Sentences with phrase «hymns on»

St. Ephrem, the great theologian and poet of the Syrian church in the fourth century, has a number of hymns on Jesus Christ as the true vine and us as branches.

God made all kinds of people, some stupid and some less so, some left - handed and some not, some attracted to red headed people and some not, some able to sing hymns on pitch and some not, etc..

If the ten winning «Hymns on Aging and the Later Years» are the best of the 1,200 texts submitted, one would not want to see the other 1,190.

It represents a lot of thought, writing and time... people hear the same passages of bible, sing the same hymns on many occasions, or use the same prayers....

143:10 Matthew 3:13 — 17 Luther's hymn on Baptism is a wonderful way to observe this festival and great even in our Lord's life: To Jordan Came our Lord the Christ To Jordan came our Lord the Christ, To do God's pleasure willing, And there was by Saint John baptized, All righteousness fulfilling; There did He consecrate a bath To wash away transgression, And quench the bitterness of death By His own blood and passion; He would a new life give us.

Liam Gallagher, the front man of award winning band Oasis, was the unlikely singer of a harvest hymn on Friday.

I don't necessarily mean how will they learn to read music (though this is surely a dying practice), but how will they come to know how a hymn on a printed page works?

This Hymn itself must be interpreted in the light of Upadhyaya's Hymn on the Trinity as Sacchidananda which was published earlier in 1898.

In November, Taiwan's indigenous Bunun people hold a huge millet festival — you can even see the traditional singing of the millet hymn on YouTube.

The eerie, humming sound of a hymn on the soundtrack [also heard by the man - apes around the earlier monolith] indicates their approach toward the magical object.

Not exact matches

Phil Harvey, Coldplay's artistic director, did tease last month that «special guests» will join the band, and the English rockers are well acquainted with Beyoncé: She joined the band on the party jam «Hymn for the Weekend,» off Coldplay's new record A Head Full of Dreams.

«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.»

Like the line from the hymn «Let There Be Peace on Earth» says: With God as «Our Father» WE (meaning all of us) are Family.

(PS — I hate football but would watch it to avoid sitting on a pew, listening to a sermon and singing hymns — yuck).

Or hymns like Hie To Kolob about the imaginary planet that God lives on?

It reminds me of the line on one of the hymns «those who reject this glad message will never such happiness know» How true!

His translation begins in a measure common to «When the Frost is on the Punkin» and «The Lobster Quadrille,» as well as to numerous psalms and hymns by Christopher Smart:

When her mother, the daughter and granddaughter of Methodist ministers, died on May 9, 1905, Jarvis in a series of recollections penned for friends and family remembered her mother especially for her evangelical piety and practice: her conversion at age 12; her lifelong work in a Methodist Sunday school in Grafton, West Virginia; her habits of secret prayer, her graces at table; and her abiding affection for her favorite hymns.

In his discussion of the eighth century, Lambert relies too heavily on the writings of the astonishing Bede, substantially excluding other figures who left significant paper trails of different kinds, such as St. Aldhelm, and causing him to downplay the continuing Irish influence on British Christian writing, including the shift to rhyme and accentual prosody in hymns.

Sears vapors on about the sameness of his search for love and potable water, and Cheever's own peroration reads almost like a transcendentalist hymn to the cosmos for «the great benefice of living here and renewing ourselves with love.»

(CNN)- If you don't have a college degree, you're less likely to be up early on Sunday morning, singing church hymns.

The point is that we need this hymn to restate and magnify our entire salvation history, to draw on Hannah's song in 1 Samuel, as well as on prophetic warnings about the day of the Lord as a time when all that we value will be called into question.

But first, on nights like this, the nights of lament, we're also singing along — nursery rhymes, hymns, anthems, whatever — with each other because it's a form of prayer.

For an exact understanding of the Hymn to Matter, therefore, we must place it at the end of the way of purgation and looking on and up to the mountain - top where the heavenly Jerusalem shines forth.

Occasionally I'm annoyed by a fly buzzing slowly past me (and I'm reminded of a line from a hymn my grandfather claimed to have sung: «There may be flies on you and me, but there ain't no flies on Jesus») Once in a while I feel twinges of boredom as the sermon wears on, or pangs of regret as my mind wanders back to the letters I meant to write the past week.

It feels very wrong to pick on the father of modern British worship music, and on the song that was named among the nation's favourite hymns by the BBC in 2005, despite having only been written in 1987.

The Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, which was originally compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan in 1604 — in the same year as work began on the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible — contains devotional hymns by Hindu and Muslim poets and saints as well as by the Gurus.

(«For They so loved the world,» «Surrender your life to Them,» etc.) And what if the words to your favorite hymn were changed on the overhead to read «to God be the glory great things She hath done!»

I reckon there are more than a handful here that sing the hymns of the risen Christ on Sunday morning and drink, or eat, or spend, or puke, or sex, or systematically theologize their way into the icy numb during the rest of the week.

On meeting Elizabeth, Mary praised God in a hymn known as the Magnificat.

Much like Townend's «How Deep the Father's Love for Us», which includes the line «The Father turns His face away», this hymn splits Christians on their view of the atonement.

His attempt to build a radical doctrine of Incarnation on the kenosis hymn in Phil.

Go read a few translations of the old Latin hymn «Dies irae» on - line.

If in such moments we would listen to the wind in the trees, the waves curling on the beach, feet crunching in sand, and the song of the mockingbird as the evening sun sets, we would surely hear creator God singing hymns over us, his creation.

Two years ago I wrote an article for The Christian Century on the language of hymns and the new biblical translations which I freely confess was more heat than light («Lord, Bless This Burning Pit Stop,» January 15, 1975, p. 36).

A few Anglican priests, such as his hymn - writing brother Charles, joined these Methodists, but the bulk of the preaching burden rested on John.

In the original of Isaac Watts» hymn, it was the «young Prince of Glory» who died on Calvary, forgoing most certainly opportunities of profound service to his fellows that might well have been his, had he avoided the issue of his supreme hour.

An international hymn sing - song on Sunday is raising awareness about parts of the world where there is... More

The entire hymn is written on the theme of confidence in and gratitude for the privilege of prayer --

What follows are some hot tips on writing for worship, from hymns to liturgies to sermons.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

The emphasis on his divinity, the Canadian scholar Larry Hurtado suggests, was brought about by praying and singing hymns to Jesus, by celebration of the Lord's Supper, by confession of faith in Jesus and prophetic pronouncements of the risen Christ5 Even so there seems to have been some hesitation to speak of Jesus simply as «God» and those verses which appear to do so in English versions of the New Testament may have been mistranslated.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

An international hymn sing - song on Sunday is raising awareness about parts of the world where there is little or no access to the gospel.

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.

On election day» a Sunday, of course» «from the monastery gates came streaming forth a magnificent procession of the cross, with priests bearing crosses and icons... in a long line, singing hymns and in full ceremonial dress towards the polling place.»

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

On the basis of current information from 25 institutions, it appears that a simple liturgical framework (hymn, prayer, lessons, responsively read psalm, anthem, sermon, hymn, benediction), using traditional materials adapted as needed to suit the participation of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, is the most prevalent form.

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.»

The lyrics in a popular Christian hymn from Malawi remind us that our neighbors are not only other people «black and white, rich and poor,» but also «animals and trees, mountains and grass, and all creatures on earth.