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This month, we’ve had the opportunity to look a bit closer at the hymn, How Firm a Foundation. I don’t exactly remember when I heard this hymn for the first time, but I do recall being attracted to its simple musical style that truly evoked the 19th century American folk hymn tradition. From its humble…

“The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was given the challenge of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, one of the most earthquake-prone cities in the world. Wright’s investigation showed that a solid foundation could be “floated” on a sixty-foot layer of soft mud underlying the hotel, which would provide a shock-absorbing but solid support for…

The average time spent listening weekly is 16 hours and 14 minutes, a significant increase from 2020’s 15 hours and 12 minutes, according to Trinity Audio. That’s a lot of hours! But considering the kind of technology we have in our hands today, listening is an activity we pair up with most of the routines we…

This song is very simple in it’s lyrics and arrangement, and that is what makes it so beautiful. Add the history of where the song came from, and it becomes more beautiful. Singing a simple song by those who were horribly oppressed is a great reminder of our own slavery to sin, and how the…

For this edition of Singer’s Notes, we are interviewing Zernan Diaz or Enan, as he is fondly called. Watch his rendition of Mark Hayes’ arrangement of this soulful hymn, and then join us as Enan shares his thoughts about music and worship. Hi Enan, thanks so much for collaborating with us on this hymn project!…

Back in 1981, several hymn societies gathered together in St. Catherine’s College in Oxford for their annual meeting. The chairmen of these societies were asked to “choose hymns that reflected the congregational song of their region of the world.” Carlton Young, then President of the American Society, chose four hymns to represent the diversity of…

In this African  American spiritual, the writer plaintively alludes to the balm in Gilead as the ultimate cure, not for physical ailments, but that which cures the soul, the sin-sick soul. What really is the balm in Gilead and does it really exist? Where is Gilead? Gilead first appears in the Scriptures as a landmark…

Long before John F. Kennedy became the US president, he served as a PT-Boat Commander in the Pacific in the Second World War. A fateful story is written in many history books about the time when Kennedy’s PT-109 torpedo boat was rammed by the Japanese first-line Fubuki-class destroyer, Amagiri on August 2, 1943 close to…

In a recent statement describing Horatius Bonar, this sums up the significance of his literary endeavors — “clearly one of the most valued evangelical writers of the 19th century and he has to be bracketed with J.C. Ryle and C.H. Spurgeon in his understanding of the power of the press and inputting it to extensive…

In this episode, we’ll learn how music ministry and evangelism works in today’s lens inspite of a worldwide pandemic. Dr. Heidi Cerna, a Music Educator at Central Philippine Adventist College, will share with us how music ministry and evangelism can be used in this COVID-19 crisis. She will also share her experience how she was…

A very important part of the Seventh-day Adventist liturgy is the emphasis on the soon return of Christ. A second advent hymn is usually sung at the end of every Divine Worship service to leave a lasting impression on the church member’s mind as they go and face the new week. The SDA hymnody is…

‘We Have This Hope’ is probably one of the most famous Adventist hymn that is still sung today. In almost every Adventist Church in the world, this hymn still remains to be the final congregational song that is sung after the preacher says the benediction for the Divine Hour Worship.  Succinctly reflecting the Adventist belief…