Favorite Hymns

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What are your favorite hymns? Facebook fans were asked that recently. Below is the list that was compiled form the results. Do you know these hymns? Some are new and some are old.  Can you sing them and/or hear them as you read this? Do you agree with the choices? The rankings?


Anyone who knows me knows that I probably know them all, can hear them all, and am probably singing, humming or whistling them all day. Yes! These are all a part of my story. I like a lot of them. I love some of them. And I absolutely detest one of them.  Many of you know which one that is! ;-)

But, they are all part of the story. Each one speaks to someone in a specIal way. One of them was the first one in the old hymnal and another is the first in the current one.  One was a favorite of both my mother and her mother.  One was a favorite of my other grandmother.  Two of these will always connect me to two specific pastors. One takes me to a cousin's wedding. One should be sung in Spanish.  One takes me back to my first summer camp experience-and it's not one you might suspect.  Two of them immediately transport me to that special mountaintop not too far away. 

Tell me about yours.  What hymns are your favorites?  If you know these, sing them!  If you don't know some of them, listen to them and learn them.  Find someone who knows them and share and sing them together.  Some you may like.  Some you may not.

Keep singing!

Top 20 Favorite Hymns (Actually it is 22 with the two ties listed!)


1. Here I Am, Lord
2. How Great Thou Art
3. Amazing Grace
4. Hymn of Promise
5. In the Garden
6. Lord of the Dance
7. It is Well with My Soul
8. Be Thou My Vision
9. Great is Thy Faithfulness
10. Blessed Assurance/Because He Lives (tie)
11. The Old Rugged Cross
12. Holy, Holy, Holy
13. For a Thousand Tongues to Sing
14. Spirit Song
15. Victory in Jesus
16. Pass It On
17. What a Friend We Have in Jesus
18. Christ the Lord is Risen Today
19. Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore
20. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee/Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing (tie)