Good Friday, April 10 | by Bob & Joyce Byrd (Robert Lowry, 1874 – CGH #207) Credited as the composer of more than 500 hymn tunes and the words for a number of them, Robert Lowry considered preaching his primary calling and hymn writing as more an aside. In...
Maundy Thursday, April 9 | by John Wilkinson (Ragan Courtney, 1972 – CGH #462) “He took some bread and gave thanks to God for it. Then he broke it in pieces and gave it to the disciples, saying, ‘This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of...
Wednesday, April 8 | by Gwenn Fitzpatrick (Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, 2001 – CGH #569) “What heights of love, what depths of peace when fears are stilled, when strivings cease.” Striving is a word that we don’t use much anymore; though, if we’re...
Tuesday, April 7 | by Sandy Fields (Charles Wesley, 1739 – CGH #605) Listening to my first Easter cantata as a 28-year-old recently converted Christian, Charles Wesley’s hymn, And Can It Be, spoke everything I was feeling. “Amazing love! How can it be that Thou,...
Monday, April 6 | By Jason Cox (Stuart Townend, 1995 – CGH #178) There is something special about a Father’s love. When I think of my father, I think of his patience sitting at the kitchen table for hours trying his best to explain to me, a hard-headed ninth...
Palm Sunday, April 5 | By Sam Sanders (Theodulph of Orleans, 820 / Trans. John Mason Neale, 1854 – CGH #175 ) Palm Sunday, one week before Easter, celebrates the wonderful time of Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Jesus’ followers were expecting the...
