For almost two thousand years, Christians have used music as a way to worship. In the Bible the Apostle Paul writes: “Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs.” The word ...

Hymns have a way of bringing us back to truth beyond just our own emotions. I think hymns do that more than some of the contemporary worship music that is more singularly emotive.

King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Hulton Archive via Getty ImagesThanksgiving doesn’t ...

Worship leaders Keith and Kristyn Getty recently updated a famous missions hymn—“Facing a Task Unfinished”—in order to inspire evangelism.Meanwhile, the Hymn Society released 55 old ...

But hymns of praise and gratitude have been central to Jewish and Christian worship for millennia. In fact, they go back to one of the best-known scenes in the Hebrew Bible. Fleeing Pharaoh ...

There is another ancient Easter poem which is often classed among the Ambrosian hymns, though its place is probably in the sixth century. It begins “ Ad cœnam Agni providi,” and appears in ...

Old hymns are old, but still meant for today. Abe Villarreal. Everyday Observations. I never thought I would like old hymns as much as I like them these days.

In her last days it was only the old hymns that endured. Through many dangers, toils, and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home. I ...