Advent: Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty … Continue reading Advent: Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates

Advent: Hark The Glad Sound

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Hark! The Glad Sound. This is … Continue reading Advent: Hark The Glad Sound

Advent: Gabriel’s Message Does Away

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Gabriel’s Message Does Away: 1 Gabriel’s … Continue reading Advent: Gabriel’s Message Does Away

Advent: Hills of the North

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Hills of the North I think … Continue reading Advent: Hills of the North

Hymns: 2020 Memories

I began this series with my Hymns: 1980 Memories post, so this is the 40th in the series. As I age, my life seems to get duller, so you mightn’t want to bother reading this 😀. So, we get to 2020, the first year of the COVID pandemic. I remember hearing about this virus outbreak … Continue reading Hymns: 2020 Memories

Advent: Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling: … Continue reading Advent: Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling

Advent: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, while Christmas hymns celebrate fulfilment, joy, and Christ’s birth. Today’s hymn is Come Thou Long Expected Jesus: What … Continue reading Advent: Come Thou Long Expected Jesus

Advent: O Heavenly Word of God on High

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ve started with Advent. What’s the difference between Christmas hymns and Advent hymns? Advent hymns differ from Christmas hymns in their focus: Advent hymns emphasize waiting, longing, and preparation, … Continue reading Advent: O Heavenly Word of God on High

Advent: Creator of the Stars of Night

Because Christmas is coming, I’ve decided to take a break from my daily review of modern worship songs and focus on Christmas hymns for a month. I’ll start with Advent. In my Baptist/independent evangelical church scene, we’re not really into feasts and church calendars. But I like all Christian music. And I do enjoy listening … Continue reading Advent: Creator of the Stars of Night

Hymns: Lion and the Lamb

In this series, I explore some modern songs as an old guy – with one foot in the grave and one foot on a banana skin 😀. I remember David Pawson making that joke when I saw him at St. Marks, Kennington, London back in 1982. He was only 52 then. And I’m 10 years … Continue reading Hymns: Lion and the Lamb