Your favorite hymns ?

Holy, Holy, Holy,
Guide Me oh Thou Great Jehovah
It Is Well with My Soul
Blessed Assurance
and probably my all-time favorite - Oh Love That Will Not Let Me Go - brings tears to my eyes each time I sing it.

 

"Onward Christian Soldiers"

"At the Cross"

"Jesus Saves"

"How Great Thou Art"

Those are the main ones that jump out at me

 

"Heaven's Jubilee"

"Have a Little Talk With Jesus"

"Amazing Grace"

"The Old Rugged Cross"

"Jesus, Hold My Hand"

 

At the risk of being battered:godisgood: I love
Faith of our Fathers
Sancte Pie Decime
O veni, veni Emmanuel

 

Issac Watts; When I survey the Wonderous Cross

 

-How Tedious and Tasteless

-How Firm a Foundation

-Arise My Soul

-Satisfied (maybe my favorite)

-Come Thou Fount

-Jesus, What a Friend For Sinners

-The Sands of Time are Sinking

-Jesus Lover of My Soul

-I Need Thee Every Hour

-Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us

-Brethren We Have Met to Worship

Can you tell I love the hymns?

 

Without question, I would choose:

The Church's One Foundation

Cheers,

Jim

 

Favorites include --

Come Christians Join to Sing

Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone

Shout to the North

A Mighty Fortress (especially on Reformation Sunday)

Arise My Soul Arise

 

"Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing"
"What Wondrous Love Is This"
"A Mighty Fortress"
"The Church's One Foundation"
"My Shepherd Will Supply My Need"
"Jesus, Thy Boundless Love to Me"
"O Sacred Head Now Wounded"
"Jesus, the Very Thought of Thee"
"Share His Love" (my father wrote this, words and music)
"Let the Song Go Round the Earth"
"On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand"
"Do Not I Love Thee"

Tim Reynolds

 

I like robust hymns with pithy texts:

A Mighty Fortress
Holy, Holy, Holy
Built on a Rock the Church Doth Stand
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation
Jesus Calls Us
Lift Every Voice and Sing

And, echoing another poster who wondered why one of his/her favorites was no longer in the hymnals, I don't find another favorite too often any more: Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

 

"How Great Thou Art"
"Amazing Grace"
"Old Rugged Cross"
"Blessed Be The Tie That Binds"
"Doxology"

 

I have so many favorites that I really can't narrow it down to one or two.

This morning, I guess I'd have to say "When Morning Gilds the Skies" (all 432 verses of it).

We've raised our children on hymns from day one and it's really amazing how much of Christian doctrine they've always understood, just picking them up from hymns.

I know that in my own experience, I love to keep an old hymnal by my bedisde and use it in my devotions. I also like to go to Cyberhymnal.net and just read the words of the great hymns and discover new hymns.

 

My wife is British, and brought with her the English Baptist hymnal used in the churches of her childhood. Wow, how many verses some of those hymns have? Can you hear us Americans now, "Let's sing the first, fifth, and eighteenth verses!"?

 

Holy Holy Holy
Amazing Grace
Holy God, We Praise Your Name
How Great Thou Art
Come, Christians, Join to Sing

 

Yeah, I tend to lose track after eight or nine verses. Some of them are very long.

 

One of the best! :thumbs:

I also like "At the Cross," also written by Issac Watts.