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"The
Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" 300pg
Course - Learn the secrets to playing literally any song on the
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Thousands of musicians have already taken advantage of this excellent
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Newly release DVD lessons by Samuel Tolbert
Sam's 3
in one DVD Lesson - " I need thee every
hour", " I'm Looking for a Miracle" and " Thank
You Lord" contemporary version on One DVD. These lessons created
for advanced musicians who desire to raise the level of their playing
of these songs. Not recommended for beginner musicians must
have knowledge of key F and Ab. 
special
pricing 18.00 for all three lessons.
" Jesus is All the World to Me " - in Ab Learn the scales, melody, chords, bass w/chords fill in and runs used in this popular song. Click on the link for a demo clip, Our price 15.00
'COGIC Shout in C, Db, G and Ab
COGIC Theme in Ab 1 hr DVD lesson covering melody, chords, bass runs and gospel bounce style.
" I Won't Complain" in Ab. with follow on lyric/chord lesson
" When I See Jesus Amen" in Db
" Can't Nobody Do Me like Jesus " and " Victory is Mine " two lessons on one DVD for beginner musicians.
Learn the scales, melody, chords, bass w/chords fill in and runs used in these popular songs.
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Morning Hymn suggestion 09/12/2004
Blessed Assurance key of D major - pg 508 AAHH tempo 80
Not much is known of the background of this Fanny Crosby hymn, "Blessed Assurance, Jesus is Mine." Fanny tells this one story about the hymn. Mrs. Joseph Fairchild Knapp, wife of the organizer of the Metropolitan Life Insurance company, went to visit her and get an opinion of a tune Mrs. Knapp had written. "What does it say to you, Fanny?" she asked. Fanny's answer was "Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine." And then a few minutes later she handed to Mrs. Knapp the completed lyrics of the hymn. The tune and the lyrics were put together and are still sung today.
Fanny Crosby wrote over 8000 hymns. She said about her blindness, "The first face ever to gladden my sight will be when I get to heaven and behold the face of the One who died for me. . . . I verily believe that God intended that I should live my days in physical darkness so that I might be better prepared to sing His praise and lead others from spiritual darkness into eternal light. With sight I would have been too distracted to have written thousands of hymns."
Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God.
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.
refrain:
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long.
Perfect submission, perfect delight,
Visions of rapture now burst on my sight;
Angels descending, bring from above
Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.
Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms key of Ab - pg 371 AAHH tempo 90
"The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the
everlasting arms."
(Deut. 33:27) Anthony J. Showalter had received some sad news from friends
and in his reply letter he included the verse, Deut 33: 27. But
after
thinking on the verse even more he thought that those words would be a
great
theme for a hymn. He immediately wrote the words for the refrain and
music
for the hymn. But he needed help for with the stanzas so he went to
see
Elisha Hoffman author of over 2000 gospel hymns. Hoffman provided
the
stanzas and Showalter the refrain and music to the new hymn, in 1887,
"Leaning on the Everlasting Arms."
What a fellowship, what a joy divine, leaning on the everlasting arms;
What a blessedness, what a peace is mine, leaning on the everlasting arms.
refrain:
Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms;
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.
Oh, how sweet to walk in this pilgrim way, leaning on the everlasting
arms;
Oh, how bright the path grows from day to day, leaning on the everlasting
arms.
What have I to dread, what have I to fear, leaning on the everlasting
arms?
I have blessed peace with my Lord so near, leaning on the everlasting
arms.
What's the secret to playing hymns effectively? Here's an excerpt from the Methodist Songs of Zion supplement hymnal:
Keys to Musical Interpretation, Performance, and Meaningful Worship
General Suggestions
DIRECTOR
Proper musical performance and interpretation are aids to meaningful worship experiences. Music is and important part of the worship service, so be sensitive to the worship leader. Worship is a total experience, and many through the musical word as well as through the spoken word.
Sometimes the place of a song in the worship service can say much about the tempo. For example, the refrain to the hymn" I Surrender All," may be used as a prayer chant, in which case it would be performed slower than usual.
Be creative and add other instruments, such as guitars, drums, and tambourines to performances, but use discretion in doing do. Don't overdo it! Hand clapping can also be a very effective with certain music genres.
ACCOMPANIST (PIANIST or ORGANIST)
Accompanying is an important role, so pay close attention to the director, soloist, and worship leader. If no one is directing the congregation, it is left to the accompanist to lead with his or her instrument, so lead forcefully.
Be careful not to play too loudly. It can overpower the singing or detract from a worship mood.
INSTRUMENTAL IMPROVISATION
The beat (rhythm) is one of the most important aspects of Black music, whether the composition is fast, slow, or moderate. It must be kept as soon as it is established. Sometimes the beat (rhythm) changes while the performance is in progress and then revert to the original beat. No matter what , keep whatever beat is established at any given time.
There are very few in moments of silence in improvisation of Black music, and when they do occur they are generally for special effects. Fill in measures of rests (or open spaces) with chords duplicated at the upper or lower octave, broken chords (arpeggios) , passing tones either as single notes or in octaves, passing tone chords, upper and lower neighboring tones, runs, turns, glissandi, chromatic motives or phrases an so on. Remember, however, that all these "extras" must be utilized with taste and discretion. Whatever the nature of your improvisation, do not leave open spaces.
The changing of keys (modulation) is very common in Black music performance. It adds variety and often heightens the emotional effect of the composition.
Most compositions can be reduced to a I-IV-V-I chord progression, whether they are written in major or minor key. Therefore, chordal embellishment or decoration is very common in black music performance. Use augmented tonic and dominant chords; dominant chords; secondary dominant chords; diminished triads; dominant, augmented, and diminished seventh chords; ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth chords; chordal inversions and altered chords. Flatted thirds, sixths and sevenths are common. Use the.
Thought this was going to be an easy course? No way, I use every one of the above techniques in my hymn playing and if you follow my examples, I will teach you how to improve your understanding of hymn playing using these techniques.
I attended a workshop this past weekend at the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, NJ conducted by Bro. Eli Wilson, Jr. His dynamic teaching was equaled by his musical ability to sing and play as he taught original worship songs. With his permission I'm going to share one of those workshop songs with you.
Song title:
No Other God Like You - in Eb written by Gail Jones-Murphy (sheet music)
Most high King
Ruler of everything
There is no other God like You (repeat)
(Refrain)
There is no other God who can save us
There is no other God who forgave us
There is no other God who loves me like you do
There is no other God like you
Morning Hymn His Eye is in the Sparrow key of Db pg 143 AAHH
How many of us have truly dwelt on these verses:
"Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows." (Mat 10:29-31)
When troubles and sickness come our way, we usually turn to worry and fretting about our situation. Civilla Martin (1869-1948) the author of today's hymn had a friend who had learned to rely on this verse and when in 1904, sickness made her bedridden she continued to trust in God. Seeing the testimony of her friend cause Civilla Martin to pen the words to our hymn, "His Eye is On The Sparrow."
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Why should I feel discouraged, Why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely and long for Heav'n and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant Friend is He;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me,
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
"Let not your heart be troubled," His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Tho' by the path He leadeth but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He cares for me.
I sing because I'm happy,
I sing because I'm free,
For His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
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Morning Hymn The Solid Rock key of F pg 385 AAHH
In 1834 Edward Mote was considering the gracious experience of a Christian and wrote the words to the hymn “the immutable basis of a sinner’s hope.” One day while visiting a friend and his sick wife, they read scripture together and also wanted to sing a hymn, but no hymn book could be found. Mote had in his pocket the words to his hymn and read them to the family. The woman’s heart was greatly encouraged by the words and requested to keep them. Mote went home and realized that if these words can help one dying woman maybe it can help others so he rewrote the words and added some more verses and included it in his “Hymns of Praise” collection. Today this hymn has a different title. It is known as “The Solid Rock.”
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My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not rust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name.
When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace;
In ev’ry high and stormy gale, my anchor holds within the veil.
His oath, His covenant, His blood, support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way, He then is all my hope and stay.
When He shall come with trumpet sound, Oh, may I then in Him be
found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne.
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.
Morning Hymn Trust and Obey key of F AAHH pg 380
In 1886, Daniel Towner, was leading the music during one of Moody's
preaching campaigns in Massachusetts. During the service a young man stood
up to give a testimony. "I am not quite sure -- but I am going to
trust, and I am going to obey." Towner jotted down the words and sent
them to his friend, John Sammis, who was a Presbyterian pastor. Sammis
using the words of this short testimony wrote the hymn we know as "Trust
and Obey." As he wrote the hymn he considered the different areas
of our life what we need to trust God about.
Verse one - our daily walk in life
Verse two - during the difficult times in life
Verse three - our total submission
Verse four - following God's call for our life
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When we walk with the Lord in the light of His Word
What a glory He sheds on our way!
While we do His good will He abides with us still,
And with all who will trust and obey.
Not a shadow can rise, not a cloud in the skies,
But His smile quickly drives it away;
Not a doubt nor a fear, not a sigh nor a tear,
Can abide while we trust and obey.
But we never can prove the delights of His love
Until all on the altar we lay;
For the favor He shows and the joy He bestows,
Are for them who will trust and obey.
Then in fellowship sweet we will sit at His feet,
Or we'll walk by His side in the way;
What He says we will do, where He sends we will go -
Never fear, only trust and obey.
Trust and obey, for there's no ther way
To be happy in Jesus,
But to trust and obey.
Morning Hymn Oh How I Love Jesus AAHH pg 291 key Ab
Frederick Whitfield was an Anglican clergyman who lived from 1829-1904. The hymn he wrote, "Oh, How I Love Jesus", became a favorite in the evangelistic crusades of Moody and Sankey. It originally had 8 stanzas but only 4 are found in most hymn books. It was first written in tract form in 1855. The entire hymn revolves around the name of Jesus. What a powerful name! The name of Jesus promises us great things from the Father. It promises to be with us in every circumstance. How we should love Jesus for all the great things He has done and is doing for us.
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There is a name I love to hear, I love to sing its worth;
It sounds like music in mine ear, the sweetest name on earth.
It tells me of a Savior's love, who died to set me free;
It tells me of His precious blood, the sinner's perfect plea.
It tells me what my Father hath in store for eve'ry day,
And tho' I tread a darksome path, yields sunshine all the way.
It tells of One whose loving heart can feel my deepest woe,
Who in each sorrow bears a part, that none can bear below.
Oh, how I love Jesus, Oh how I love Jesus,
Oh, how I love Jesus, Because He first loved me!
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Morning Hymn It Is Well with My Soul AAHH pg 377 key Db
Horatio G. Spafford was an attorney in Chicago during the year of 1874. He and his family were members of the Fullerton Avenue Presbyterian Church. Spafford and his wife had learned what it meant to completely trust God in every situation. First their only son died and then in 1871 most of their personal property were burned in the great Chicago fire. But their greatest testing came in 1874. Mrs. Spafford and their four daughters boarded the French ship "Villa de Havre" on their way to England. But just off the coast of Ireland the ship sank with 226 persons losing their lives. Horatio finally received a cable sent by his wife. It read "saved alone." As he traveled to England to comfort his wife, he was able again to gain his strength from God with the verse, "All things work together for good to them that love the Lord" (Rom 8:28) He then penned the words to our hymn "It Is Well with My Soul." (The tune was written by Phillip Bliss.)
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When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea-billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
"It is well, it is well with my soul."
Though Satan should buffet, tho' trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
My sin - oh, the bliss of this glorious thought,
My sin - not in part, but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul.
And, Lord haste the day when the faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll,
The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend,
"Even so" - it is well with my soul.
It is well with my soul,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
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Doxology Praise God From Whom All Blessing Flow AAHH pg 651 key G
During the American Civil War, in a certain overcrowded prison, men were dying daily. One of the new prisoners was a young preacher. As he saw the conditions surrounding him, he sobbed uncontrollably. Suddenly, from a window he heard, “Praise God, from whom all blessing flow . . .” More and more men began to join in, and the preacher that day was able to take courage and hope in a simple song called the “Doxology.” Thomas Ken, the composer, had been chaplain to King Charles of England. He pleaded with the king many times to turn to Christ. The outcome is unknown, but Ken was faithful and gave a witness for Christ. The words to the “Doxology” are just a part of two larger hymns he wrote entitled Morning and Evening hymns.
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Praise God, from whom all blessing flow;
Praise Him all creatures here below;
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host;
Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
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Angels We Have Heard on High - AAHH pg 206 key of F
William Studwell,
Of the several widespread myths about Christmas carols, the most intriguing is almost surely the amazing Telesphorus tale. The story line of this incredible bit of misinformation relates the singing of a nativity hymn in the year A.D. 129 via the orders of Bishop Telesphorus of Rome. This ancient Latin hymn, the anecdote continues, ultimately evolved into the refrain of the famous French carol "Les anges dans nos campagnes."
In fact the carol is probably a product of eighteenth-century French and is totally anonymous. By 1816, the carol was known in England, for on that date James Montgomery (1771-1854) derived his renowned carol "Angels From the Realms of Glory" from "Les anges." The same tune was used with Montgomery's lyrics until the 1867 composition by Henry Thomas Smart (1813-1879).
In 1855 the carol was first published in France, and in 1862 the most familiar of several English translations, "Angels We Have Heard on High." was published without indication of authorship. The 1862 translation, though, varied considerably from the form now used. In 1916 an American carol collection [Hutchins, Carols Old and Carols New] printed the present version, again anonymous, and it is suspected that this was the first appearance of the revision
1. Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o'er the plains,
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains.
Refrain
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
Gloria, in excelsis Deo!
2. Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
Which inspire your heavenly song? Refrain
3. Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King. Refrain
4. See Him in a manger laid,
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our hearts in love we raise. Refrain
Away In A Manger AAHH pg 208 key of F
Although some believe this carol was penned by Martin Luther, German religious reformer and author of a number of beautiful hymns, it is almost certainly of late- 19th century American origin. Verses 1 and 2 appeared anonymously in Little Children’s Book for Schools and Families, by J. C. File, Philadelphia, 1885, and verse 3 is by John Thomas McFarland (1851-1913). The tune given here is that most used in England, the 'Cradle song' by American Gospel song writer W. J. Kirkpatrick (1838-21). Another popular tune for it in the U.S.A. is 'Mueller', probably written by James R. Murray, 1887.
1. Away in a manger, no crib for His bed,
The little Lord Jesus laid down His sweet head;
The stars in the sky looked down where He lay,
The little Lord Jesus, asleep in the hay.
2. The cattle are lowing, the poor Baby wakes
But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes.
I love thee, Lord Jesus, look down from the sky.
And stay by the cradle till morning is nigh.
3. Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask Thee to stay,
Close by me forever, and love me, I pray!
Bless all the dear children in Thy tender care
And take us to heaven, to Live with Thee there.
Go Tell it On the Mountain AAHH pg 202 key of G
According to The Hymnuts, from an old Negro spiritual "When I was a seeker" this Christmas hymn was written by John Wesley Work Jr. It was included in a 1940 book, American Negro Songs and Spirituals.
According to George Pullen Jackson, the tune "Go Tell It" is closely related to the spiritual "We'll March Around Jerusalem." The tune has similarities to "Oh, Susanna" and "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," by George F. Root.
William L. Simon, ed., Reader’s Digest Merry Christmas Songbook (1981)
To black slaves in the United States, the birth of a Savior who would set all men free was a miracle to be sung about. And when there was something so notable to tell, what better place to tell it from than a mountain, just as Jesus had chosen for His Sermon on the Mount. "Go Tell It on the Mountain," an authentic spiritual that dates probably from the early 1800s, was first popularized in 1879 by the Fisk University Jubilee Singers. This chorus traveled throughout the United States and Europe at the end of the last century, earning scholarship-fund money for Fisk, a school founded to educate freed slaves.
Chorus:
Go, tell it on the mountain
Over the hills and everywhere
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born
1. While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night,
Behold throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light
2. The shepherds feared and trembled
When lo! above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed the (our) Savoir's birth; Chorus:
3. Down in a lowly manger
The (our) humble Christ was born;
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn. Chorus:
Morning Hymn Crown Him with Many Crowns AAAH pg 288 key of D
Based on the verse, Revelation 19:12, Matthew Bridges, in 1851, wrote the hymn, “Crown Him With Many Crowns.” Bridges became a convert to Roman Catholicism at the age of 48 and then wrote this hymn, the original title of which was “The Song of the Seraphs.” 30 years later Godfrey Thring wrote six more stanzas and added it to the six stanzas that Bridges had written. Each of the stanzas exalts Christ for some specific aspect of His person or ministry. In most hymnals, we find only four stanzas. Stanzas 1, 2 and 4 have been written by Bridges and number 3 by Thring.
“His eyes are like blazing fire, and on His head are many crowns .
. . He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is the Word of
God.” (Rev 19:12, 13)
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Crown Him with many crowns, the Lamb upon His throne:
Hark! how the heav’nly anthem drowns all music but its own!
Awake, my soul, and sing of him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King thru all eternity.
Crown Him the Lord of love: Behold His hands and side--
Rich wounds, yet visible above, in beauty glorified;
No angel in the sky can fully bear that sight,
But downward bends his wond’ring eye at mysteries so bright.
Crown Him the Lord of life: Who triumphed o’er the grave,
Who rose victorious to the strife for those He came to save;
His glories now we sing, who died and rose on high,
Who died eternal life to bring and lives that death may die.
Crown Him the Lord of heav’n: One with the Father known;
One with the Sprit thru Him giv’n from yonder glorious throne.
To Thee be endless praise, for Thou for us hast died;
Be Thou, O Lord, thru endless days adored and magnified.
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Morning Hymn Jesus Paid It All
AAHH pg 357 key of Db
One Sunday morning Elvina Hall was sitting in the choir section at her church, Monument Street Methodist Church, in Baltimore, Maryland. She wasn't exactly bored with the sermon that Pastor George Schrick was preaching, but while he spoke about Jesus, Elvina's mind drifted to what Jesus had done for us and realized that Jesus had truly paid the entire price for our sins. The words to our hymn "Jesus Paid It All," were born that morning and the only thing Elvina had to write the words on was the inside cover of her hymnbook. Later, when she gave the words to her pastor she found out that the organist had just written a tune and both words and tune fit perfectly together. The hymn was published in 1879.
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I hear the Savior say, "Thy strength indeed is small!
Child of weakness, watch and pray, find in Me thine all in all."
Lord, now indeed I find Thy pow'r, and Thine alone,
Can change the leper's spots and melt the heart of stone.
For nothing good have I whereby Thy grace to claim-
I'll wash my garments white in the blood of Calv'rys Lamb.
And when before the throne I stand in Him complete,
"Jesus died my soul to save," my lips shall still repeat.
Jesus paid it all,
All to Him I owe;
Sin had left a crimson stain-
He washed it white as snow.
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Morning Hymn There is a Fountain Filled with Blood AAHH pg 257 key of Bb
William Cowper (1731-1800) had a life of great emotional turmoil and yet, he was able to write some very inspiring and beautiful hymns for us to sing today. "There is a Fountain," is an example of one of his hymns. He wrote the hymn based on the verse Zech 13:1, "In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness." Cowper grew up being pressured to study law. But before he could take his final exams he had a mental breakdown and was admitted into an asylum. But it was during this time that he was able to find out what Jesus had done for him and so at the age of 33 William Cowper gave his heart to Jesus, the Savior. He moved to Olney and became very good friends with John Newton. Together they were able to compile the "Olney Hymns". There were a total of 349 hymns in the book, 67 were written by Cowper. This man who still suffered from depression but learned that he could trust in God to take away the guilt of this sins by coming to God's fountain of Jesus' sin cleansing blood.
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There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Immanuel's veins;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains:
Lose all their guilty stains, lose all their guilty stains;
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, lose all their guilty stains.
The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away:
Wash all my sins away, wash all my sins away,
And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away.
Dear dying Lamb, Thy precious blood shall never lose its pow'r,
Till all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more:
Be saved, to sin no more, be saved, to sin no more;
Till all the ransomed Church of God be saved, to sin no more.
E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die:
And shall be till I die, and shall be till I die;
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing Thy pow'r to save,
When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue lies silent in the grave:
Lies silent in the grave, lies silent in the grave;
When this poor lisping, stamm'ring tongue lies silent in the grave.
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Morning Hymn Old Rugged Cross AAHH pg 244 key of Bb
During a period of spiritual struggling, George Bennard (1873-1958) started to study and contemplate the cross of Christ. Bennard had been very active in the Salvation Army and later was ordained as a evangelist for the Methodist Episcopal Church. As he studied on the verse Philippians 3:10, "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death," Bennard got the theme for a hymn that has become a favorite for many, "The Old Rugged Cross."
**Another thought about this hymn.
In 1913, Rev. George Bennard, an evangelist in the Methodist/Episcopal church was “praying for a full understanding of the cross and its plan in Christianity.” Over a period of time he studied more and more about the cross. He prayed and meditated on the cross of Christ, until one day he was able to say, “I saw the Christ of the Cross as if I were seeing John 3:16 leave the printed page, take form and act out the meaning of redemption.” Through this experience and others in his life he penned the words and wrote the tune to our hymn,“The Old Rugged Cross.”
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On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering
and shame;
And I love that old cross where the dearest and best for a world of lost
sinners was slain.
O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world, has a wondrous
attraction for me;
For the dear Lamb of God left His glory above to bear it to dark Calvary.
In the old rugged cross, stained with blood so divine, a wondrous
beauty I see;
For 'twas on that old dross Jesus suffered and died to pardon ad sanctify
me.
To the old rugged cross I will ever be true, its shame and reproach
gladly bear;
Then He'll call me some day to my home far away, where His glory forever
I'll share.
So I'll cherish the old rugged cross,
Till my trophies at last I lay down;
I will cling to the old rugged cross,
And exchange it someday for a crown.
Morning Hymn At Calvary AAHH pg
246 key of C
Since we are looking at American hymnology, let's also look at American hymn writers. Today is the author William Newell (1868-1956) born in Savannah, Ohio. Newell was an evangelist, Bible teacher and served for a time as assistant superintendent of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. One day while Newell was on his way to teach a class, he thought about what Christ had done for him on the cross. The words to "At Calvary" came to him and he quickly entered an empty classroom and penned them down on the only available paper he had, an old envelope. He gave the words to Daniel Towner, who was the director of music at the school. Within an hour, our hymn, "At Calvary" was born. In 1895 it was published and Christians around the world have sang this testimonial as their own.
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Years I spent in vanity and pride,
Caring not my Lord was crucified,
Knowing not it was for me He died on Calvary.
By God's Word at last my sin I learn,
Then I trembled at the law I'd spurned,
Till my guilty soul imploring turned to Calvary.
Now I've giv'n to Jesus everything;
Now I gladly own Him as my King;
Now my raptured soul can only sing of Calvary.
O, the love that drew salvation's plan!
O, the grace that brought it down to man!
O, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary!
Mercy there was great, and grace was free;
pardon there was multiplied to me;
There my burdened soul found liberty, At Calvary.
We will post Keyboard and
Piano video clips here.
pg 296 AAHH
Seasonal
songs suggestions from the AAHH Will
be posted here for Sunday Morning Services
His Eye Is On the Sparrow pg 143
Solid Rock pg 385
Trust and Obey pg 380
It Is Well With My Soul pg 377
O How I Love Jesus pg 291
Doxology pg 651
Angels We Have Heard on High pg 206
Away In A Manger pg 208
Go Tell it On the Mountain pg 202
Crown Him with Many Crowns pg 288
Jesus Paid It All pg 357
TBA