Sentences with phrase «old hymn»
The phrase "old hymn" refers to a religious song that was written and sung a long time ago. Full definition
One of the tinies recently asked to listen to some quiet reinterpretations of old hymns after our bedtime prayers.
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The only thing Dean liked about Bob Jones was singing old hymns in morning chapel, like «Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow.»
In the case of Osun, in as much as we all agree that Nigeria's failure as a country did not start just yesterday, it may therefore amount to standing the truth on its head to assume that the only way out of this situation is by singing from the same, old hymn book of disappointment as if such is a sure ritual to accessing Bola Ige House!
I love old hymns, and the church I went to still sang them, and not the boring praise choruses that so many do now.
Some like old hymns and choruses, some like a yelling pastor, some like a calm, cool, collective pastor.
But I've fallen in love with it — just good old hymns done beautifully.
The organ plays old hymns.
She hummed old hymns with a fancy vibrato while tidying up her home, counted her blessings all day long, stocked her pantry early in the fall to provide for her family during the long cold winter, quilted by firelight, cherished her Bible which was well - worn and underlined, was nicknamed «Honeybelle» by her groom of 62 years.
Old hymns tell you why you should worship God.
Or the other end of the spectrum, mindless singing of 200 year old hymns.
In a small, steepled church, people sing a few old hymns backed by an organ, listen to a sermon, share in Communion and have bad coffee as they laugh and catch up in the church basement afterward.
This is why I prefer old hymns like «Crown Him with Many Crowns.»
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).
When I went to a Baptist church as a child, we sang 200 yr old hymns.
There's a beautiful old hymn whose words go like this: «My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus» blood and righteousness / on Christ the solid Rock, I stand / all other ground is sinking sand.»
Consider some of those «great old hymns» that our parents love and that we grew up on, «In the Garden» being the absolute nadir of them all.
The gargantuan self - playing organ composed of thirteen bus - sized inflated bags, played a 200 - foot - long scroll of dots and dashes encoding old hymns, pop classics, and improvisational tunes.
We believe that the most frequently submitted Mondegreen is still «Gladly, the cross-eyed bear» (known in the real world as that fine old hymn «Gladly The Cross I'd Bear»).
We sang lots of wonderful old hymns, an organist played a pipe organ, and the Pacific ocean was right out the windows on the left.
That's where I first heard that beloved old hymn that tells the Gospel so clearly.
We only sing old hymns.
I love that most of the score were variations of old hymns.
there are some good old hymns.
«I find that putting old hymns to new music allows us to connect with the hymns and yet still be relevant and authentic to our own culture,» he said.
And that something just happens to be 200 - year - old hymns.»
He seems, for the moment at least, to have forgotten that he is but a pilgrim, a «wayfaring stranger» (as the old hymn puts it).
There is an old hymn which talks about the «faith of our fathers» which is living still.
I have to wonder if any mortal ever was comfortable with the range of vocals required in the â $ œgood old Hymns.
«For me, gospel music and old hymns were always addressing the big questions — about God, redemption, sin and forgiveness,» he says.
There is even an old hymn that has been sung for over a century by the Church titled, «Only a Sinner!»
There's an old hymn that's almost childlike in its simplicity.
«We follow the ancient liturgy of the church (chanting the Kyrie, readings from scripture, chanting the Psalm, sermon, prayers of the people, Eucharist, benediction, etc.) We also sing the old hymns of the church.
A collection of singalong rock worship anthems, he wrote all the songs with the exception of the title track, which is a reworking of the old hymn.
She sings the old hymns.
Do you remember that old hymn?
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.»
Back in town at Perry's old church, a graying, neatly dressed crowd of several dozen gathered for services in a stately sanctuary, singing old hymns and reciting communal prayers from hard wooden pews.
What we do has to make sense for the people of God in Chicago or New York or Springfield or wherever we are, in the late 20th century, with the themes of Pentecost VI or Advent I or whatever the occasion is, with all the resources that are available to us within the confines of our capabilities: old hymns, new hymns, music from various periods and of various styles, old translations, new translations, the same and different ways of doing things, etc..
The old hymn «This world is not my home; I'm just a-passing through» reflects a sentiment still with us, and it is the source of considerable indifference in the church.
For me, I'm more inspired by the melody, so the old hymns move me in a way that contemporary music somehow can not.
While the old hymns are more theologically thorough than many of the modern worship songs, when my daughter sings «I love Daddy» in her room by herself, I feel more honored tan when she sings a thorough treatise, ya know?
Never could understand half of the lyrics in the old hymns written over 100 + years ago (after all what in the heck is, «Here I raise my Ebenezer.»
Nothing wrong with tradition and singing old hymns every once in awhile.
Even though many of the old hymns for this day refer to the saints of old who shone in glory, most of us prefer saints closer to home.
The older I get, the more I realize the truth in the words of an old hymn: «prone to wander, Lord I feel it.»
At first glance, the old hymn seems to have gotten the significance of the words dreadfully wrong.
Mihee's voice reminds me of line in the old hymn «Wade in the Water» that speaks to God's «troubling» the water.
From the older hymns it is clear that they were still an invading, conquering people, dependent upon military skill and power to make their way ever more deeply into India.