favorite hymns.

so, music favorites #2. here are my favorite hymns. i love beautiful, old hymns. there is no writing that expresses the depth of the Gospel and and allows believers to express gratitude and awe of how amazing God is, like the old hymns from writers such as william cowper, john newton, and isaac watts. today there are many modern renditions of these hymns thanks to indelible grace, red mountain church, and various Christian artists. here are just a few of my favorites...

"When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" - Isaac Watts

Were the whole realm of nature mine,

That were a present far too small:

Love so amazing, so divine,

Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Kathryn Scott version

"Be Still My Soul" - Katharina A. von Schlegal

Be still, my soul:

the waves and winds

still know His voice

Who ruled them

while He dwelt below.

Ginny Owens version

"For the Beauty of the Earth" - Folliott Pierpoint

For the beauty of the earth,

For the glory of the skies,

For the love which from our birth

Over and around us lies.

Lord of all to Thee we raise

This our hymn of grateful praise.

from Little Women

"I Asked the Lord" - John Newton

These inward trials I employ

From self and pride to set thee free

And break thy schemes of earthly joy

That thou mayest seek thy all in me,

That thou mayest seek thy all in me.

Indelible Grace version

"In the Hours" - Helen L. Parmlee

Thou the hated and forsaken,

Thou the bearer of the cross

Crowned of thorns and mocked and smitten,

Counting earthly gain but loss

When scorned are we,

We joy to be the more like Thee

Indelible Grace version

"Not What My Hands Have Done" - Horatius Bonar

I bless the Christ of God;

I rest on love divine;

And with unfaltering lip and heart,

I call this Savior mine.

Indelible Grace version

"Holy, Holy, Holy" - Reginald Heber

Only Thou art holy;

there is none beside Thee,

Perfect in power, in love, and purity.

Sufjan Stevens version