For our family devotions, we begin by singing a hymn or two from an old hymnbook I had gotten last year from ebay. It is very old, and I bou...

Introducing, my boys....singing their favorite hymns! You see, last week, I heard Nolan singing in his bed...and I snuck up on him with my c...

by Horatius Bonar Born : De­cem­ber 19, 1808, Old Brough­ton, Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. Died : Ju­ly 31, 1889, Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. Buried ...

Born : June 18, 1830, Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land. Died : Feb­ru­a­ry 19, 1869, Bridg­end House, near Mel­rose, Rox­burgh­shire, Scot­land. Burie...

Born : Oc­to­ber 19, 1649, Gro­ben, Ger­ma­ny. Died : March 29, 1708, Ber­lin, Ger­ma­ny. Buried : Kloster Kirche, Berlin, Ger­ma­ny. Son of...

Sources differ as to the early history of the carol, although its collection is attributed to folk singer, John Jacob Niles . He claimed to ...

Born : Oc­to­ber 25, 1808, Roque­maure, France. Died : Au­gust 8, 1877, Roque­maure, France. Cappeau, who lost a hand in a fire­arms ac­ci­d...

This song was written by an unknown author, possibly in the 12th century. It was translated to English by John Neale in 1851. The original t...

(It seems like I'm always a day late on these hymns lately! Sorry!) " Joy to the World " is one of the best-known and best-lov...

Born : Ju­ly 17, 1674, South­amp­ton, Eng­land. Died : No­vem­ber 25, 1748, Stoke New­ing­ton, Eng­land. Buried : Bun­hill Fields Cem­etery,...

Born: Ju­ly 13, 1769, Kellyville, Strad­bal­ly, Queens Coun­ty, Ire­land. Died: May 14, 1855, Dub­lin, Ire­land. Buried: Near the Kel­ly fam...

Born : Ju­ly 24, 1725, Lon­don, Eng­land. Died : De­cem­ber 21, 1807, Lon­don, Eng­land. Buried : Orig­in­al­ly at St. Ma­ry Wool­noth Churc...

Born: Oc­to­ber 26, 1818, Port­land, Maine. Died: Au­gust 13, 1878, Dor­set, Ver­mont. Buried: Dor­set, Ver­mont. She wrote these words dur­...

Born : Ap­ril 21, 1783, Ma­lpas, Che­shire, Eng­land. Died : Ap­ril 3, 1826, Tri­chin­o­po­ly (Tir­u­chir­ap­pal­li), Ta­mil Na­du, In­dia, ...

Born : Ju­ly 9, 1838, Clear­field Coun­ty, Penn­syl­van­ia. Died : De­cem­ber 29, 1876, Ash­ta­bu­la, Ohio. Bliss and his wife died in a tra...

Charles Wesley wrote over 6,000 hymns. Like most hymn­ists, his works were fre­quent­ly al­tered. In the pre­face to the 1779 Col­lection of...

George Beverly Shea says that this hymn was first introduced in Great Britain in 1954 during the Billy Graham Crusades. William Runyan whore...

Born: March 24, 1820, Put­nam Coun­ty, New York. Died: Feb­ru­a­ry 12, 1915, Bridge­port, Con­nec­ti­cut. Buried: Bridge­port, Con­nec­ti­cu...

Born: March 12, 1826, Phil­a­del­phia, Penn­syl­van­ia. Died: No­vem­ber 25, 1899, Plain­field, New Jer­sey. Buried: Hill­side Cem­e­tery, P...

Ken wrote this hymn at a time when the es­tab­lished church be­lieved on­ly Script­ure should be sung as hymns—with an em­pha­sis on the Psa...