Songs we Sang In Church

These are not antiques. They are mile markers.

SONGS WE SANG IN CHURCH is a true hymnal now — deep red, gold on the cover, numbered the way we grew up calling them out in the pew. Eleven old hymns of the church, written between 1758 and 1913 and belonging to everybody now: Amazing Grace. Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Rock of Ages. Just As I Am. What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Blessed Assurance — my senior class song. It Is Well with My Soul. Standing on the Promises. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms. When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder. And new in this edition, the one so many of you asked for: The Old Rugged Cross.

Every hymn is printed the way we learned it — every verse, every chorus set apart — credited to its writer, and followed by the true story behind it. Because these songs were not written in comfort. They were written out of shipwrecks and sickrooms and grief, by people who needed God in a hard season and found Him faithful. Knowing where a song came from changes how you sing it.

Then the book turns the page to today: four brand-new songs of mine, written in the old spirit — "He Brought Me Out of the Flames," my testimony in song; "Peace, Be Still in Me"; "The Cycle Ends Here"; and "Nobody Stands Outside," the anthem of this whole library.

It comes with a listening edition too — the songs read aloud, for the days you'd rather listen than read.

Sing the old ones the way you learned them. Sing the new ones until they feel like old ones. Teach one to a grandchild. That is how every song in this book got to us — somebody bothered to teach it.

This is my story. This is my song.

— Violet Monica

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