Favorite hymns

[RedneckDyke]

What are y'all's favorite hymns? I have a lot.

--- Be Thou My Vision (Love the old Celtic tune)
--- I Know Whom I Have Believed ( A message of "I don't know why God does what God does and it's not my job to worry about it. I just know I'm OK". )
--- When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder ( I'll be there and won't some folks be surprised! :p
--- Spirit, Spirit of Gentleness ( Modern hymn with GREAT words)

And of Course Amazing Grace and a bunch of others.

[BrentRichards]

I also have many favorites, but what leaps to mind immediately are these two:

Be Still, My Soul (Finlandia), particularly this verse:

Be still, my soul: thy God doth undertake
To guide the future, as He has the past.
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake;
All now mysterious shall be bright at last.
Be still, my soul: the waves and winds still know
His voice Who ruled them while He dwelt below.



Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah (kind of the Welsh National Anthem of Hymns, and always Dad's favorite ... in my family, we usually call it by the Welsh tune name Cwm Rhondda [meaning Rhondda Valley, the place of the tune's origin])

Generally speaking, I love all Welsh hymn-tunes, both for their rich harmonies and their heritage significance!

[pnggrad79]

How Great Thou Art!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alisaeyes]

I think Amazing Grace,,is my favorites...with the new songs out I think . MercyMe's .I can only imagine and Homesick...

[keltic63]

What are y'all's favorite hymns? I have a lot.

--- Be Thou My Vision (Love the old Celtic tune)


There are other hymns? :confused::confused::confused:


Praise the Source of Faith and Learning by Thomas Troeger

in particular, I love this line:

May our learning curb the error
Which unthinking faith can breed
Lest we justify some terror
With an antiquated creed.

[sailaway58]

This is an interesting thread.
The Lords prayer as sung by my mother.
There is a balm in Gilead as sung by my wife
Victory in Jesus
Just as I am

[mjules]

Aaahh, "Be Thou My Vision" is my favorite, as well! There's yet to be a version of I've heard that I don't like.

I'm also very fond of "Come Thou Fount of Ev'ry Blessing". The tune is gorgeous, and the words break my heart.

"O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus" is very lovely. I learned how to play it on the piano once just because every time I hear it, that deep, minor key of the music (not to mention the theme of the words) always sounded the calm, dark waters near the bottom of a lake or ocean, like you could just close your eyes and get lost in it. (Oh, the deep, deep love of Jesus - vast, unmeasured, boundless, free, rolling as a mighty ocean in its fullness over me - underneath me, all around me is the current of thy love...)

When I was a kid, I used to love to warble "O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing" at the top of my lungs. I'm also a sucker for "Ode to Joy" from Beethoven's Ninth.

But probably my favorite? The song that sounds like home? "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring."

Though it's not actually a hymn, "Thigpen's Wedding" by Kemper Crabb is gorgeous, and in a hymnal style. Actually, anyone who likes Celtic music should check out his work. The Vigil is my favorite of his albums. In fact, I think everyone should know this song and should use it at their weddings. Don't we have one or two of those coming up soon? ;) I'll come sing it for you! Just pay my travel costs! :lol:

"Thigpen's Wedding" goes like this (from memory, so, eek!):

Here I turn my face unto you
Here I speak my heart's true vow
Here I choose to walk beside you
Loving only you, my heart speaks true,
Forever more from now

I will love you in the morning
And in the bright noonday
I will love you in the even'
Every day I live, my heart I'll give
I will love you from my grave

I have heard God in your laughter
I have seen Him on your face
And it's clear now what He's after
For He wrote your name on my heart in flame -
It's a wound I'll not erase

We will rise on wings of morning
We will fly before the wind
We will dwell within the mysteries
And the glories of Jehovah's love
A circle without end

We will pitch our tents toward Zion
In the shadow of His love
We will covenant between us
We will covenant with the earth below
And with heaven up above

We will covenant with the dust below
And the Spirit up above.

[BenL]

I don't want to hijack or derail this thread ... so keep on posting your favorite hymns.

When I started thinking of mine ... mostly old Anglican workhorses :lol: ... I realized that what really captivates me is the music. The words are mostly secondary, although I don't disregard them. For instance, heresy of heresy, I don't like Amazing Grace both because the tune is terrible (very subjective, I know) and I REFUSE to cast myself as a wretch. I had too many years of that, and it's actually spiritual self-abuse to keep on doing it.

Anyways, here are some of my favorite hymns by tune name and first verse:

St. Clement: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
Helmsley: Lo! He comes with clouds descending
Merton: Hark! A thrilling voice is sounding
Winchester New: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry
Schmücke dich: Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness
Leoni: The God of Abraham praise
Lauda anima: Praise, my soul, the King of heaven

OK, I have to stop. There are too many. In the spirit of full disclosure, the last three were sung at my wedding. The prelude was the Bach chorale prelude on Schmücke dich, followed by the Bach chorale tune sung a capella in German, followed by the Brahms prelude on the same tune (in a different key). The processional hym was Lauda anima, and the recessional was Leoni.