Sentences with phrase «hymn writer»

Modern hymn writer Keith Getty explains why he wants to get families singing together again More

Hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty have performed for US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Second... More

Pastor Crouch has been called «the godfather of modern gospel music» and Billy Graham called him the «greatest hymn writer of his generation».

Fanny Crosby one of the most prolific hymn writers was blind, yet in my opinion she knew more about sight than many people.

A few years ago, I studied at a university in Jerusalem that had a cemetery on campus where a famous hymn writer was buried.

He points to the stark honesty of many hymn writers for why these songs resonate with a «generation (that) longs for authenticity.»

The 18th - century hymn writer and psalm versifier, James Maxwell, followed this belief, which he incorporated into his paraphrase of Psalm 150:

Hymn writers such as Janzen, Carl Daw, Sylvia Dunstan, Shirley Erena Murray, Thomas Troeger and Brian Wren express trinitarian praise in imaginative, varied and faithful ways.

As the fourth - century Latin hymn writer Prudentius (b. 348) put it:

Dr. Wren, a free - lance hymn writer and consultant on worship, justice and peace, lives in Oxford, England.

That strange land in which hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

In the hymn «The Farmer Takes a Sheaf of Grain,» contemporary Swedish hymn writer Ylva Eggehorn gets it right:

Last, but decidedly not least, the richly theological hymns of John's brother Charles, and the later compositions of Wesleyan hymn writer Fanny Crosby, continue to enrich the hymnals of churches far beyond the bounds of Methodism — from Presbyterians to Lutherans.

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.

It reminds me of the story of Susannah Wesley (mother of quite a number of children — 17 or 19 or something — two of whom became a famous preacher and a famous hymn writer).

Hymn writers Keith and Kristyn Getty have performed for US Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Second Lady Karen Pence.

As a hymn writer puts it,

We can certainly say, with the hymn writer, «Change and decay in all around I see,» but we know also with Gerard Manley Hopkins that «the world is charged with the grandeur of God.

This is what the hymn writer F. W. Faber meant in «There's a Wideness in God's Mercy,» when he said:

Hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as Peter Gomes has said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations long past.»

Society president David Miller, dean of Wittenberg University's school of music, offered a progress report: the 55 - year - old hymn society, with 2,000 members — including clergy, church musicians, poets and hymn writers — was reorganized last year, has recently taken a spurt of growth and seems to have potential for further growth (one place the society is recruiting is among the ranks of the American Guild of Organists» 24,000 members).

We are then candidates for what the hymn writer called the «wideness in God's mercy.»

The hymn writers meant no harm of course and I'd argue that no hymns should be thrown out.

The hymn writer gets it right when describing the love between Christ and the believer:

But there's a danger in making people too comfortable in their clothes on Sunday morning, says Constance M. Cherry, an international lecturer on worship and a hymn writer.

Limestone's Co-Pastor Carolyn Winfrey Gillette is a hymn writer with hymns in collections published by the Episcopal, United Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian Reformed, Community of Christ, United Church of Canada, and has been featured three times on national PBS - TV.