When you leave church humming a hymn, you are humming a sermon because hymns are overflowing with Christ. The purpose of singing them is to praise God by proclaiming the saving work of His Son.
Praise & Honor: Hymn-Inspired Devotions draws out Christ's riches from 14 beloved hymns. Parishioners, pastors, and musicians alike will enjoy the depth of personal stories that the author, Rev. Timothy J. Shoup, uses and the hundreds of Bible passages he draws from to amplify the rich meaning of the texts. Each hymn is introduced with a short reading, followed by a devotional for each stanza. Of the hymns chosen, most are familiar, a few are newer, but they all enrich your faith and bring you closer to the Lord of life.
Hymns Included:
- God's Own Child, I Gladly Say It (LSB 594)
- Let Us Ever Walk with Jesus (LSB 685)
- Jesus Has Come and Brings Pleasure Eternal (LSB 533)
- Gracious Savior, Grant Your Blessing (LSB 860)
- Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me (LSB 761)
- Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (LSB 621)
- O Christ, Who Shared Our Mortal Life (LSB 552)
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel (LSB 357)
- Where Shepherds Lately Knelt (LSB 369)
- Give Ear, O Zion, to God's Call (A Stephen Starke original)
- Stricken, Smitten, and Afflicted (LSB 451)
- If Christ Had Not Been Raised from Death (LSB 486)
- The Lord's My Shepherd, I'll Not Want (LSB 710)
- We Praise You and Acknowledge You, O God (LSB 941)
