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hymns

  1. Quid est Veritas?

    Sound problems in Church

    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...
  2. AMM

    (Blog) Spiritual Darkness

    I've been thinking about this lately, more than I have in the past. I think it's incredibly easy for us in the West to lose perspective of things - both when we think our political situation is horrible and when we think that everything is fine in the Church. The fact is, Satan is continuously...
  3. Pilgrim

    O Lord, Our Lord, How Excellent

    O Lord, Our Lord, How Excellent Praise the Lord — His Victory and Exaltation Hymn is based on Psalms 8. Oh Lord our God how excellent is Your name in all the earth.
  4. dzheremi

    New Coptic chant album "Hymns of the Coptic Orthodox Church" released in France

    I guess I'm a bit behind the times, but apparently the well-established French record label Inedit has released a collection of Coptic chants. I always get excited to find things like this, because there is very little from our tradition which is released into the wider world (much less than in...
  5. saulfactuspaul

    Pray for West Papua

    Hi everyone, Australia for to long has turned a blind eye to Indonesia's poor human rights record despite us and the rest of the world turning a blind eye they have repaid our goodness with arrogance.In 2015 Australia pleaded with the Indonesian authorities to spare the lives of eight people...
  6. RC1970

    Favorite Christmas Hymns

    O holy Child of Bethlehem, Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin and enter in, Be born in us today. We hear the Christmas angels The great glad tidings tell: Oh, come to us, abide with us, Our Lord Immanuel! O Little Town Of Bethlehem - 4th verse
  7. I

    My favorite Hymns/Worship Music

    Audrey Assad is my favorite Christian singer, I think she's simply amazing. :sparkles: Oh The Deep, Deep Love of Jesus:
  8. dzheremi

    LDS Popular LDS hymns as a window on Mormon theology

    Hello all, In the thread "Joseph Smith's claim of an apostasy is a lie", I tried without success to apply the basic Christian principle of lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) to Mormonism by looking at what their worship could tell us about their theology. That...