Hymn Lines

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10/25/2024

If you’re in downtown Waxahachie this weekend for the big Bob Phillips event, run into Southern Mercantile and get ahead on your Christmas shopping at my booth… 10% off!

10/23/2024

Need a closing hymn for your Advent/Christmas services? This is one of my most-requested texts. Hope you can use it. Permissions granted to print, project and stream.
(I have congregational parts if you need those at https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/Search.aspx?query=Go%20All%20Ye%20Faithful)

10/17/2024

Friends Who Plan Worship: For your upcoming HANGING OF THE GREEN service, consider using my "With Great Anticipation" written specifically for that occasion. It works in the church or in a civic organization.
This is FLAT-RATE PRICING which means you purchase one copy and make as many as you need for your situation.
I hope you'll give this a look and maybe use it this year... and make it part of your annual tradition.

Shop and Buy "With Great Anticipation" - A Hymn for Hanging of the Green" - Score Only sheet music. sheet music book by R. G. Huff: RG Huff at Sheet Music Plus. (A0.1524631).

09/21/2024

Consider using my CAROL LINES as your Advent Devotional book this year!
You'll have 7 readings for Thanksgiving week, 58 hymns and carols to choose from during Advent and Christmas, and a bonus of 9 for Epiphany!
Buy one for yourself. Buy several for the Hymn Lovers on your gift list!
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CAROL LINES - 75 Devotional Thoughts Based on Lines and Phrases from Great Hymns and Carols or Thanksgiving, Advent, Christmas & Epiphany (HYMN LINES)

09/19/2024

If you love my friend/mentor Pete Butler’s ADA tune “Redeemed”, you’ll love this! MY favorite gospel song. Enjoy. Worship.

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09/14/2024

In the Lectionary, this is the Day of the Holy Cross. I think this will “make your day”as you listen to this. What a legacy this group left for us!
(Most of my choirs have sung the SATB arrangement of this. You can sing along.)

Na primeira visita ao Brasil em 1977 o Centurymen deixou uma semente plantada em solo recifense, e em 1978 o recém formado no curso superior de música sacra,...

08/30/2024

The Wilshire Choir is singing Terre Johnson's setting of this hymn on Sunday. I thought I would share this page from my HYMN LINES Devotional Book. If you have a minute, give it a read... or a re-read!

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Hymn: “Come, Ye Disconsolate” – Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
Typical Tune: CONSOLATION

Hardly anyone sings this hymn anymore in worship. I suppose it is too much of a downer. It will not allow us to escape the depths to which it moves us – we who are beyond consoling. That’s too bad, because on my disconsolate days, this hymn-line is one to which I turn because it is as true as any scripture I might turn to.

The dictionary definition of sorrow is: a feeling of deep distress caused by loss, disappointment, or other misfortune suffered by oneself or others.

There are times when I experience this kind of sorrow. I won’t make a list here, but you probably just made a mental list of your own. You may have even been overwhelmed by some sorrow during the last few days… maybe even the past few minutes.

Interestingly, one of the synonyms for sorrow is regret. Hmmm. Now, isn’t that interesting. I think I’ve always tied this text to those earthly disappointments offered in that dictionary definition. But if I understand that there are no regrets – nothing from my past, however sinful it may have been or may seem to me – no regrets that heaven cannot heal. Oh, my! Isn’t that freeing?!

The other stanzas end with similar phrases: Earth has no sorrow that heav’n cannot cure, and Earth has no sorrow but heav’n can remove. This is powerful stuff we’re dealing with here, folks. If these phrases are true – and I believe they are – then we should have a better attitude about our life after having meditated on these hymn-lines!

If the great God of heaven can heal, cure and remove my sorrows – even my regrets – then should I not be ecstatic in my appreciation… in my thanksgiving.

Most of us have trouble accepting forgiveness – from other humans and/or from God himself. But let’s do a better job of being receptive of the healing, curing removal of our transgressional sorrows.

I hate it when I’m in the middle of something which is a crisis for me, and someone says, “Oh, just get over it.” It is an un-kind statement… and probably an un-Christ-like response. Instead of getting over it, perhaps we need to give it over – give it over to heaven and the One who sits upon the throne thereof!

RSVP: Regrets Only
RSVP: No Regrets