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Just curious

Postby grouchy » Thu Aug 09, 2018 7:39 am

What is your favorite hymn? Mine is How Great Thou Art.

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LibraryLady2
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Re: Just curious

Postby LibraryLady2 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:49 pm

I am a great fan of that one, but I also like This is My Father's World.
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Re: Just curious

Postby BigTex » Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:04 pm

God of Our Fathers Whose Almighty Hand

Unfortunately, the latest Presbyterian hymnal has made some of the hymns more politically correct, so now we sing God of the Nations . . .

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Re: Just curious

Postby LibraryLady2 » Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:52 pm

I like that one also, BT.

Our current minister is selecting the music. gah! gah! He picks obscure hymns that make a funeral dirge sound great. 90% of the time none of us know the songs, so there is little singing and just the music. One of our members called them cucumber and watermelon songs. I asked about that, and he said when we have a weird song like that--that he doesn't know, he does not bother with the words, he just sings "cucumber and watermelon" as the music is played. hahahah
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Re: Just curious

Postby Red Oak » Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:30 pm

Love lifted me.
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Re: Just curious

Postby ralph » Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:03 pm

'Onward Christian Soldiers' !!

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Re: Just curious

Postby crocmommy » Fri Aug 10, 2018 9:50 am

I love hymns as opposed to the Praise and Worship music that sings the same words over and over again. And I like the sense of tradition that these hymns have been sung for generations. But the younger generations seem to be ditching them. There are too many to mention but a few I like are:

Oh for a thousand tongues to sing
It is well with my Soul
Up from the Grave he Arose
A Mighty Fortress is our God
How Great thou Art
Doxology

I'm sure there are many more

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Re: Just curious

Postby tx3653 » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:26 am

Spirit Song, Written by John Wimber. My favorite all time song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWEDBaFy0SI

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Re: Just curious

Postby bodine » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:50 am

"Beautiful Savior"

There was a time when I sang (with a small choral group) at just about all the funerals at our church. My favorite was "Now the Day is Over."

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Re: Just curious

Postby LibraryLady2 » Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:50 am

Do you know "In the bulb there is a flower?"
It is now my fsvorite funeral song. It is sometimes titled "Hymn of Promise"
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Re: Just curious

Postby LibraryLady2 » Fri Aug 10, 2018 11:51 am

Crocmommy-
I like all those you mentioned.

I have liked all the ones mentioned.
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Re: Just curious

Postby jellowrestling » Fri Aug 10, 2018 2:56 pm

The Edwin Hawkins arrangement of "Oh, Happy Day".


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