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"Hallelujah" is used extensively in the Psalms and is a key feature of the "Hallel" psalms (Psalms 113-118), which were sung during Jewish festivals such as Passover. In the New Testament, "Hallelujah" appears in Revelation 19:1-6, where it is part of the heavenly worship celebrating ...
Nevertheless I always did welcome that last hymn,announced to be sung "with the Doxology,"usually in "long metre,"to the tune of "Old Hundred."There were certain mysterious preliminaries,--the rustling of singing-book leaves,the sliding of the short screen-curtains before the singers along by...
Fathers of the Church.—The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ: “For if you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, by ...
I don’t know what hooked my mom or aunt but the radical way I encountered God during worship kept me coming back. Both Baby and Scary church sung the old hymns with all the enthusiasm and joy of a funeral service. In contrast, Happy church had a praise band and they worshipped like...
“In Christ Alone” by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend. The Committee wanted to include this song because it is being sung in many churches, Presbyterian and otherwise, but they could not abide this line from the third stanza: “Till on that cross as Jesus died/the wrath of God was ...
Euthymius describes how candidates were required to undergo a long and rigorous period of ascetic training which culminated in a ceremony at which the Gospel book was placed on the candidate's head and a hymn was sung. He believed that this ceremony involved the washing off, or renunciation,...
doxology- a hymn or verse in Christian liturgy glorifying God choral,chorale- a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune canticle- a hymn derived from the Bible hymeneal- a wedding hymn pean,paean- (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke ...
These may be hymns that are rarely sung by the congregation or new and unusual settings of familiar hymns. The choir has traditionally sung "softly and tenderly," as one old member put it, and therefore chooses pieces suitable for low, dulcet tones. Songs of this sort include "Love Is ...
hymnists of the 18th cent. were IsaacWatts, CharlesWesley, and WilliamCowper, poets whose hymns are still sung in nearly all Protestant churches. In the 19th cent. there was a revived interest in plainsong that resulted in many translations of ancient Latin hymns, such as those by John ...