I’ve had Give Me Jesus on the blog before, but not on Sunday Songs. (edit: maybe I was wrong) Sometime we’ll sing it on Sunday nights. The words, I think are sourced from an old african-american spiritual. Lots and lots of arrangements of this have been made and I’ve got half a dozen or more …
How Sweet And Awesome Is The Place seems to be the modern name for Isaac Watt’s hymn How Sweet And Aweful Is The Place. Apparently trying to explain aweful means the same thing as awesome is a lost cause. Which is true, I guess. This hymn fell out of usage in the twentieth century, probably …
CityAlight is the name under which St. Paul’s Castle Hill have released Yours Alone, a new album of songs for worship. There’s already a helpful review and introduction by Andrew Finden at A Borrowed Flame, so I won’t duplicate that, except to say that I agree. The songs are lyricically strong and musically engage a …
Last week I bought an ep of songs by Amanda Noël (Songbird At Midnight: The Legacy Of Fanny Crosby) which features this version of Crosby’s Rescue The Perishing. I’m enjoying the other tracks as well. The lyrics are embedded in this video or you can find them here.
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