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The Hymns Shelf - Hymnals, the Stories Behind the Songs, and Singing at Home Again
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items Before there were playlists there were hymnals, and the old songs still carry what the new ones are reaching for. This shelf is for bringing them home: a real hymnal, the stories behind the great hymns, and the music for singing them around your own ...
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The Hymnals
The Stories Behind the Hymns
Singing at Home
Hymns for the Young Ones
The Hymnals
A hymnal on the piano and one by the chair - the book a singing household runs on.
A hardcover Baptist Hymnal is the backbone book - hundreds of the great hymns with the harmonies your grandparents sang. Keep one where the singing happens.
Baptist Hymnal Word Edition: Revised, (Hardcover)
The Celebration Hymnal gathers the classics across traditions in one sturdy volume - the other great shelf hymnal, and the one many churches keep in the pew.
Pre-Owned Celebration Hymnal: Songs and Hymns for Worship (Hardcover) 3010142366 9783010142366
A hymnal companion tells who wrote each hymn, when, and out of what sorrow or joy - it turns singing into knowing. Read one entry before you sing the hymn and feel the difference.
Pre-Owned Handbook to the Baptist Hymnal 556011 (Hardcover) 0767321634 9780767321631
The Stories Behind the Hymns
Devotional reading from the hymn shelf: what these songs cost the people who wrote them.
Then Sings My Soul tells the stories behind 150 hymns, each story with the music - the bedside book of this whole shelf. It has started more family singing than any book here.
Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories, (Paperback)
Book 2 carries 150 more hymn stories in the same short-story form - Christmas hymns, gospel songs, and the ones your church sings twice a year. The pair belongs together.
Then Sings My Soul Then Sings My Soul: 150 of the World's Greatest Hymn Stories, Book 02, (Paperback)
Amazing Grace gets a book of its own on this shelf - John Newton's story is the hymn's best commentary. Read it once and you will never rush the third verse again.
Amazing Grace: The Life of John Newton and the Surprising Story Behind His Song, (Paperback)
A hymns-for-the-family devotional pairs one hymn a day with a short reading - singing and study in ten minutes at the breakfast table. It is how children learn the old songs without a lesson feeling like one.
The One Year Book of Hymns : 365 Devotions Based on Popular Hymns (Paperback)
Singing at Home
The music itself: piano arrangements, classic recordings, and the words on the wall.
An easy piano hymns book puts the great songs within reach of the family's actual pianist - playable arrangements, full harmonies, no page-turn traps. This is the book that gets the piano opened again.
Easy Piano (Hal Leonard) The Easy Piano Hymn Collection 50 Classic Hymns for Worship and Church Easy Piano Sheet Music Songbook for Beginners and, (Paperback)
Alan Jackson's Precious Memories is the hymns album even non-country houses keep - sung plain, the way church sounded. It plays at more family dinners than any record here.
Alan Jackson - Precious Memories - Music & Performance - CD
A classic hymns CD collection fills the house while hands are busy - dishes, driving, Sunday dinner prep. The old songs carry a room without anyone pressing anything.
Mike Curb - 60 Classic Hymns: 60th Anniversary Tribute To Billy Graham - Music & Performance - CD
Amazing Grace framed for the wall - the most loved words in the hymnbook, where the family reads them daily. Choose classic lettering and the full first verse.
Religious Art, Grace Hymn Framed Wall Decor for the Home
Hymns for the Young Ones
The old songs, handed down on purpose.
A hymns-for-kids recording teaches children the real hymns early - their verses stick for life when they are learned at five. Car rides are the classroom.
Cedarmont Kids - Classics: Hymns - Music & Performance - CD
A kids' hymn songbook with big print and simple arrangements lets children follow along and sing from their own book. Owning the book makes them singers, not audience.
The Kids Hymnal : 80 Songs and Hymns (Hardcover)
A Christmas carols songbook keeps December singing from memory instead of phones - the carols are hymns too, and the family that sings them together keeps them. One copy per singer is the goal by next Christmas.
The Christmas Caroling Songbook - 2nd Edition 80 Classic Holiday Carols with Lyrics, Chords and Melody Easy Christmas Si, (Paperback)