden street, and singing hymns for eternity (I guess you don't need the mansion if you're always outside singing hymns, but...)?

hymn, n [from the Latin hymnus, song of praise] 1: a song of praise to God 2: a metrical composition adapted for singing in a religious serviceFor centuries, Christians have sung hymns in order to praise God.

No heavenly glance or any other token of the incommensurable betrays him; if one did not know him, it would be impossible to distinguish him from the rest of the congregation, for his healthy and vigorous hymn - singing proves at the most that he has a good chest.

Leading presenter Aled Jones will also recall being invited to sing for her personally in her Kensington Palace living room, while the congregation of All Saints Church, Northamptonshire - near her Althorp family home - sing favourite hymns.

He leads the singing, spontaneously calling for a medley of hymns, while the musicians try to keep up.

During a court recess, a fellow pastor took the stage to pray for the nation, and the large audience began singing the lines of a well - known hymn: «Zimbabwe must be saved.

Clemente's devoted mother, Luisa, told biographer Kal Wagenheim that Roberto had a favorite Christian hymn as a boy, which he continued to sing and play on the organ of his home for his family, as an adult.

It is unlike it at several important points: (1) it is engaged in not alone but with other people, some and perhaps many of whom are likely to be strangers; (2) it is conducted by someone usually a minister or priest — and is channeled through regular forms; (3) there are appeals to the eye in the sanctuary's architecture and appointments and to the ear in music and spoken word which are not usually present in private worship; and (4) in the singing of hymns and the unison repetition of prayers and responsive readings there is opportunity for corporate vocal self - expression.

Assembling together is more than sitting in a pew for 2 hours a week and singing hymns or listening to the preacher.

He states, and for the most part I agree, that: Assembling together is more than sitting in a pew for 2 hours a week and singing hymns or listening to the preacher.

I'm still inclined to believe «Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries» and steadfastly sing the classic Latin hymns I learned in choir — albeit alone in the shower, because our crazed liturgists have decreed «Amazing Grace» fit for corporate worship.

They sang hymns together, committed themselves to the Lord once more and eagerly prepared for their longed for visitors.

«Glory for me», the old gospel - hymn is supposed to have sung — but the very words show that the hymn is not about the gospel, for the gospel speaks of «Glory to God», in whose «glory» all good is contained.

It also explains why we have prayers said by minister and people, hymns that are sung, movement from place to place in the church building for particular purposes, like the taking of the collection, or other necessary actions.

It must be done for the purpose of having a child only, and it must be done with the lights out, in missionary position, mostly clothed, while singing bible hymns.

I am indebted [249] to O. I. Cricket Harrison for an insightful hymn text that sings of the «Restless Weaver, ever spinning threads of justice and shalom, dreaming patterns of creation... gathering up life's varied fibers — every texture, every hue.»

The melodies of the hymns remained largely inscrutable to my untrained ears, except for when the director of music, (raised Pentecostal), threw in an «Amazing Grace» or «Rock of Ages» and I sang loud and badly just to hear my voice grip those solid words again.

i, and i've met many more besides just myself, frankly loathe most of the stuff that passes for music in the churches i've experienced (which are broad)... i love some of the old hymns or some new ones with a bit of content, but frankly most is pretty poor... i recognise this is just my opinion, but there in lies the problem, like i said, music is divisive... only churched kids really get the singing thing and half of them aren't bothered.

Take for instance the very uninspiring eulogies of a serving member of the National Assembly, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi, who flew to London in company with other perverts to sing hymns of praises for a Nigerian ex-convict and fugitive.

Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «singing a hymn of praise for my old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the old O - level.

At one point the religious right started singing hymns in the hallways so the two of us, having sung in church choirs for decades, joined in with them.

But the Greens are determined to sing from a different hymn sheet as they launch «Greens for a Better Europe» - their own campaign for Britain to stay in the EU.

But the PM might not have bargained for one of his own senior MPs singing from a different hymn sheet.