Sentences with phrase «great hymns»
The phrase "great hymns" refers to religious songs that are highly regarded or admired by many people. Full definition
Pastor Crouch has been called «the godfather of modern gospel music» and Billy Graham called him the «greatest hymn writer of his generation».
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They have an image of a never - ending sing - along in the sky, one great hymn after another, forever and ever, amen.
The Book of Psalms is the hymnbook of the second Temple, erected after the return from exile, and in it we have a compilation of great hymns through which the people voiced their aspirations, their thanksgivings, their plaints, their trust in Yahweh in the midst of both joy and adversity.
Although accommodating various musical forms, it, like the Second Vatican Council, sees in Gregorian chant a kind of universal Catholic musical grammar; at the same time, it welcomes more modern chant forms and seeks to incorporate into Catholic worship the great hymn traditions of other Christian communities.
As Mary said in her great hymn of praise, the Magnificat: «He has shown the strength of his arm.
Evidently, you have never heard of John Newton — the former slave trader gave up that vocation upon coming to understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, became a clergyman, and wrote the words of the great hymn «Amazing Grace» to celebrate and glorify God's unfathomable ability to FORGIVE — which hymn then became an anthem of the Christian anti-slavery movements in both Britain and the United States.
What Christianity would have been like without its great hymns and oratorios, the poetry of the Bible, the time - transcending liturgies of the sacraments, and the distinctive beauty of Christian houses of worship is hard to contemplate.
Apart from the church, we should not have kept the Bible or the great hymns or the great prayers or even the very notion of the gospel.
Luke, on the other hand, echoes language from the Hebrew Bible without treating it as fulfillment of prophecy, especially in the great hymns which he attributes to Mary (the «Magnificat») and Zechariah (the «Benedictus»).
As one of the great hymns by Charles Wesley puts it:
They always could sing the great hymns, affirm the great faiths, rejoice in the deep resources of the Christian soul.
Among the East Syrian writers, the most important writer is St. Ephrem, in the fourth century, who lived in Edessa for some time and was a great hymn writer.
There is one very significant straw in this particular wind, one probably unnoticed even by deeply orthodox clergy as they say their daily office: as this magazine pointed out in its last edition (p. 20), in the version of the breviary used in Australia, Ireland, England and Wales, verse 4 of Newman's great hymn «Firmly I Believe and Truly»,
This is celebrated in the great hymn to Osiris, engraved on a tombstone about 1550 BC.:
Unfortunately, we've tended to ignore the great hymns of the faith and failed to recognize their inherent value in our lives.
Yet he could also say in his great hymn of love written to these same Christians, «When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.»
Almost all great hymns contain solid Christian theology.
And yet we sing the great hymn in a tired, worn out, defeated voice:
Psalms and the great hymns of the Church have been replaced by «scripture choruses» sung to warmed - over pop tunes.
Indeed, it is central in the whole Bible.9 God was proclaimed as king of Israel in the great hymn about the crossing of the Red Sea (Ex.
The Baptists have some great hymns!
This is awesome I love how the current day artist are taking some of the great hymns and praise songs and re invigarating them with new style and making them truely wonderful again.
19:18) Much of the «P» document, as this work of the priestly writers is called, is from our standpoint quite uninspiring, with long genealogies as well as outmoded laws, but we must ever be grateful for its great hymn of creation with which the Bible opens.
This has not been said better than in George Matheson's great hymn,
The narrative arc of a great hymn can not be communicated when only a few lines of text can be accommodated on each of the 30 - some frames it takes to display the entire hymn.
In the great hymns and spirituals of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as in «There is a balm in Gilead / to make the wounded whole,» and «Swing low, sweet chariot, / comin» for to carry me home,» he finds «a directness and a fervor of utterance and humility which involves man's nobility and, to me, a spark of divinity.»
Robert Murray McCheyne must have also had this in mind when he wrote the great hymn, «When This Passing World Is Done,» in 1837: