The preacher and choir director often collaborate to select hymns that reflect the Scripture and sermon: for example, “Faith is the Victory” for the theme of faith. Sometimes, though, they get it ...

(MENAFN- GetNews) At any given moment, somewhere in the world, a congregation is singing one of Charles Wesley's 6,500 hymns. From Hark! The Herald Angels Sing to Love Divine, All Loves Excelling, ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Hymnals in many churches went the way of VCRs and cassette tapes, in favor of big screens and downloading worship songs through licenses ...

It’s hard to find hymns that embody Scripture’s sharp critique of the rich. When Mary came to visit, Elizabeth's child leaped in her womb. Mary's spirit, too, jumped to a higher plane. In the inspired ...

The doctrine committee of the US bishops' conference (USCCB) earlier this year produced a guide to evaluating the lyrics of hymns on the basis of their doctrinal content, noting that Vatican II ...

I woke up one morning with a line from a hymn in my mind: “Keep us from our own undoing.” I looked it up in the Christian Science Hymnal. It’s from hymn 115 by John M. Neale (adapted from his original ...

Methodists who for decades have sung “Rise Up, O Men of God” and similar traditional hymns today might also find “Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth” or perhaps “Womb of Life” on the Sunday program.

Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, a fifty-four-year-old pastor from Wilmington, Delaware, is a prolific and celebrated composer of hymns. She’s written around two hundred and fifty of them, and they’ve been ...

“Good morning. Please open your Gather hymnal to number 611, ‘On Eagle’s Wings.’ Number six-one-one.” So many a Catholic Mass begins, prompting weary sighs from the traditionalists in the pews. In the ...

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