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                    OCCUPATIONAL HYMNS
~ Astronaut: "Nearer My God, To Thee"
~ Baker: "I Need Thee Every Hour"
~ Barber: "A Parting Hymn We Sing"
~ Baseball Batter: "Seek Thee First"
~ Builder: "How Firm A Foundation" and "The Church’s One Foundation"
~ Canoeist: "Flow, River, Flow"
~ Carpenter: "The Nail Scarred
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 11, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE UNPUBLISHED HYMN
The hymn writer Fanny Crosby gave us more than 6,000 gospel songs. Although blinded by an illness at the age of six weeks, she never became bitter. One time a preacher sympathetically remarked, "I think it is great pity that the Master did not give you sight when He showered
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 4, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Hymns Of The Laodicean Church
(God’s Frozen People)
The Laodicean Church announces publication of "Church Songs," whose title, according to the editor, was chosen because "We didn’t want to turn anybody off with threatening words that no one understands anymore like ’worship’ or ’hymn.’ People in
                    
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                    Church feuds are not uncommon, especially among cliques in the congregation. But when the pastor and choir director get into it, stand aside. One week, the preacher preached on commitment, and how you should dedicate yourselves to service. The director then led the choir in singing, 'I Shall
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jul 10, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PICK OUT THREE HYMNS
I heard about this pastor. He was raising money for a new sanctuary. He told his congregation one Sunday morning "If anybody will give $1000, you can pick out three hymns."
A little old lady in the back raised up her hand and said "Pastor, I’ll do it." He was so excited. He
                    
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                    Contributed by John Putty on Apr 14, 2011
                
                
                
                    In The Gospel in Hymns, published in 1950, is a story about Philip Brooks, author of “O Little Town of Bethlehem”:  
One April fools day, Brooks saw a boy on Boylston Street in Boston trying to reach a doorbell.  Brooks walked up the steps and said, "Let me help you, my little
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on May 12, 2003
                
                
                
                    Bernard of Clairvaux wrote the hymn “Jesus the Very Thought of Thee”
Jesus, the very thought of Thee
With sweetness fills the breast;
But sweeter far Thy face to see,
And in Thy presence rest.
Nor voice can sing, nor heart can frame,
                    
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                    Contributed by Mike Wilkins on Apr 20, 2005
                
                
                
                    a Hymn from the Catholic Liturgy of the Hours
Spirit of God, on the waste and the darkness
Hov’ring in power as creation began,
Drawing forth beauty from clay and from chaos
Breathing God’s life in the nostrils of man,
Come and sow life in the waste of our being,
Pray in us, form us as sons
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 30, 2006
                
                
                
                    There’s a verse of a hymn with this line: ’The Lord hath yet more light and truth to break forth from His Word.’ (George Rawson).  They are based on the words of Pastor John Robinson as the Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth in 1620, leaving their homeland for an unknown future.  Like them, we
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Jul 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    One of the greatest evangelistic hymns of all time was written by a woman who knew well the release and peace that come from confessing one’s sins and failures to God.
 
“Just As I Am,” a hymn frequently sung at the close of evangelistic meetings, was written by Charlotte Elliott of Clapham,
                    
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                    Contributed by Eric Peloquin on Jun 7, 2005
                
                
                
                    Robert Robinson, author of the hymn “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” lost the happy communion with the Savior he had once enjoyed, and in his declining years he wandered into the by-ways of sin. As a result, he became deeply troubled in spirit. Hoping to relieve his mind, he decided to
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Mar 30, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    John Newton, the writer of the most popular hymn in history, "Amazing Grace" said:
"… if two angels in heaven were given assignments by God at the same time, one of them to go and rule over the greatest nation on earth and the other to go sweep the streets of the dirtiest village, each angel would
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Oct 3, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    John M. Moore, the hymn writer captured this truth when he wrote…
Why did they nail Him to Calvary’s tree?
Why, tell me, why was He there?
Jesus the Helper, the Healer, the Friend—
Why, tell me, why was He there?
Then the songwriter answers the rhetorical question by saying…
All my iniquities on
                    
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                    Isaac Watts penned a beautiful hymn based on the parable of the feast in Luke 14:
HOW SWEET AND AWFUL IS THE PLACE   WITH CHRIST WITHIN THE DOORS, 
WHILE EVERLASTING LOVE DISPLAYS THE CHOICEST OF HER STORES. 
WHILE ALL OUR HEARTS AND ALL OUR SONGS  JOIN TO ADMIRE THE FEAST, 
EACH OF US CRY, WITH
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Miller on Dec 13, 2005
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Here are words to a hymn from the tune of ’O Little Town of Bethlehem.’ It was sung after a Narnia message titled, "What If There Were No Christmas?"
O Wintry Land of Narnia
O wintry land of Narnia what mysteries do you hold?
Despite the threats of the white witch, Good News is to unfold!
‘Cause
                    
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