In 1983, Esther Burroughs penned some lyrics about keeping a Christian home and entered them in a Southern Baptist hymn-writing contest. Some time later, her husband, Bob — who had made a name for ...

A hardcover copy of Baptist Standard Hymnal with Responsive Readings edited by Willa Ann Hadley Townsend. The hardcover clothbound book is green with orange-peach page edges, and gold leaf text and ...

Worship leaders convince curriculum company of the value of lifewayworship.com. In July 2023, the company announced its plan to retire the platform—a “digital hymnal” that provides users with chord ...

“Lining out” is the practice of singing or stating the upcoming lines of a hymn for the congregation by a song leader or preacher. Typically, the words are stated quickly, and then sung in a drawn-out ...

It's about time for the Southern Baptist Convention to put out a new hymnal, and the move to update the songs has caused a little tension. A glut of new worship songs has led to sweeping changes in ...

Committee members had found a version of the hymn with the alternate text in the Celebrating Grace Hymnal, a Baptist hymnal published in 2010. They assumed the songwriters already had agreed to the ...