num_pages: 157
description: Following the injunction of St. Paul in Ephesians 5:18-19, “Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourselves in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs,” Christians have used metrical versions of the Old Testament Psalms, as well as their own original hymns (sacred poems addressed to or descriptive of one of the Persons of the Holy Trinity) and spiritual songs (sacred poems descriptive of one’s own individual Christian experience) as worthy instruments for the praise of God. The stories included in this volume should convince the reader that God was just as much at work in the hearts and minds of those consecrated men and women who wrote our finest gospel hymns and songs as He was in the experiences of those poetic giants who fashioned the stately hymns which have become a noble part of our Christian heritage.
language: English
title: Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs
titlecomplete: Forty Stories of Famous Gospel Songs
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Baker Book House