Joachim Neander was a German hymn writer and teacher in the late 1600s. He wrote many hymns that focused on praising God for His power, care, and presence in daily life. His work has been sung in ...

Mission Praise--which has sold more than 2 million copies as one of most popular hymn books in Britain and around the world--is now available online. LONDON--Churches across the world are able to sing ...

Thanksgiving doesn’t ring in the ear for months on end, unlike another holiday that lies just ahead. Yet readers may remember a couple of hymns that roll around each November in church, around the ...

Prayer and song is one way to get into the spirit of East Sunday -- ESPECIALLY song, many would say. Our Cover Story is from is from Tracy Smith: If angels somehow descended on Midtown Manhattan, it ...

Fanny J. Crosby was a blind hymn writer who inspired generations through her deep faith and powerful lyrics. Despite losing her sight shortly after birth, she wrote over 8,000 hymns that touched ...

More than five decades ago, the spiritual awakening known as the “Jesus Movement” swept through the U.S., bringing hippie culture into evangelical Christian churches and impacting the sound and feel ...

Choose your all-time number one from the 100 hymns and worship songs that have been most featured on Songs of Praise over the last 5 years. Hymn: Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven — School Choir of ...

Not long ago a radio speaker declared that a good Bible hour is better than a dozen sermons. One may be justified in saying also that a good evangelical hymn is better than much of the preaching one ...

Legendary composer Irving Berlin wrote his iconic God Bless America for a musical revue while in the Army during World War I, but he shelved it. One hundred years later, it turns out his patriotic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica ...