I grew up in a church that sang hymns. They had an organ on the right and a piano on the left and a guy swinging his arms in the middle. We had no praise band, no drums, no guitar, just a choir with the ugly robes. At some point I felt God leading me to leave and go to another church. (I left for other reasons not the music. You can read about it in another post on this site.) At this church they had a good well balanced mix of Praise and Worship songs as well as a mixture of Hymns. I do like this style of worship much better but I have to admit, after a while I did miss the old hymns. I miss the piano and organ music. A lot of rich deep doctrine is written in these Hymns. You have to read them to really appreciate them. I often wonder what scriptures were the authors meditating on when they wrote these hymns.
Here is a list of some of the hymns that are my favorites.
1. How Great thou Art
2. I Will Sing the Wondrous Story
3. I Stand Amazed in the Presence
4. There is a Name I Love to Hear
5. At the Cross
6. Nothing but the Blood
7.There is Power in the Blood
8. Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
9. Amazing Grace
10 Just as I Am
11. Jesus is Tenderly Calling
12. Softly and Tenderly
13. I have Decided to Follow Jesus
14. Without Him
15.Great is thy Faithfulness
16. Surly Goodness and Mercy
17. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
18. Sweet, Sweet, Spirit
19. There Shall be Showers
20. Footsteps of Jesus
21. Standing on the Promises
22. It is well with my Soul
23. What A Friend We Have In Jesus
24. In the Garden
25. The Old Rugged Cross.
I can close my eyes and still hear these hymns being sung in that little church I grew up in. Grab a Hymnal and dive in and fall in love with the hymns.
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