Author name: sbishop

It’s a subtle refrain, the repeating of alleluias, you would think as this is a song we now sing in Eastertide as the response to the assurance of pardon in […]

As I sit with hymnals and music books around me and begin bringing up Easter memories, of my home congregation in Marysville, OH, the tune with loud trumpet response plays

Hymn 238 As you begin reading the title of this Easter hymn, have you already begun the drum beat and finished the first very popular line…Rise, conquering Son? This tune

John 21:1-14 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas

John 13:12-30 12 After he had washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, ‘Do you know what I have done

1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Now concerning food sacrificed to idols: we know that “all of us possess knowledge.” Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2Anyone who claims to know something does

Luke 11:37-44 “While he was speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine with him; so he went in and took his place at the table. The Pharisee was amazed to see

Acts 16:25-34 About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was an earthquake, so violent that the foundations

I Kings 17:8-16 Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying, ‘Go now to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and live there; for I have commanded a widow there to feed

Jeremiah 31:1; 10-14 At that time, says the Lord, I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Hear the word of the Lord,