Sentences with phrase «hymns such»

They sang hymns such as «Victory is Mine» and songs like «God Bless America» and «This Little Light of Mine.»

Groups led by clergy opposed to same - sex marriage sang hymns such as «Victory is Mine» and prayed in small circles while pro-same-sex marriage advocates countered with «God Bless America» and lined the halls and parlor outside the Senate chamber.

I personally like the old hymns such as Amazing Grace... who saved wretch like me.

Military metaphors, enshrined in hymns such as «Onward, Christian Soldiers,» imply that the nations are to be subdued, conquered, defeated.

We learn of God's love and mercy in hymns such as «Amazing Love» and «Amazing Grace.»

Although not articulated in technical terms, the Calvinist doctrine of divine providence is at the heart of numerous spirituals and gospel hymns such as «His Eye is on the Sparrow» and «Precious Lord, Take My Hand, Lead Me On, Let Me Stand.»

Jeff Barnhart, one of the musicians who performed in the service at Spring Glen, described the basic shape of a jazz funeral as follows: «They (the performers) would play an old hymn such as «Just a Closer Walk with Thee» in the procession to the graveside.

This can be a simple, «Lord, here am I; fill me with thy Spirit,» or Samuel's «Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth,» or the words of a familiar hymn such, as

Partly a reaction against the gestural excesses of Abstract Expressionism, the new movement hymned such banal American subjects as diners, house trailers, shops, and chrome - laden automobiles.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Such a vision inspired Teilhard de Chardin to write his Hymn of the Universe which begins as a meditation of Mon Universe in a desert in Asia (Teilhard de Chardin 1965).

Out of this new dimension in Israel's experience came such hymns of the post-Exilic temple as the 139th Psalm:

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.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Or one may wish to repeat a line or two from a familiar hymn, such as

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

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....

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.

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.

It remains for new poet - songsters, new hymn - writers, or perhaps even for Bono or Dylan themselves, to provide the music for such a quest.

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.

Rather than omit such expression, one may well draw upon his memory of passages in the Bible, or repeat the words of a familiar hymn.

Why is it that all such religions have to threaten those who don't believe... Because, religion is a delusion, prayers, rolling beads around, hymn singing, bible / koran reading do not work... so the only thing that religions have left is to use punishment, blackmail, extortion, and threats against those who refuse to buy into such religious delusions.

He also suggests repeating a phrase such as this one from a hymn of the Greek Mysteries: «Be silent, 0 strings, that a new melody may flow in me.»

Televangelists such as Oral Roberts demonstrated that they could clean up nicely for the folks out in TV - land, shifting their musical presentation away from gospel quartet and hymns and toward well - coiffed crooners and troupes of well - scrubbed young people whose musical presentation was one part Up with People, one part Hollywood Palace and one part Peter, Paul and Mary.

The depth and coherence of such divine love revealed to us through the Cross is perhaps most beautifully captured by that ancient hymn the Letter to the Philippians:

This may well be the case; however, one then should consider why, if that is what they meant, the translators did not use the word song, or some other form of words showing that a song was permissible, such as chant or song, chant and / or hymn or perhaps liturgical song.

Except among small groups such as the Quakers and Shakers, the role of women in shaping Christian worship was negligible until the 19th century, when hymns written by women began to be used in church services.

An enormous number of hymns continue to be written and some recent hymns have focused on Christian social responsibility, such as «When I needed a neighbor» by Sydney Carter (b. 1915).

This is no slight problem in view of the fact that there is bad theology in many of the hymns, and the Apostle's Creed, along with great eternally true affirmations, declares belief in such matters as the resurrection of the body, which few people who say it now accept.

A century earlier John Wesley and his brother Charles had written hundreds of hymns which stirred working class people in England, and this tradition continued in America through such writers as Timothy Dwight, Samuel Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and more recently Henry Sloane Coffin and Harry Emerson Fosdick.

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.»

Such American hymn writers and translators as Jaroslav J. Vajda, Thomas Troeger, Gracia Grindal, Martin Franzmann, Herbert Brokering, F. Samuel Janzow and such British writers as F. Pratt Green, Timothy Dudley Smith and Brian Wren are rapidly becoming household naSuch American hymn writers and translators as Jaroslav J. Vajda, Thomas Troeger, Gracia Grindal, Martin Franzmann, Herbert Brokering, F. Samuel Janzow and such British writers as F. Pratt Green, Timothy Dudley Smith and Brian Wren are rapidly becoming household nasuch British writers as F. Pratt Green, Timothy Dudley Smith and Brian Wren are rapidly becoming household names.

Such «slave hymns» were popular among Pulayas from 1857 onwards, and were sung with fervour during the baptism ceremony.33

Perhaps this is one reason why there is so often an air of unreality about our worship, when such liturgical forms and such hymns are used, as they must be.

One of my favorite hymns was written by a man who was living through one such horrific «what if.»

Nor is there any dialogue between God the Father and the pre-existent Son about the work of redemption such as we find in the hymns of Luther and Paul Gerhardt.

My favorite lines in Christian hymns are the ones such as «come, desire of nations, come».

The material of worship, such as hymns, creeds, benedictions, baptism, Lord's Supper, and catechetical material, became part of the Scripture.

Further books contain liturgical materials such as a hymn of initiants found at the end of a copy of the Manual and the hymns or psalms (hodayoth) of thanksgiving for redemption.

The buildings played their part in enhancing grand occasions such as the visit in October 1502 of the papal legate, the Cardinal Archbishop of Lurk, when there were great processions, with banners and litanies and hymns throughout the town.

Folk hymns are not great poetry and they are not intended as such by their authors.

Claude, a young adult from an ultraconservative Protestant group, reports that the theme song of his early religious life might have been the hymn line, «For such a worm as I.» As a result of obtaining psychotherapy in his early twenties, he gradually achieved a sense of his worth as a person.

Examples are also to be found in the hymns of heavenly worship set forth in the book of Revelation (4:8, 11, etc.), as well as in such fragments as these:

Introducing spiritual practices to your child when she's young — such as lighting candles or singing hymns together — lets your child view them as a natural part of life, and allows you to have a spiritual influence on her before other people do.

We sang this old hymn this morning at church — it's such a blessing to sing old hymns of the faith mixed in with more contemporary songs of praise!

Wright has been acting since 2011 on UK shows like «Top Boy,» «Doctor Who» and «Humans» and in films such as «The Commuter» and «Urban Hymn,» which led to a BAFTA nomination in the most promising newcomer category.

Supported by a Craig Armstrong score that, perhaps intentionally, references the nationalist hymn Jerusalem, sequences such as Snowden smuggling information out of the NSA base where he works become genuinely tense.

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