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Category Archives: Hymns
Hymn of the week: Father of everlasting grace
This Thursday is Wesley Day and Sunday is Pentecost, so what more appropriate choice can there be as Hymn of the Week than one of Charles Wesley’s Pentecost hymns? Today also happens to be the anniversary of Charles’ conversion experience, … Continue reading
Ascension Day Hymn
Happy Ascension Day! Not widely observed in the Methodist Church, perhaps, but we have a lunchtime communion service at Archway (12.30pm, all welcome). As it’s just a short service we won’t be singing hymns, but if we did we would … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: One there is above all others
My choice of the hymn of the week was inspired by the Gospel for the 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B: No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: Low in the grave he lay
I really enjoyed leading worship at Archway this morning. Eight young people confirmed during the service, a full church and a real sense of celebration. When it comes to choosing Easter hymns I tend to stick to traditional favourites. I … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: All glory, laud and honour
One of the books I am reading at the moment is Hywel William’s Emperor of the West: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Empire. I enjoy reading history and found this second hand on the shelf of our church charity shop Second … Continue reading
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Hymn of the week: O for a heart to praise my God
Today’s hymn of the week is one of Charles Wesley’s earlier hymns, published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742). Its inspiration is Psalm 51:10: Make me a clean heart, O God: and renew a right spirit within me. In most … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: Father of Jesus Christ – my Lord
One of Charles Wesley’s early hymns, ‘Father of Jesus Christ’ was originally published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742) with twenty verses. This was reduced to eleven verses in the 1780 Collection; modern hymnals have reduced it further to five … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: Freedom is coming
In 1986 the Iona Community published a collection of fifteen songs from South Africa entitled Freedom is Coming. These were collected by a Swedish musician called Anders Nyberg. Nyberg had travelled to South Africa while singing with a vocal ensemble … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: Fight the good fight
For all-age worship on Sunday I decided to skip the Gospel story of the healing of the leper and the linked Old testament story of Naaman and go with the epistle instead: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. The theme of the service … Continue reading
Hymn of the week: Earth, rejoice, our Lord is King
If it gets much later the hymn of the week will be the hymn of last week. On Sunday I chose this as the hymn after the sermon, thinking particularly of the Gospel text’s (Mark 1:21-28) description of Jesus as … Continue reading
