Steve Green's MIDI Hymnal: A Complete Toolkit for Personal Devotions and Corporate Worship

This is an inspiring collection of the stories behind your favorite hymns. The exciting events that motivated these hymns are brought to life in inspiring detail. Some of the well-known hymns included are: "A Mighty Fortress," "Fairest Lord Jesus," "How Great Thou Art," "Jesus Loves Me," "Silent Night," and "Amazing Grace."

Add a whole new dimension to your quiet moments with God! Each of the one-page "stories behind the hymns" in this uplifting devotional includes a portion of that hymn, a suggested Scripture reading, a meditation, and a practical application.

The Spiritual Lives of Great Composers will lead you on a brisk walk through the innermost thoughts of twelve masters of western music. Patrick Kavanaugh's extensive research and lively writing draws fascinating new portraits of Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Dvorak, Ives, and Stravinsky. His recommended listening choices will bring hours of pleasure, and greater appreciation. Today, when we are enjoying an important revival of interest in the classical music of our culture, it is important that we also gain a true understanding of the spirituality that illuminated many of our most brilliant masterworks.

From the preface: "The following Hymns, reprinted from the Sketches of the 'Friends of God,' of 'The Quiet in the Land,' and from the collection, now out of print, called 'Service of Song,' are sent forth in a separate form, in answer to the requests of many who are unacquainted with the language of the German authors, Gerhardt Ter Steegen and Heinrich Suso."

Pick up almost any modern hymnal, look in the index listing of the compsers of teh hymns, and the name "Watts, Isaac" has a long list of hymns beside it. In his long life, Watts wrote over 600 hymns, and many of them continue to be used by English-speaking Christians to worship and praise the same Saviour Watts loved and served.