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I was researching the hymn and it turns out that the guy who wrote it, Anthony Showalter, was a school teacher and he had received letters from his former students saying that their wives had died, and in writing letters of consolation, Showalter was inspired by the phrase in Deuteronomy 33:27, "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are ...
According to the official Jesus Christ Superstar website, in the song: . Caiaphas and the Priests discuss the problems caused by the mob following Jesus. They don't understand how he has managed to inspire people and believe that Jesus poses a very serious threat to their authority and the fragile relationship they have with the occupying force from Rome.
A list of all songs with lyrics about Jesus Christ, where he is specifically the central subject.This category contains both songs referring to specific moments of Jesus's life (birth, preaching, crucifixion) and songs of blessing, rejoicing or mourning where he is portrayed as a religious deity or examined as a cultural figure.
"Glory to His Name" (also called "Down At The Cross") is a hymn written by Elisha A. Hoffman in 1878. It is thought that Hoffman was reading about the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible and began to think about how God saved men from their sins by allowing Jesus to die on the cross.
He died in 1993 after apparently choking on a sandwich. [5] The band came back into the spotlight in 2008 when a recording of them performing their song "Jesus Is a Friend of mine", from a religious TV-show called The First Estate, appeared on the Dougsploitation blog, and subsequently became a YouTube hit, [1] [6] [7] where it spawned several ...
Vintage footage of Marsha Stevens and Children of the Day performing "For Those Tears I Died" on the Kathryn Kuhlman television program, c. 1971 Video on YouTube; Christian Century Magazine, March 17, 1999 by Mark Allan Powell; Marsha's tears: An orphan of the church; Children of the Day History; Marsha Stevens-Pino profile on lgbtran.org
The song narrates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, detailing how he was nailed to the cross, "whooped up the hill", speared in the side, and hung his head and died, all the while keeping a dignified silence. Like all traditional music, the lyrics vary from version to version, but maintain the same story.
The video tells the story of an artist struggling with self-doubt, painting and repainting his canvas, before creating a giant painting of a face featuring the words 'I am enough'. The story is intercut with scenes of Goodrem, Gizzle, a full band and a choir performing the song in a church.