You’d think that there was only one hymn about the angels making the A-list since they are so often all lumped together. YouTube has many versions labeled Angels from the Realms of Glory that are actually Angels We Have Heard on High. Oh well, just like Abraham Lincoln once said, “You can’t trust everything you […]
Angels play a significant role in the Christmas story and many hymns point to this fact. An angel, Gabriel, brought good news to Mary about the favor she had with God and how she would be the one—the only one—in all human history to bear the Christ Child. Angels were the host of heaven as […]
As we continue to Carol Me, Christmas, we’ll look at one which is a bit lesser known. Lift Up Your Heads O Mighty Gates may be used for Advent and is present in a few hymnals for that purpose, but it’s not as well known as many other Advent hymns. It’s another one from the […]
You gotta hand it to Charles Wesley. He has written the lyrics of so many songs of hope. In the course of his career, he wrote the words to over 6,000 hymns, including many of our favorites. Today, we’ll look at the first of the ones he wrote which are often used at Christmas: Come […]
Let’s Carol Me, Christmas–telling the true Christmas story—with another historic hymn. Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence is an ancient chant, a Cherubic Hymn and devotion based on words from Habakkuk 2:20, “Let all the earth keep silence before him”. Tomorrow’s carol will be uplifting, but today’s is another hymn written in a minor key which […]
As we continue to Carol Me, Christmas in our 2014 Advent season, the words of today’s traditional Christmas carol, Comfort Comfort O My People, come straight out of the Bible. It’s a passage of Scripture that has also been used in Handel’s Messiah for Comfort Ye My People (Isaiah 40:1-10). These same verses are also […]
