God’s Own Child, I Gladly Say It
Today (May 6) I celebrated the 29th anniversary of my baptism when my parents brought me to the font. With the water and God’s word my dad baptized me in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and marked me with the cross upon my forehead and [...]
“There’s Just Too Many Hymn Stanzas”
How many times have you heard this: There’s just too many hymn stanzas? Or for that matter, how many times have you thought this on a Sunday morning?
I remember as a teenager reading TLH #315. (While I haven’t been at a congregation that uses The Lutheran Hymnal for a few years now, [...]
Singing Advice from Luther
I have just started reading Luther’s Liturgical Music by Robin Leaver. While I’ve only finished the second chapter, I sense this will be a very in depth but readable study of Luther and music. Chapter Two focused on how music was a central part of Luther’s life from a very young age until [...]
Difficult Hymns That Are Not Difficult
As I was reading the Blessings of Weekly Communion today, I had a flashback to the Organist Workshop I attended last summer at Concordia Theological Seminary. One of the sessions we had with Kantor Resch was on the hymnody of Luther. During that hour we discussed a number of Luther’s hymns and ranked the relative [...]
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