tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post7423231121825704739..comments2024-03-22T17:35:52.045-04:00Comments on Extra Thoughts: Bible Sunday--Hymns and collect of the weekLydia McGrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post-38581063619204485632009-09-17T10:22:24.737-04:002009-09-17T10:22:24.737-04:00I came to your page to read about Bible Sunday.
...I came to your page to read about Bible Sunday. <br /><br /><b>VII. Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing Him more than yourself or any other creature ...</b><br /><br />There is a exemplary recording of the hymn <i>And Can It Be?</i> on the disk <a href="http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/steeleye.span/records/singlustily.html" rel="nofollow">Sing lustily and with a good courage</a>. This disc includes <i>O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing</i>: When I played it to my aunt she remarked that she had not heard that hymn for many years - it was a favourite of her father's and<br />in those days before <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3666438/TV-dumbing-down---is-there-anything-good-on-TV.html" rel="nofollow">television</a>, the family would spend the evening singing Wesley's hymns around the piano.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post-19834633639094304362007-12-12T19:47:00.000-05:002007-12-12T19:47:00.000-05:00Thanks, Michael. Yes, it's a shame that some of co...Thanks, Michael. Yes, it's a shame that some of contemporary ilk would consider a hymn like that boring or too difficult or heavy, when in fact it applies doctrine directly and personally where it most counts.Lydia McGrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423567323116960820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20704380.post-90470386517984357082007-12-11T16:18:00.000-05:002007-12-11T16:18:00.000-05:00Wesley's hymn is indeed one of the richest and mos...Wesley's hymn is indeed one of the richest and most beautiful ever written. I still recall, quite vividly, how I wept in gratitude the first time I heard it, just a week or two after conversion. Few hymns, if any, have captured the mystery of redemption and of incarnation the way this one does.<BR/>Michael BaumanDr. Michael Baumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05013245754748702406noreply@blogger.com