"Hymn texts that have appeared in most hymnals and are still in use today.” The category of “classical hymns” also includes songs such as “In Christ Alone,” at seven years old, one of the younger ...
Lift your voices to these rousing tunes. Here are some of the best hymns of all time... From ‘Amazing Grace’, first published in 1779, to ‘The Lord’s my Shepherd’, based on the 23rd psalm, hymns have ...
Randall Black has fond memories of growing up singing in a small church. He recalls the hymns offered up at Carbondale’s Grace United Methodist Church, and he remembers the way those songs were sung. ...
The hymn “Let the Lower Lights Be Burning,” written by Philip Paul Bliss in 1871, evocatively describes a group of despairing sailors trying to find their way through a perilous sea. “Brightly beams ...
Fanny Crosby was an American hymn writer, poet, and composer who became blind when she was just six weeks old. Despite her blindness, she wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs, including famous ...
M0NTEVALLO, Alabama -- A brass band in front of the First Baptist Church of Montevallo during the city's Art Walk two weeks ago blasted out a medley of classic Christian hymns played on trumpets, ...