Yet even at their annual worship conference, there’s room for multiple styles of music to declare the stories of the Bible.

But we have seen a whole congregation in tears as they sang that fine old hymn, "Taking the parting hand." Who ever saw a tear start at the bidding of a choir? It was not the pathos of the poetry ...

As Paul wrote to the Philippians (and by extension, to us), “Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may ...

Church sanctuaries still ring out with the two-hundred-year-old hymns of Watts, Wesley, Newton, and Cowper. But is lasting popularity alone an indicator of true literary quality? Literary historian W.

You're probably familiar with classic hymns like “Silent Night” and “The First Noel,” but you may not know the history behind some of these centuries-old songs. For instance, the popular ...

Watts has been described as “the liberator of English hymnody” as his hymns moved people away from simply singing Old Testament psalms, inspiring people to sing from the heart, with great ...

Garcia Glen White became the fifth man to be executed in Texas this year after he was put to death on 1 October for murdering ...

This tune is one of the best known of all Christian melodies and gets its name, “Old Hundredth”, from its association with Kethe’s translation. A popular hymn for children and well-known by ...

They sing old hymns. Reverend Ramsey heard about them, and got into some correspondence with them. There’s seven of them, and they’re coming up on the bus today, and they’ll spend the night ...

This was a very old hymn. Paul quotes this hymn when he writes Philippians, that is, in the early 50s of the first century. He quotes this as a hymn that probably was sung in the Christian ...

After dinner we repaired to our drawing-room car, and, as it was Sabbath eve, intoned some of the grand old hymns -- "Praise God from whom," etc.; "Shining Shore," "Coronation," etc.

Those songs may draw on familiar themes. He pointed to the song “Lord, I Need You,” which Maher said was inspired by an old ...