Sentences with phrase «old hymns»

We love all those old hymns & don't get to sing them at our church: (We just have to get our fill on the radio these days!

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.

those old hymns would be a great idea although my mind is percolating with other options!

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.

The one with the old hymns are my favorite - you don't hear those much anymore!!

The only thing Dean liked about Bob Jones was singing old hymns in morning chapel, like «Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow.»

i, and i've met many more besides just myself, frankly loathe most of the stuff that passes for music in the churches i've experienced (which are broad)... i love some of the old hymns or some new ones with a bit of content, but frankly most is pretty poor... i recognise this is just my opinion, but there in lies the problem, like i said, music is divisive... only churched kids really get the singing thing and half of them aren't bothered.

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

I love old hymns, and the church I went to still sang them, and not the boring praise choruses that so many do now.

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.

Some like old hymns and choruses, some like a yelling pastor, some like a calm, cool, collective pastor.

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.

We only sing old hymns.

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.»

When I went to a Baptist church as a child, we sang 200 yr old hymns.

But I've fallen in love with it — just good old hymns done beautifully.

The organ plays old hymns.

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..

She sings the old hymns.

One of the tinies recently asked to listen to some quiet reinterpretations of old hymns after our bedtime prayers.

«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.

there are some good old hymns.

«For me, gospel music and old hymns were always addressing the big questions — about God, redemption, sin and forgiveness,» he says.

I have to wonder if any mortal ever was comfortable with the range of vocals required in the â $ œgood 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.

Or the other end of the spectrum, mindless singing of 200 year old hymns.

Old hymns tell you why you should worship God.

And that something just happens to be 200 - year - 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.

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.

We, as the old hymn goes, have» a foretaste of glory divine».

There's an old hymn that's almost childlike in its simplicity.

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.»

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).

Mihee's voice reminds me of line in the old hymn «Wade in the Water» that speaks to God's «troubling» the water.

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.»

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.

Asked to «count your many blessings, name them one by one» as the old hymn puts it, most people could find things to be thankful for — events, circumstances, persons — experiences that have yielded happiness.

Of these, Books II through VII contain the greater number of the oldest hymns and were the first to be brought together, possibly at the command of some famous chief.

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.

Congregations that had been left for dead by the experts seem to be defying their critics and proving the words of the old hymn: «New occasions teach new duties.»

We need to frequently remind ourselves and one another that the old hymn gets it right; «Tho the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.»

The non-Christian world can not be summed up in the words of the old hymn: «The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone.»

He remembered returning to his father's church as a young man, after having been exposed to the cantatas and passions of Bach, and seeing his mother and grandmother sing the old hymn «There were 90 and 9 that safely lay in the shelter of the fold.»

On the Sabbath the Hebrew people deliberately and self - consciously, in the words of the old hymn, «took time to be holy.»

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!

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»).

Even more importantly, counseling together can help you begin to build your marriage on what the old hymn calls «Christ the solid rock.»

(I know I'm stealing from an old hymn!!!).