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Another great resource!
The vision of the New Old Hymns project is to help connect worship leaders, pastors, songwriters, and worshippers who are passionate about preserving and revitalizing hymns for today’s church. Today we are thrilled to introduce Zac Hicks.
Testimonies
Jacob Eckeberger and Bob Wiegers each share their personal accounts of how hymns have affected their spiritual lives.
“Why Write Hymns?”
Essay On “In Feast Or Fallow”
by Sandra McCracken
Anytime I make a record, it’s followed by a painting period. It’s good crop rotation. I keep the creative juices going by switching from one to the other, so that when the music or the writing dries up, I paint. You rest the ear awhile, and you rest the inner mind, because poetry takes a lot of plumbing the inner depths. I mean, the way I write anyway, it takes a lot of meditation. Without the painting to clear the head, I don’t think I could do it. —Joni Mitchell
Why Young People Are Returning To Old Hymn Texts
by Kevin Twit
Not too long ago I saw a sign in an antique store: “My grandmother saved it, my mother threw it away, and now I’m buying it back!” That little sign captures the story of church music in the last fifty years. In my work as a pastor with college students, I have been taking note of what feels like the beginning of a movement.
What Makes A Good Hymn?
By James Montgomery (Moravian Poet and author of “Angels From The Realms Of Glory”)
A hymn ought to be as regular in its structure as any other poem; it should have a distinct subject, and that subject should be simple, not complicated, so that whatever skill or labor might be required in the author to develop his plan, there should be little or none required on the part of the reader to understand it.
