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Rainy Day Songs

Posted by Sherry on May 15, 2010 in General, Music and Hymns

“Oooh I hear laughter in the rain, walking hand in and with the one I love. Oooh, how I love the rainy days and the happy way I feel inside.”~Neil Sedaka I love rainy days. So I thought, since it’s a lovely rainy day here in Houston, I’d make up a playlist of rainy day [...]

 
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Pro-Life Country

Posted by Sherry on Mar 10, 2010 in Current Events, Music and Hymns

You might find this country song a bit too sentimental and simplistic, but I thought it showed how the message of the value of human life is resonating in all sorts of sub-cultures, even country music.

 
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Soundtrack for the Book of Esther

Posted by Sherry on Jan 27, 2010 in 2010 Projects, General, Music and Hymns, Top 100 Hymn Project

I’ve been reading and studying the book of Esther all month. Here are a few songs that go well with the themes of Esther: courage, trust, God’s sovereignty, our willing obedience. God of Grace and God of Glory by Harry Emerson Fosdick. Grant us the wisdom of a Mordecai and the courage of an Esther. [...]

 
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Christmas in Coventry, England, c. 1200

Posted by Sherry on Dec 11, 2009 in Celebrations, Christian History, Christmas, Music and Hymns, Poets and poetry

Neither in halls nor yet in bowers, Born would he not be, Neither in castles nor yet in towers That seemly were to see; But at his Father’s will, The prophecy to fulfill, Betwixt an ox and an ass Jesus, this king, born he was. Heaven he bring us till! ~Coventry Mystery Play, c.1200. Taken [...]

 
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Viva la Vida, or Death and All His Friends

Posted by Sherry on Dec 8, 2009 in Current Events, General, Music and Hymns

Tonight we went to a performance by the musical theater class that some of my young people—Brown Bear Daughter (14), Artiste Daughter (20), Drama Daughter (18), and Karate Kid (12)—attend. The students all did a fantastic job, presenting songs and choreography such as “The Farmer and the Cowman Should Be Friends” from Oklahoma! and “My [...]

 
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Hymn of the Week: Angels We Have Heard on HIgh

Posted by Sherry on Dec 6, 2009 in Celebrations, Christmas, General, Music and Hymns

Lyrics: Traditional French carol, Les Anges dans nos campagnes. Translated to English by James Chadwick, 1862. Music: GLORIA arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes. Theme: Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his [...]

 
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Hymn of the Week: The First Noel the Angel Did Say

Posted by Sherry on Nov 29, 2009 in Celebrations, Christmas, General, Music and Hymns

Lyrics: Unknown, of Cornish origin, 1400′s(?). Music: Traditional English Melody from W. Sandy’s Christmas Carols, 1833. Theme: Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. Zechariah 9:9 In the [...]

 
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Hymn of the Week: When Morning Gilds the Skies

Posted by Sherry on Nov 24, 2009 in General, Music and Hymns

Lyrics: Anonymous German hymn (Katholisches Gesangbuch), 1744. Translated to English by Edward Caswell. Music: LAUDES DOMINI by Joseph Barnby, 1868. Theme: They were also to stand every morning to thank and praise the LORD. They were to do the same in the evening. I Chronicles 23:30. Edward Caswell graduated from Oxford University and became an [...]

 
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Hymn of the Week: We Gather Together

Posted by Sherry on Nov 15, 2009 in Celebrations, General, Music and Hymns

Lyrics: Adrianus Valerius (aka François Valéry). Translated to English by Theodore Baker in 1894. Music: KREMSER, a Dutch tune arranged by Edouard Kremser. Theme: Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. I John 4:4. This hymn was [...]

 
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Semicolon Review of Peace Like a River by Leif Enger

Posted by Sherry on Oct 21, 2009 in 2010 Projects, Adult Fiction, General, Music and Hymns, Top 100 Hymn Project

Reprint from May, 2005: Peace Like a River tells the story of the Land family, father Jeremiah, two sons, Davy and Reuben, and a daughter, Swede. The children’s mother walked out on them long before the time of the novel. Reuben, eleven years old, tells the story. Davy is sixteen when the story starts, and [...]

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