Music Selections:

Standing on the Promises

“Standing on the Promises”

Chip Houston sings while Dave Caudill plays the organ. “Standing on the Promises” Composer: R. Kelso Carter (1848-1928) Setting: Dave Caudill “Thus he has given us, through these things, his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may escape from the corruption that is in the world…

Chorale Vorspiel

Chorale Vorspiel

David Caudill plays the Wicks Pipe Organ at First Presbyterian Church in Memphis Tennessee. Choral Vorspiel translation: choral prelude “Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier” “Dearest Jesus, we are here” A prayer for illumination based on a Lutheran hymn tune composed by Johann Rudolf Ahle (1664).

Great is Thy Faithfulness

“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”

Chip Houston sings while Dave Caudill plays the organ. “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” FAITHFULNESS ~ Hymn, 39 TEXT: Thomas O Chisholm (1866-1960) MUSIC: William M. Runyan (1870-1957) Written as a meditation on Lamentations 3:22-23, this text is one of the few hymns among the 1,200 poems by this Methodist writer and pastor that has gained much currency.

Forty Days and Forty Nights

“Forty Days and Forty Nights”

Jan Bullard (Soprano) sings while Dave Caudill plays the organ. “Forty Days and Forty Nights” AUS DER TIEFE RUFE ICH HYMN, 167 ~ Vs., 1, 2, 5 TEXT: George Hunt Smyttan (1822-1870) MUSIC: Attr. Martin Herbst (1654-1681); harm.

Be Still My Soul

“Be Still, My Soul”

Chip Houston sings while Dave Caudill plays the Organ. “Be Still, My Soul” TEXT: Katharina von Schlegel (1697-1752) trans. Jane Laurie Borthwick (1813-1897) MUSIC: Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) “Be still, and know that I am God! I am exalted among the nations, I am exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10