Why it's a good choice: This wonderful text is ideally suited for a baptism, with its focus on our hope on God and all the wonders that he offers us. The words of this hymn were written around ...

Sister Constance Veit points out that the holy year the church is celebrating calls everyone to sing in a choir of hope, which we experience by visiting the sick and the elderly.

The hymn first appeared in Newton ... belief in the trustworthiness of the Word of God — “The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures.” — a sentiment that has fallen ...

Why it's a good choice: One of the most sung hymns at funerals, this is really a prayer to God to stay with him in death as He did with us in life. Henry Francis Lyte, Vicar of Brixham in Devon ...

The hymn first appeared in Newton ... belief in the trustworthiness of the Word of God — “The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures.” — a sentiment that has fallen ...