Favourite Hymn Thread

It's been very quiet in the spirit thread,,, wake up wake up and sing your favourite hymn!!!

Onward Christian Soldiers.. 😉

whats yours?

Among the most admirable people in the church I grew up in was a middle-aged couple who got up in front of the congregation about once a year to sing a duet. As I recall, they always chose a song about how 'He could have called ten thousand angels to come and set Him free...'

While I no longer buy into the intent of the lyric, I still remember them and their song with fondness. They wound up moving away to Alaska, of all places.

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
whats yours?

http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook2.html

What else is there to say?

Originally posted by David C
http://www.whiteboydj.com/babygotbook2.html

What else is there to say?

This is your modern hymn

“Baby Got Book”
Lyrics by Dan Smith (copywritten)

I like em leather bound
it's 50lbs
I just can't understand
how it is some weanie
wants the bible on CD
She wants to get you saved
amen double up amen!

Big Bible turn you on???


gulp.....

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
It's been very quiet in the spirit thread,,, wake up wake up and sing your favourite hymn!!!

Onward Christian Soldiers.. 😉

whats yours?

Well I don't know if you'd call it a hymn, but I used to really enjoy Jars of Clay's "Love Song for a Savior." Now the strange multipersonality, slave/master/lover thing really creeps me out.

"In open fields of wild flowers,
she breathes the air and flies away
She thanks her Jesus for the daises and the roses
in no simple language
Someday she'll understand the meaning of it all
He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close as a heartbeat or a song on her lips
Someday she'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call her and she will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and she'll pray,

"I want to fall in love with You" x4

Sitting silent wearing Sunday best
The sermon echoes through the walls
A great salvation through it calls to the people
who stare into nowhere, and can't feel the chains on their souls

He's more than the laughter or the stars in the heavens
As close a heartbeat or a song on our lips
Someday we'll trust Him and learn how to see Him
Someday He'll call us and we will come running
and fall in His arms and the tears will fall down and we'll pray,

"I want to fall in love with You" x4

It seems too easy to call you "Savior",
Not close enough to call you "God"
So as I sit and think of words I can mention
to show my devotion

"I want to fall in love with You" until it fades out"

Thank you to this site:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Love-Song-For-A-Savior-lyrics-Jars-Of-Clay/A0F40960B684AD164825695900178FE8

Allow me to plug Johnny Cash's My Mother's Hymn Book. (He said it was his favourite out of all his recordings. )

Then, there's that great spiritual O Death:

Artist: Ralph Stanley Lyrics
Song: O Death Lyrics

O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold of me
Well I am death, none can excel
I'll open the door to heaven or hell
Whoa, death someone would pray
Could you wait to call me another day
The children prayed, the preacher preached
Time and mercy is out of your reach
I'll fix your feet til you cant walk
I'll lock your jaw til you cant talk
I'll close your eyes so you can't see
This very air, come and go with me
I'm death I come to take the soul
Leave the body and leave it cold
To draw up the flesh off of the frame
Dirt and worm both have a claim
O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
My mother came to my bed
Placed a cold towel upon my head
My head is warm my feet are cold
Death is a-movin upon my soul
Oh, death how you're treatin' me
You've close my eyes so I can't see
Well you're hurtin' my body
You make me cold
You run my life right outta my soul
Oh death please consider my age
Please don't take me at this stage
My wealth is all at your command
If you will move your icy hand
Oh the young, the rich or poor
Hunger like me you know
No wealth, no ruin, no silver no gold
Nothing satisfies me but your soul
O, death
O, death
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year
Wont you spare me over til another year


There's a treasure trove of public domain songs, mainly old bluegrass and blues numbers, at www.archive.org

Wonderful Grace of Jesus.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Allow me to plug Johnny Cash's My Mother's Hymn Book. (He said it was his favourite out of all his recordings. )

Then, there's that great spiritual O Death:

Artist: Ralph Stanley Lyrics
Song: O Death Lyrics

O, Death
O, Death
Won't you spare me over til another year
Well what is this that I can't see
With ice cold hands takin' hold ...[text shortened]... ure trove of public domain songs, mainly old bluegrass and blues numbers, at www.archive.org

Yes, this "hymn" was immortalized in the movie "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou."

The Amen Song!

Originally posted by Aynat
The Amen Song!

Great Lyrics..

Aaaaaaamen, aaaaaaaaaamen, aaaaaaaaaamen
aaaamen, aaaamen.

I can hear the choir singing in rounds......

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
Great Lyrics..

Aaaaaaamen, aaaaaaaaaamen, aaaaaaaaaamen
aaaamen, aaaamen.

I can hear the choir singing in rounds......

I have always been partial to Marilyn Manson...Melodic and thoughtful music of the spirit world.....

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
It's been very quiet in the spirit thread,,, wake up wake up and sing your favourite hymn!!!

Onward Christian Soldiers.. 😉

whats yours?

My favourite hymns are the ones I sing my children to sleep with,

Jesus loves me

Jesus loves the little children

Amazing grace (best of the best)

How great thou art

He walks with me

Wow, I've started and I can't seem to stop!

Swing low sweet chariot

This little light of mine

I think I could go on for for awhile, it would be a long list and there all my favourites.

Originally posted by kirksey957
Yes, this "hymn" was immortalized in the movie "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou."

I love that movie.. esp at the river

Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss singing Down to the River to Pray.

Does anyone like "The Baptism" by Kenny Chesney & Randy Travis?

I can recall more than a few times, I've been encouraged while
singing along with this song.
Kelly


Praise The Lord
=============

When you're up against a struggle
That shatters all your dreams
And your hope has been cruelly crushed
By Satan's manifesting scheme
And you feel the urge within you
To submit to earthly fears
Don't let the faith you're standing in, seem to disappear

(Chorus)

Praise the Lord
He can work with those who praise Him ,
Praise the Lord
For our God inhabits praise,
Praise the Lord
For the chains that seem to bind you
Serve only to remind you that they drop powerless behind you
When you praise him

Now satan is a liar
And he wants to make us think
That we are paupers
When he knows himself
We're children of the King
So lift up the might shield of faith
For the battle has been won
We know that Jesus Christ has risen
So the work's already done

(Repeat Chorus)
©Imperials' album HEED THE CALL released on Dayspring (Word) 1979
Words and Music by Brown Bannister and Mike Hudson

Who could forget this song here below.

ARTIST: Norman Greenbaum
TITLE: Spirit in the Sky
Lyrics and Chords


When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that's best
When they lay me down to die
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky

/ A - / - D / - A / E A /

Goin' up to the spirit in the sky - spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die - when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best

Prepare yourself, you know it a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He's gonna recommend you to the spirit in the sky - spirit in the sky

Oh, recommend you to the spirit in the sky
That's where you're gonna go when you die - when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You're gonna go to the place that's the best

Never been a sinner, I've never sinned
I've got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He's gonna set me up with the spirit in the sky

Oh, set me up with the spirit in the sky - spirit in the sky
That's where I'm gonna go when I die - when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best
Go to the place that's the best