By Karen O’Connor I felt the aircraft wheels touch the runway and my heart thumped. My husband and I and our fellow travelers had landed in Manchester, England. It was September 18, 2013. The British American Hymn Sing Tour of England and Wales sponsored by Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center had begun. My eyes misted […]
By Jewell Johnson “The singing in this church is dull and lifeless,” a young English man complained after the worship service one Sunday morning. His father, a deacon, replied, “If you don’t like it, why not give us something better?” Isaac Watts went home and wrote a poem based on a Bible verse. The next […]
By Emily M. Akin “Why sing songs with words that are a hundred years old?” A friend asked this of me, making his case to dispose of traditional hymns in worship. My response? “Ignoring old hymns would be a tragedy for the church. Why deny the next generation these treasures passed down from their Christian […]
By Bryan K. Brigham Ephesians 5:19 and Colossians 3:16 challenge us to encourage each other with “psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.” Both exhortations were written from prison. Yet, rather than feeling sorry for himself, the apostle Paul used the opportunity to encourage others and to challenge us to do the same. In the […]
By Elizabeth Van Liere No matter if the skies are gray, my Tuesday mornings shine with special blessings. Six to eight elderly ladies and men wait for me. Oh, not me, exactly. They wait for the blessing of hymns, which I play on my CD player. They come down the hall of the nursing home […]
