Category: The Midweek Hymn

TODAY is Palm Sunday, and I can’t do better than repeat the story about Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem to meet the barbaric fate he knew awaited him as I told it … Continue readingAll Glory, Laud and Honour

IT HAS been a voyage of discovery for me this week. It is the first time I have written about a hymn I don’t know, and along the way I … Continue readingVictorian gems

I THOUGHT we could do with something uplifting this week, and I hope this hymn, with its repeated line ‘Let there be light!’ fits the bill. The words were written … Continue readingThou Whose Almighty Word

THIS is a bit shorter than my usual Midweek Hymn, partly because I have already told the story of the the writer, and partly because with this emergency there seem … Continue readingBlessed Assurance

THIS hymn was written specifically for Trinity Sunday, which is the first Sunday after Pentecost, which in turn is 50 days after Easter Sunday. It seems a shame not to … Continue readingHoly, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

WE are now in Lent, when Christians commemorate the time Jesus spent in the wilderness before beginning his ministry. He ate nothing for 40 days and 40 nights and had … Continue readingForty Days and Forty Nights

SOMETHING a bit different this week. His Eye is on the Sparrow is a Gospel hymn mainly associated with black singers, but it was the work of two white people. The lyrics … Continue readingHis Eye is on the Sparrow

AN Anglican clergyman was travelling through a gorge in the Mendip Hills when he was caught in a storm. Finding refuge in a rocky fissure, he did the obvious thing … Continue readingRock of Ages

THIS hymn was suggested by our loyal reader ‘Starshiptrooper’, and I’m glad he did because I don’t think I would have remembered it by myself. It was written in 1861 … Continue readingAngel Voices, Ever Singing

THIS is quite an unusual hymn in that the most popular tune is by a composer who is still living. The words were written in 1870 by Caroline Maria Noel … Continue readingAt the Name of Jesus