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Frontispiece from one of Wesley works, Collection of Hymns, for the Use of the People Called Methodists This is a list of works by John Wesley, a Christian cleric, theologian and evangelist, who founded the Methodist movement.
John Wesley (/ ˈ w ɛ s l i / WESS-lee; [1] 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a principal leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to ...
Christian rock band Jars of Clay recorded the hymn, slightly altering Wesley's lyrics, as "God Will Lift Up Your Head", released on its album Redemption Songs. [6] The song is the first of two radio singles in promotion of the album which hit number one on the Christian CHR radio charts in 2005.
Diarmaid MacCulloch suggests that the hymn is one of the best-loved of Wesley's six thousand hymns. [5] "And Can It Be?" was the source for Phillips, Craig & Dean's 2003 Contemporary Christian song "You Are My King (Amazing Love)". The Newsboys' cover of the song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Christian songs chart. [6] [7]
Charles Welsey's brother, John Wesley excluded it from the Wesleyan Methodist Church's Wesleyan Hymn Book, [3] which John did to preclude the inclusion of any specific seasonal hymns. It was not until 1831, when the Supplement to the Collection was published by an unknown Methodist, that "Christ the Lord is Risen Today" made it into the hymnals ...
"A Charge to Keep I Have" is a hymn written by Charles Wesley. It was first published in 1762 in Wesley's Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures. The words are based on Leviticus 8:35. It is most commonly sung to the hymn tune Boylston by Lowell Mason.
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
Wrestling Jacob", also known by its incipit, "Come, O thou Traveller unknown", is a Christian hymn written by Methodist hymn writer Charles Wesley. It is based on the biblical account of Jacob wrestling with an angel, from Genesis 32:24-32, with Wesley interpreting this as an analogy for Christian conversion. First published in 1742, it has ...