Articles in the hymns Category

Oh let’s have a hymn then…
Posted in hymns on 12 May 2013

I am not sure what I think of this ‘hymn’; it doesn’t even appear in the Methodist hymn book, so it must be highly suspect (hmm; I forgot to take my irony pills again). It is more an …

Hymn
Posted in hymns on 28 April 2013

I sometimes think that the most profound prayer is ‘Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me a sinner.’ I know that everyone is made in the image of God (no Calvinist ‘total depravity’ here) but we do mess …

Palm Sunday
Posted in hymns on 24 March 2013

I really like this hymn; old though it is. I am only using the first 3 verses today. I love the poetry and the explicit statement of missionary intent: ‘Love to the loveless shown’.

We ain’t there yet. A couple …

Hymns
Posted in hymns on 17 March 2013

As I have posted a few times before, I struggle with hymns and songs. The number that I chose with ease is diminishing: non inclusive imagery in hymns that are new, hymns that are just twee, hymns that have too …

The path…
Posted in hymns, martyn joseph, prayer on 10 March 2013

‘There’s always maybe: when there is no answers, that’s what Faith becomes’, as Martyn Joseph once sang

We never realise how much everything is provisional the more funerals I conduct I realise just how much that is just about the …