30 Days of Hymns – this was my September personal challenge to do something consistently over a 30-day time period.
To practice this skill, I chose to tailor my social media posts on Facebook to map with our church’s small group exploration of the book, “Sing!: How Worship Transforms Your Life, Family, and Church” by Keith & Kristen Getty. We are looking at what makes singing as a group so powerful – and necessary.
Below are the songs. I need to say a big “thank you!” for the help from friends on Facebook who shared their favorites. It was poignant to read the comments on all the hymns. And fun to know that most people, as they read the lyrics, were actually singing them in their own mind. See – it doesn’t matter whether you have a “good” voice – your heart knows how to praise through music!
With this in mind, if you don’t know the listed hymn, I encourage you to use YouTube to find a video. And if you find reading the Bible intimidating, reading hymn lyrics is an easy way to orient yourself toward God’s Word, as most hymns have direct Scripture references.
Hymns are inherently positive!
Many in this list of 30 are old, old songs – and a few are from the songstress Fanny Crosby. Below the list, you’ll find images to correspond. Feel free to use them for your own, if one is a favorite. (I used CanvaPro to create each image.)
Want some ideas to challenge yourself next month? Read 31 ideas/options: click HERE.
(PS – I’ve begun a new personal challenge to send 31 snail mail cards to connect with others. This corresponds to #15 on the list!)
Here’s the list of 30 hymns:
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- Just as God Leads Me
- In the Garden
- The Lord is my Light
- It is well with my soul
- Soul Arise, I must be telling
- Striving Onward, Pressing Forward
- Come Share the Lord
- I Praise God’s Love in Adoration
- Never Give Up
- How Great Thou Art
- Blessed Assurance
- As the Deer
- Mighty the Showers of Blessing
- Instruments of Your Peace
- Star to Which I’m Looking
- We will keep our faith alive
- In moments like these
- Be Thou My Vision
- Jesus Loves me
- Here I am Lord
- Forth, Forth My Heart to Heaven
- Behold Oh How Pleasant
- More Precious Than Silver
- In Over My Head – Bethel / Jenn Johnson
- Our God is an Awesome God
- Sanctuary
- Our hearts sing with joy
- Oh, Sanctified Sunday
- At the Living Altar
And the images:
This is such a good idea! I absolutely love hymns!
Thanks so much, Erin, for stopping in!