This tune is one of the best known of all Christian melodies and gets its name, “Old Hundredth”, from ... and Western affluence. The lyrics of this hymn were written by Charitie Lees Bancroft.

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 ...

"Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous! Praise befits the upright. Praise the Lord with the lyre, make melody to him with the harp of ten strings! Sing to him a new song, play skilfully on the strings, ...

The Akathist Hymn is a Service of the Orthodox Church that invites the faithful to rejoice in ... The joyful and hope-filled end of Holy Week is remembered in one of the gospel readings taken from the ...

Watts has been described as “the liberator of English hymnody” as his hymns moved people away from simply singing Old Testament psalms ... of hymnody known as “gospel” emerged.

Church sanctuaries still ring out with the two-hundred-year-old hymns of Watts ... In his introduction to The Oxford Book of Christian Verse, Donald Davie asks what sort of language is most ...

The new additions include songs familiar with other Christian ... The new hymns also include original Latter-day Saint hymns ...

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 ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel, or in its relationship to what we call Judaism. And these are concerns that belong to the time ...

What we can infer from the evidence of the Book of Acts and the third gospel is that the author was someone who was steeped in scripture, in the Septuagint, and who was aware of Hellenistic ...

He cancelled a scheduled performance, the Yesuvin Sangama Sangeetham (Fusion Music of Christ), a concert produced by popular Tamil Christian producer ... singing Christian hymns and for ...