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It reached number seven during the fall of 1955 and is the most successful version of the song. The B-side of Cornell's record, "Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing," also reached the U.S. Top 40, peaking at number 26. [1] It was the theme song of the movie of the same name. His version was the second of five charting versions of the song during 1955.
Than Jesus, the Son of God. O Jesus, hope of the penitent, How gracious you are to those who ask How good to those who seek you; But what [are you] to those who find? No tongue may tell, No letter express; He who has experience of it can believe What it is to love Jesus. O Jesus, may you be our joy, You who are our future reward. May our glory ...
Jesus Paid It All (also known as Fullness in Christ and I hear the Saviour say and Christ All and in All) is a traditional American hymn about the penal substitutionary atonement for sin by the death of Jesus. The song references many Bible verses, including Romans 5 ("Jesus' sacrifice gives life") and Isaiah 1:18 ("a crimson flow"). [1]
Nichole co-wrote the song with Ethan Hulse, Jeff Pardo and David Spencer. [2] "In Jesus Name (God Of Possible)" peaked at number one on both the US Hot Christian Songs chart and on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The song was ranked by Billboard as the biggest Christian song in 2022. [3]
The song may be an allusion to both the apple tree in Song of Solomon 2:3 which has been interpreted as a metaphor representing Jesus, and to his description of his life as a tree of life in Luke 13:18–19 and elsewhere in the New Testament including Revelation 22:1–2 and within the Old Testament in Genesis.
The tune, originally a Silesian folk song, and the German text were printed together for the first time in 1842 by Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Richter under the name Schönster Herr Jesu (Most beautiful Lord Jesus). [4] [5] In 1850 the Danish hymnwriter B. S. Ingemann wrote Dejlig er jorden, which he set to the same melody. [6]
"I Have Decided to Follow Jesus" is a Christian hymn that originated in Assam, present-day Meghalaya, India. According to P. Job, the lyrics are based on the last words of Nokseng, a Garo man, a tribe from Meghalaya which then was in Assam, who converted to Christianity in the middle of the 19th century through the efforts of an American Baptist missionary.
The Hymn of Jesus was so great a success as to bewilder its composer; he quoted the Biblical verse, "Woe to you when all men speak well of you!". [17] One of the performers at the original Royal College of Music performance later remembered that "To many the work was like a trumpet call in the renaissance of English creative music. To some of ...