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Now the Laborer's Task is O'er
Christian poets have never been cowed by the prospect of death. Here we weep, but not there, where every tear shall be wiped away.
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Jesus Shall Reign
Our Hymn of the Week isn’t a prayer. It’s a declaration of fact, now and in the time to come.
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It Fell Upon a Summer Day
Of all the sweet moments in the life of Jesus, the sweetest for me is when the mothers bring their children to him, that he might bless them.
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"At the Name of Jesus"
“At the name of Jesus,” says Paul, “every knee shall bow,” in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.  A stunning thing to say!
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"Crown Him With Many Crowns"
Our hymn is one of the best-loved across the Christian churches. And yet I doubt that more than a few of us have ever seen, much less sung all twelve of…
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April 2023
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
John of Damascus (8th century) said that the whole world was an icon of God: we can learn something of the invisible things of God through the visible…
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There Is a Green Hill Far Away
The wife of an Anglican bishop, Mrs. Alexander wrote this week's hymn for children to sing, as was the case with most of the four hundred hymns she…
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Up from the Grave He Arose!
“I have no method,” said the Reverend Robert Lowry with a shy smile. He seems not to have regarded himself as a great artist, though he gave all his…
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Ah, Holy Jesus
Pastor Johann Heermann lost his first wife to the plague when they were young; now he and his second wife and their children are without a home and…
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March 2023
"The King of Love My Shepherd Is"
When Henry Baker calls the Lord "the King of love" he’s not just indulging his feelings. He knows that the Latin version of the psalm reads, “The Lord…
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"Rise, Crowned with Light"
Alexander Pope, 1712 | When Jesus approached the blind beggar in Jerusalem who was begging for alms, he asked him what he wanted from him, and the…
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"As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams"
Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady, 1696 | Our Hymn of the Week is one of the most moving of all the psalms, the forty-second, “As the hart panteth after the…
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