Listen to Samples:
1. Thy Mercy My God
2. Free Grace
3. God Be Merciful (Psalm 51)
4. Sometimes A Light Suprises
5. How Sweet The Name of Jesus Sounds
6. O Love Incomprehensible
7. Jesus I My Cross Have Taken
8. The Sands Of Time Are Sinking
9. Psalm 73
10. What Woundrous Love Is This
11. Poor Sinner Dejected With Fear
12. O Day Of Rest And Gladness
13. Laden With Guilt And Full Of Fears
14. On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand
Worship is always formative. It
shapes us as a people of God
and
thus it matters what we
sing. We
have found that the great
hymns
of the church have
unparalleled
power to mold us in our
calling to
“live our lives as strangers
here
in reverent fear” (1Pet
1:17.)
These hymns are indelible
reminders that God’s people
can
know the transforming power
of
the gospel in the midst of sin and sorrow. We
can find “joy in
every station, something still to do or bear” if
by grace we
are able to head the hymnwriter and “Think what
Spirit
dwells within thee, think what Father’s smiles
are thine,
think that Jesus died to win thee - child of
heaven cans’t
thou repine?”
In an age of instant gratification, we need the
help of these
poets of the church to help us live and think as
genuine
Christians, and to embrace the vital truths
captured in
these hymns. It is not easy to believe that the
gospel of God’s
grace has power to so transform our hearts that
we could
actually cry out “Go then earthly fame and
treasure, Come
disaster, scorn and pain, In thy service pain is
pleasure,
With thy favor loss is gain.” It is difficult in
our culture of
personal peace and affluence to really believe
(and enjoy)
the fact that “Soon shall pass thy pilgrim days,
Hope shall
change to glad fruition, Faith to sight and
prayer to praise.”
But we have found singing these hymns has helped
us. We
pray that you might find the same.
Soli Deo Gloria,
Rev. Kevin Twit
College Pastor, Christ Community Church,
Franklin TN
Campus Minister, Reformed University Fellowship
at
Belmont University
Our Comment
Average Customer Review: 5 out of 5
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Rating: 5
Review By: Kyle Newcomer
I bought this album a week
ago at RUF's annual
summer conference. I
really love the hymns on the
record and the style of
music is right up my alley. It
is wonderful to go through
the day with these songs
playing in your head.
Sometimes it is just
mindless singing, but when
you're singing, "No chilling
winds nor poisonous
breath will reach that
healthful shore," its hard not
to get caught up with joyous
hope about our eteranal
rest. I highly recommend
both "Pilgrim Days" and
"Indellible Grace." |
