«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.
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.»
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!
The only thing Dean liked about Bob Jones was
singing old hymns in morning chapel, like «Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow.»
Not exact matches
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.
I grew up
singing songs from an over-head projector in
old gyms and community centres with terrible acoustics rather than from a
hymn book in a chapel.
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.»
Recently, at the end of the show, Keillor did a tribute to all the new 40 - year -
olds, those people born in March 1942,
sung to a rewritten Gettysburg Address with the tune of «The Battle
Hymn of the Republic» in the background.
When I went to a Baptist church as a child, we
sang 200 yr
old hymns.
As they
sang blessed
hymns to the Lord, Satan was up to his
old tricks.
I love
old hymns, and the church I went to still
sang them, and not the boring praise choruses that so many do now.
«Glory for me», the
old gospel -
hymn is supposed to have
sung — but the very words show that the
hymn is not about the gospel, for the gospel speaks of «Glory to God», in whose «glory» all good is contained.
Hymns and canticles of more recent composition, but also the
old ones that have come down to us from our Christian past, enable us to
sing the praises of God along with those who have gone before us, while they unite us with others present at worship in a common act of adoration or petition or confession.
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 believe it is one of the primary functions of meeting together — as seen in
Old Testament worship as well as implied in Paul's admonition: «Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you
sing psalms,
hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.»
Johnson himself bemoaned the fact that he had to devote «this rare and sacred column space» to the issue, highlighting a range of issues he would have rather put thought to, including «
singing a
hymn of praise for my
old chum Gove» over the education secretary's plans to scrap GCSE exams in England in favour of a traditional model styled on the
old O - level.
a quaint wedding chapel for couples to say «I do» and to hold
old - timey
Hymn sing - alongs!
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.
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!
I loved the
old hymn book: I have to go to Easter sunrise service and church @ 11 so I get to
sing ALL of my
old favorites.