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Psalms 92:1-4 NASB
“It is good to give thanks to the Lord
And to sing praises to Your name, Most High;
To declare Your goodness in the morning
And Your faithfulness by night,
With the ten-stringed lute and with the harp,
With resounding music on the lyre.
For You, Lord, have made me...
Last Christmas, my wife got me a midi synthesizer and since then, I've been hooked. I have been a musician my whole life but have never delved into this side of the art form. Every time I ask others for opinions on what they think of my music, they either don't respond or try and sell me...
It's been ages since I've posted. But here's something I'd love to share. This is a hymn I recently recorded with visual art. Nothing like new arrangements of old hymns.
I believe and confess, as Coptic priests proclaim in the liturgy after the Epiklesis, that in a properly conducted sacramental liturgy, that the bread on the Paten or Diskos consecrated by the presbyter or bishop truly becomes the actual body of Christ, and likewise the wine in the Chalice truly...
The hymn I Gave My Life For Thee has the following verse (emphasis added):
My Father's house of light,
My glory-circled throne
I left for earthly night,
For wanderings sad and lone
It appears to present the speaker, Jesus, as having a "glory-circled throne" that He left when He came to this...
The focus of this blog is the description of prayer, mystical theology, liturgy, and liturgical beauty, which is to say, the beauty of how we worship our Lord, and the expressions of that worship, whether through ritual, sacred music, iconography and other artwork, and architecture.
One of the 'issues' of being Oriental Orthodox is that you cannot always tell how what you are doing connects with what others are doing, even in the communion, let alone outside of it. By that, I mean (for instance) how the 'Coptic' version (which is entirely in Greek) of the hymn "O Monogenes...
I am a confessional Lutheran from the U.K. (ELCE which is strongly connected with LCMS) and have been for about two years now. Because my Christian life has been spent for the bulk of time in the charismatic churches, through Calvary Chapel and then the Reformed Baptist church; I personally...
Being a member of one of the only two traditional churches which does not use the octoechos/8 mode system common to traditional Christian liturgical singing (the other church being that of the Orthodox Tewahedo Ethiopians and Eritreans who have their own Zema system credited to St. Yared in the...
I hear it too often these days, but no one has taken their time to respond with a legit argument. Why is modern Christian music so bad? Of course there are plenty of bad songs that misrepresent the gospel, and Jesus, and Christianity as a whole, but don't throw out the baby with the bath water...
The Lord put this hymn in my mind today to speak encouragement to my heart:
Be Still, My Soul
Katharina von Schlegel / Jean Sibelius
Be still, my soul: the Lord is on thy side.
Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain.
Leave to thy God to order and provide;
In every change, He faithful will...
We are a blended worship style church, and we currently use some pads for our contemporary half of the set. Curious if anyone uses pads along with your hymns. If so, what are you using? Organ pads?
Worship God in Spirit and in Truth | The Result Achieved by Knowing God
One day,
you will feel that the Creator
is no longer a riddle,
that the Creator has never been hidden from you,
that the Creator
has never concealed His face from you,
that the Creator is not at all far from you,
that the...
The Heart’s Voice of a Created Being
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I wanted to cry, but no place felt right. I wanted to sing, but no song was found. I wanted to express the love of a created being. Searching high and low, but no words could say, could say just how I feel. Practical and true God, the love inside my...
Rendition by members of Parish of Christ Church, Singapore on 10th September 2017
Hymn tune : Lyngham
Acapella Singing
Youtube link :
1) O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!
2) My gracious Master and my...
My daughter was baptised this previous Sunday. During the service, they had a special singer who came in to sing three hyms.
His first was beautiful, bringing my wife to tears.
His second, after the first line, it suddenly became a chipmunk voice. He tried to soldier on for a line or two, but...