How Sweet The Sound

We Three Kings

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What Child Is This?

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May the peace and comfort

offered by God's love

be known to all.

Spiritual Sunday And Christmas Around Our Home - Day Twenty-One

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This is amazing.  I hope you take the time to watch it and listen.

Today I am sharing this picture taken in our dining room.  I have shared this before, but all of the little angels are bells, and there are bells hanging from the door knob.  This came to mind because of the song I am sharing today.  The music to my favorite song, Amazing Grace, is framed and hanging above the chest.

Away In A Manger And Christmas Around Our Home Day Fourteen

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This picture was taken in our living room.  I'm sure you see many things that you have seen in other pictures.  Our living room is one of my favorite rooms in our home, and it is one of my places to read and enjoy the quiet.

David Bowie and Bing Crosby And Christmas Around Our Home - Day Seven

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Today I am sharing this video featuring David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing a Christmas melody.  I actually remember when this aired.  I thought it was beautiful then, and I still love it.

I've shared these little angel bells with you last year, but I love them. I hope you will enjoy them again. These angels sit atop the silver chest in our dining room. The chest was made from an old spool cabinet which belonged to one of my great-aunts. The little angels are bells, and each one holds a banner of the greeting Merry Christmas in different languages. My mother got the angels during the first few years she and my father were married

Bless This House

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The first time I remember hearing this I was about ten years old.  We were having the dedication and first service for the new sanctuary in church.  I remember experiencing a deep spiritual feeling as I listened to the message, the music and thought of how hard everyone had worked to build this beautiful place for worship.

My prayer is for God to bless all of us and our homes.

Just A Little Talk With Jesus

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Reverend Cleavant Derricks (May 13, 1910 - 1977) studied at Cadek Conservatory of Music in Knoxville, A & I State University and American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville.  When he was 21 years of age, he directed a gospel choir of more than 100 voices in Washington, D.C. at the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church.

Derricks counted among his friends many well-known artists, one of which was Mahalia Jackson.  He pastored churches in Tennessee, Beloit, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.  Reverend Deloit has many outstanding credits—pastor, church builder, choir director, poet, musician, and composer of note, having written more than 300 songs and several song books. Among his more famous songs are the much-recorded and performed "Just A Little Talk with Jesus".  He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2001.

Everlasting

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Are You Washed in the Blood?

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Elisha Hoffman was born in Pennsylvania in 1839, and he died ninety years later in 1929 in Chicago.  Elisha enrolled in the Union Bible Seminary in Pennsylvania, but when the Civil War erupted, he served with the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry Division.

Near the end of the war, he married Susan Orwig, and they moved to Cleveland, Ohio.  Elisha was hired as the publishing agent of the Evangelical Association.  He later pastored churches in Ohio, Illinois and Michigan.

In 1894, he became the music editor for Hope Publishing Company, and remained in that post until 1912.  Through those years, he published fifty songbooks and hymnals and wrote the words or music to at least one thousand gospel and Sunday school songs.  "Are You Washed in the Blood?" first appeared in Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and Sunday School in 1878.

I want you all to meet my cousin, Mike. Actually, Mike is my cousin by marriage. He has been married to my cousin for twenty-four years. Wow! I had to open my genealogy program to find out just how long they had been married. It seems they will be having the famous silver wedding anniversary next time around. Anyway, it seems like I've known Mike forever. And, I definitely remember the first time I met him. You see, I am 5'2" tall, and Mike is very, very tall. (Just how tall are you, Mike?) I just kept looking up and up, and there he was. My mother's family is what some might say "on the short side", and Mike seems very tall to all of us. Mike loves my cousin, and that is important to me. They have four children, and they are grandparents, too. Young grandparents. Wink! This weekend I received a telephone call from Mike about starting a blog, and ... he did it. I am asking that you all go introduce yourselves to my cousin Mike. His first post is so moving; it is about his experience taking God into his life. So, head on over to Mike at Finding My Religion. Be sure to say hello, and tell him I sent you. I believe he is going to have some important things to discuss with us in the future. Let's all help Mike get started toward a great blogging experience.

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder

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This favorite hymn was written by James Black.  He was calling roll for a youth meeting at his Methodist church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1893.  The name of a young girl, Bessie, was not answered, and he was crestfallen at her absence.  James commented, "O God, when my own name is called up yonder, may I be there to respond!"  When he returned home, he went to the piano and wrote the words and music to this hymn.