Woman expresses freedom
by Vince Wright | April 17, 2022 | 11:59 am

KDMusic – Freedom’s Slave

Easter is a time to reflect on Jesus’ lovingkindness towards us.  He paid an incredible price to become one of us, die for our lawbreaking, and rose again, defeating death and offering us hope. 

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Forest
by Vince Wright | April 10, 2022 | 9:00 am

Fanny Crosby – Blessed Assurance

Fanny Crosby was a blind American songwriter.  From 1844 to 1915, she wrote over 8,000 hymns and Gospel songs, earning her the title “Queen of Gospel Song Writers”.  Her best-known works include To God

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Friends
by Vince Wright | March 9, 2022 | 11:59 am

Joseph M. Scriven – What A Friend We Have In Jesus

Joseph M. Scriven was an Irish poet most famous for his song What A Friend We Have In Jesus.  He also taught at Woodstock and Brantford in Ontario, worked as a laborer, and tutored

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Anchor
by Vince Wright | February 2, 2022 | 11:59 am

Priscilla J. Owens – Will Your Anchor Hold

Priscilla J. Owens was a public and Sunday school teacher in Baltimore, Maryland.  She wrote hymns for children’s services.  Her most famous hymn is Will Your Anchor Hold, also titled We Have an Anchor. 

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Mic
by Vince Wright | January 30, 2022 | 11:59 am

Keith & Kristyn Getty – Speak O Lord

Keith & Kristyn Getty are hymnists for a modern generation.  Keith had a solo career before he married Kristyn in 2004, morphing into a duet. The Getty’s released sixteen albums and one EP together,

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Sunrise
by Vince Wright | December 22, 2021 | 11:59 am

Anonymous – O Come O Come Emmanuel

The song that we know today as O Come O Come Emmanuel has its roots in Latin, from a likely six-century evening prayer book known as O Antiphons.  It also happens to be my

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Hay
by Vince Wright | December 15, 2021 | 11:59 am

William Chatterton Dix – What Child Is This?

English hymnist William Chatterton Dix wrote several Christmas songs.  Though he was professionally known as a marine insurance broker, he was passionate about writing hymns and carols.  His most famous works include To You,

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Bethlehem
by Vince Wright | December 8, 2021 | 11:59 am

Anonymous – O Come All Ye Faithful

The author of Adeste Fideles is unknown.  Though sometimes attributed to John Francis Wade, John Reading, or King John IV of Portugal, it has also been credited to anonymous Cistercian monks.  It was later

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Town
by Vince Wright | December 1, 2021 | 11:59 am

Phillips Brooks – O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Phillips Brooks was a 19th-century American Episcopal clergyman who is best known for writing the hymn O Little Town Of Bethlehem.  He became an ordained priest in 1860 and published several books on his

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Wheat
by Vince Wright | November 24, 2021 | 11:59 am

Henry Alford – Come, Ye Thankful People, Come

Every Thanksgiving, many of us Americans take time to visit family, thankful for everything God has given us.  Despite its flaws (I’ll get to that later), I chose to review Henry Alford’s Come, Ye

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