The good news is that you do not need to be a great poet to write a hymn—first, because your hymn does not need to be “great,” and second, because many of the sweetest hymns are the simplest.

There's a line in the song that says, "We'd all be speaking German or living under the flag of Japan / If it wasn't for the good Lord and the man." I don't think you can find an American who ...

He may not have a quick answer, but he knows a good hymn when he hears one -- or, when he writes one. Getty co-wrote "In Christ Alone" in 2001, and as church songs go, it's become something of a hit.

Nine years later, Rous published a hymn arrangement of ‘The Lord is My Shepherd’ with significant changes to the text. These lyrics are the closest to the setting we have now. It was in Rous’s 1950 ...

The hymn ‘The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended’ was written in 1870 by the hymnodist John Ellerton, and is most often sung to a tune known as St. Clement, after its composer Reverend Clement Cotteril ...

Opinion: Modern classic hymn ‘Mansions of the Lord’ perfect for Memorial Day reflection. Michael Lapolla May 25, 2023 May 25, 2023 Updated Jul 1, 2024; 0; 1 of 2 ...

A 1974 Hymn Called ‘Sing Hallelujah to the Lord’ Has Become the Anthem of the Hong Kong Protests. 3 minute read. ... [The song is] a very good way to express not just an emotion, ...

Mission Praise--which has sold more than 2 million copies as one of most popular hymn books in Britain and around the world--is now available online.

Unlike my wife, Julie, though, who is a classically trained oboist, my musical tastes are best expressed in hymns – and I love no hymn more than the popular Easter anthem, “Christ the Lord is ...

Yet the real appeal of The Good Lord Bird as a series is it doesn’t appear interested in evaluating these characters from a strictly modern gaze, or only wishing to dip its toe in the shallow ...

What makes this hymn so special is that it is based on Scripture from the Gospel of John, Chapter 14.” My favorite version of the “Mansions of the Lord” is played by the West Point Band and ...