Lousy Hymns

[Ukulelemike]

We enjoy talking music here, how about this: list what you think are some of the worst hymns in the hymnals. Poor doctrine, weak music, even clear false teachings. We all love hymns here, but we have all come across some that are just, well, bad.

 

We can also include hymns that have had changes made that have weakened them donctrinally.

 

I will start out with this travesty:

 

Precious Memories:

 

Precious memories, unseen angels,
Sent from somewhere to my soul.
How they linger ever near me,
And the sacred past unfolds.

Precious memories how they linger,
How they ever flood my soul.
In the stillness of the midnight.
Precious sacred scenes unfold.

In the stillness of the midnight,
Echoes from the past I hear.
Old time singing, gladness ringing,
From that lovely land somewhere.

Precious memories how they linger,
How they ever flood my soul.
In the stillness of the midnight.
Precious sacred scenes unfold.

As I travel on life's pathway,
I know not what the years may hold.
As I ponder hope grows fonder,
Precious memories flood my soul.

Precious memories how they linger,
How they ever flood my soul.
In the stillness of the midnight.
Precious sacred scenes unfold.

[heartstrings]

Have a Little Talk with..........BUDDAH

 

I once was lost in sin but Jesus took me in
Well then a little light from heaven healed my soul
Well, he bathed my heart in love, and wrote my name above
Well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

We’ll just have a little talk with Jesus
Were gonna tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our fainted cry
He will answer by and by
Oh well, when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
And you will know a little fire is burnin’
You will find a little talk with Jesus makes it right

You may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well he wrote my name above, and he bathed my heart in love
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

Let us have a little talk with my Jesus
Please let us tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
He will answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know just a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right

Well you may have doubts and fears
Your eye be filled with tears
Oh well now my Jesus is a friend who watches day and night
Well you go to him in prayer
He answers my every prayer
Oh well just a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Now let us have a little talk with my Jesus
Tell him all about our troubles
He will hear our faintest cry
And I know hes gonna answer by and by
Now when you feel a little prayer wheel turning
You’ll know a little fire is burnin’
And have a little talk with my Jesus gonna make it right
Make it right

[Ukulelemike]

Of course, this one is doctrinally wrong, also, because it is not Jesus we pray to, but God the Father. So there's that, too.

[heartstrings]

The Propaganda Hymn of the Republic

 

Mine eyes have seen the glory
    of the coming of the Lord;
    he is trampling out the vintage
    where the grapes of wrath are stored;
    he hath loosed the fateful lightning
    of his terrible swift sword;
    his truth is marching on.
Refrain:
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    His truth is marching on.

2.    I have seen him in the watchfires
    of a hundred circling camps,
    they have builded him an altar
    in the evening dews and damps;
    I can read his righteous sentence
    by the dim and flaring lamps;
    his day is marching on.
    (Refrain)

3.    He has sounded forth the trumpet
    that shall never call retreat;
    he is sifting out the hearts of men
    before his judgment seat;
    O be swift, my soul, to answer him;
    be jubilant, my feet!
    Our God is marching on.
    (Refrain)

4.    In the beauty of the lilies
    Christ was born across the sea,
    with a glory in his bosom
    that transfigures you and me;
    as he died to make men holy,
    let us die to make men free,
    while God is marching on.
    (Refrain)
Mine eyes have seen the glory
    of the coming of the Lord;
    he is trampling out the vintage
    where the grapes of wrath are stored;
    he hath loosed the fateful lightning
    of his terrible swift sword;
    his truth is marching on.
Refrain:
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    His truth is marching on.

2.    I have seen him in the watchfires
    of a hundred circling camps,
    they have builded him an altar
    in the evening dews and damps;
    I can read his righteous sentence
    by the dim and flaring lamps;
    his day is marching on.
    (Refrain)

3.    He has sounded forth the trumpet
    that shall never call retreat;
    he is sifting out the hearts of men
    before his judgment seat;
    O be swift, my soul, to answer him;
    be jubilant, my feet!
    Our God is marching on.
    (Refrain)

4.    In the beauty of the lilies
    Christ was born across the sea,
    with a glory in his bosom
    that transfigures you and me;
    as he died to make men holy,
    let us die to make men free,
    while God is marching on.
    (Refrain)

5.    He is coming like the glory
    of the morning on the wave,
    he is wisdom to the mighty,
    he is honor to the brave;
    so the world shall be his footstool,
    and the soul of wrong his slave.
    Our God is marching on.
    (Refrain)
5.    He is coming like the glory
    of the morning on the wave,
    he is wisdom to the mighty,
    he is honor to the brave;
    so the world shall be his footstool,
    and the soul of wrong his slave.
    Our God is marching on.
    (Refrain)

[heartstrings]

Here's another that always bugs me for some reason....

A lighthouse, aside from not being in the Bible, is something that SHOWS the way...Jesus doesn't SHOW the way;He IS THE WAY.

 

There's a lighthouse on the hillside
That over looks life's sea
And when I'm tossed it sends out a light
That I might see
And the light that shines in darkness now
Will safely lead us o'er
If it wasn't for the Lighthouse
My ship would be no more


Everybody that lives around us
Says tear that Lighthouse down
The big ships they don't sail this way anymore
There's no use of it standing round
Then my mind goes back to that stormy night
When just in time I saw the light
Yes, the light from that old lighthouse
That stands there on the hill


And I thank God for the Lighthouse
I owe my life to Him
For Jesus is the Lighthouse
And from the rocks of sin
He has shown a light around me
That I could clearly see
If it wasn't for the Lighthouse (tell me)
Where would this ship be

[Salyan]

Of course, this one is doctrinally wrong, also, because it is not Jesus we pray to, but God the Father. So there's that, too.

 

Say what? 

[heartstrings]

I always address "Heavenly Father" or "Lord". But the very first prayer I ever prayed was when I cried out directly to "JESUS".(Jehovah saves) and I'm sure God and everyone in the church house heard it.

 

My former IFB pastor told me that we can pray directly to the Holy Ghost........ 

I haven't studied that one out yet.

[Ukulelemike]

The whole purpose of the "Lord's Prayer", as its often called, was to teach the disciples how to pray, and clearly, Jesus intended that they, thus, we, pray to the fatjer in Jesus' name. Yes, we go to Jesus for salvation, but otherwise, we go through Jesus to the Father. Jesus even said, in John 16:23-27, "And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God."

 

Clearly Jesus inteded that we pray to the Father in His name, not to Jesus directly, nor to the Holy Spirit. Every example in scripture, New Testament, it is to the Father prayer is directed, not to Jesus. And not to the Holy Ghost. As far as I recall. Not in a position to check it right now.

[Covenanter]

I think it's foolish & unprofitable to look for unscriptural hymns - except to query those in common use, or that we have been asked to sing.

 

I had to reject this one by Getty/Townend because of the inclusion of concepts from the RC Mass. I doubt if the inclusion was deliberate on their part. We have RCs in the congregation you would likely have understood it in the RC sense.

 

Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away,
Slain for us: and we remember:
The promise made that all who come in faith
Find forgiveness at the cross.
So we share in this Bread of life,
And we drink of His sacrifice,
As a sign of our bonds of peace
Around the table of the King.

 

- See more at: http://www.stuarttow...h.PQeFWZzA.dpuf

 

Email to Pastor:

 

Ann & I have looked carefully at "Behold the Lamb" & consider that we should not sing it as being too close to the RC mass.
 

The opening line is John's testimony to Jesus (John 1) but is used by the priest when he lifts up the transubstantiated bread & declares "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." The wine is NOT a sacrifice so we cannot sing: "we drink of his sacrifice." As good Protestants, we might be able to explain the hymn to our own satisfaction, but we have RCs in our congregation.

 

 

 

[Ukulelemike]

I think it's foolish & unprofitable to look for unscriptural hymns - except to query those in common use, or that we have been asked to sing.

 

I had to reject this one by Getty/Townend because of the inclusion of concepts from the RC Mass. I doubt if the inclusion was deliberate on their part. We have RCs in the congregation you would likely have understood it in the RC sense.

 

Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away,
Slain for us: and we remember:
The promise made that all who come in faith
Find forgiveness at the cross.
So we share in this Bread of life,
And we drink of His sacrifice,
As a sign of our bonds of peace
Around the table of the King.

 

- See more at: http://www.stuarttow...h.PQeFWZzA.dpuf

My point is to encourage us to look at our own practices as Christians. We get on the unscriptural CCM folks, while we tend to have some pretty unscriptural hymns in our hymnbooks, sometimes some that we have grown up with and never considered the false doctrines in them.

 

I was inspired while listening to some hymns, and they kept playing the song I quoted in my first post-yet some consider this a wonderful hymns, even there is absolutely nothing scriptural about it. How about. The church in the wildwood"? Theres another one-it speaks of the church as the little brown building in the vale-even though the building isn't the church-yet its in IFB hymnals.

[Bro K]

If we're going to go down this road; I'll give my .

 

Lousy hymns are like Lousy sermons..... they're a dime a dozen!!!!!

[paid4]

Unlike the Bible hymns are not inspired. They are written by people so they can't be perfect. I do think that you can see the heart and thoughts of the writer. I never liked the patriotic songs in the hymnal. I think they preserve the founding of our country but I don't like them in church. I am very much a red blooded American but I do feel there will be a day when we have to choose between God and country. God wins that one every time. Besides for God so loved the WORLD and has no respect of persons.

 

How on earth did I get to this point talking about Hymns.  sorry.

[No Nicolaitans]

Of course, this one is doctrinally wrong, also, because it is not Jesus we pray to, but God the Father. So there's that, too.

 

While I agree that prayer is mainly directed to God the Father and never to the Holy Spirit, praying directly to the Lord Jesus Christ is also scriptural...

 

1 John 5:13-15

13   These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

14   And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15   And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

 

The "him", "his", and "he" in verse 14 is referring to "the Son of God" in verse 13.

 

Verse 15 says that he (the Son of God) hears us and grants our petitions that we desired of him (the Son of God).

[Ukulelemike]

 

While I agree that prayer is mainly directed to God the Father and never to the Holy Spirit, praying directly to the Lord Jesus Christ is also scriptural...

 

1 John 5:13-15

13   These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

14   And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:

15   And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.

 

The "him", "his", and "he" in verse 14 is referring to "the Son of God" in verse 13.

 

Verse 15 says that he (the Son of God) hears us and grants our petitions that we desired of him (the Son of God).

 

Hmmm...I may have to stand corrected on this. I'll read it over and let you know, but I am certainly not above being wrong.

[Invicta]

Of course, this one is doctrinally wrong, also, because it is not Jesus we pray to, but God the Father. So there's that, too.

 

Ac 7:59  And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.