Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
"Hymns are prayers in our pockets", writes Pam Rhodes, expressing how hymns help us to respond to God.
Pam brings together reflections on some of her favourite hymns. Drawing on her experience of presenting Songs of Praise and sharing the stories of hymn writers past and present, she helps us to make use of their words in expressing our joys and sorrows to God, and finding hope and inspiration in them.
Whatever our circumstances, these hymns turn us again to the God who created, knows and sustains us with that "love so amazing" described in the immortal words of hymn writer Isaac Watts.
Pam Rhodes has presented the BBC's Songs of Praise for many years. She has written numerous novels, including With Hearts and Hymns and Voices, Fisher of Men, and Casting the Net.
Introduction 7
God Be with You Till We Meet Again 11
Just as I Am 15
What a Friend We Have in Jesus 18
Saved by Grace 21
Great is Thy Faithfulness 25
And Can It Be 29
For All the Saints 33
There is a Green Hill Far Away 36
In Christ Alone 40
It is Well with My Soul 44
Make Me a Channel of Your Peace 48
For the Beauty of the Earth 51
Nearer, My God, to Thee 54
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go 58
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus 61
Forgive Our Sins 65
Count Your Blessings 69
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind 72
Jesus Bids Us Shine 76
Amazing Grace 79
God Moves in a Mysterious Way 83
Take My Life and Let it Be 87
Eternal Father 91
Be Thou My Vision 95
Tell Me the Old, Old Story 98
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing 102
Glad That I Live Am I 106
The Servant Song 110
O Perfect Love 114
Now Thank We All Our God 117
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say 121
Abide with Me 124
Father, Hear the Prayer We Offer 128
A Mighty Fortress is Our God 132
Fight the Good Fight 136
Be Still, for the Presence of the Lord 140
How Great Thou Art 144
Blest Be the Tie That Binds 148
To God Be the Glory 152
When I Survey 156
Acknowledgments 160