Music used in Worship of Great Consequence

“Text and music should match each other well. If the text is trite and meaningless, it has no place in worship. Yet at times profound texts are wed to music with inferior structure or harmony, so that, as Leonard Payton put it, ‘the aesthetic form communicates fun and good times to most people rather than the [...]

Blessing, Honor, Glory, Power

Words: Ho­ra­ti­us Bo­nar, 1866.
Blessing and honor and glory and power,
Wisdom and riches and strength evermore
Give ye to Him Who our battle hath won
Whose are the kingdom, the crown, and the throne.
Into the heav’n of the heav’ns hath He gone,
Sitteth He now in the joy of the throne,
Weareth He now of the kingdom the crown,
Singeth He [...]

I Once was Blind, But Now I See