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I remember my days at HAC, mostly in the latter 70s as an introduction to many songs that were congregationally sung in chapel that I had never heard before. I haven't heard them since either.

Back then, I actually thought Dr. Evans' song leading was a bit strange, but then a friend of mine said one day, "He might be a bit weird, but he knows how to get people to sing." After I thought about that I had to concede that my friend was right.

But today, some of those songs we sang are sweet to me. Here are a few that I remember. What are yours? Help me with my poor memory.

Pearly White City
And Can it Be? Amazing Love
Wonderful, the Matchless Grace of Jesus
Coming Again
 
Justice1976 said:
And Can it Be? Amazing Love
Wonderful, the Matchless Grace of Jesus
Coming Again
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Top of this list is a classic hymn that the CC congregation I am part of sings from time to time.

Wonderful Grace of Jesus was always a fun song to sing within a congregation with its harmonies and parallel lines. I wish it was sung more often. It's very doctrinally solid.

I remember the chorus of Coming Again but little else. Sung within the Campus Church (PCC) maybe a couple times but played frequently on WPCS.
 
Justice1976 said:
I remember my days at HAC, mostly in the latter 70s as an introduction to many songs that were congregationally sung in chapel that I had never heard before. I haven't heard them since either.

Back then, I actually thought Dr. Evans' song leading was a bit strange, but then a friend of mine said one day, "He might be a bit weird, but he knows how to get people to sing." After I thought about that I had to concede that my friend was right.

But today, some of those songs we sang are sweet to me. Here are a few that I remember. What are yours? Help me with my poor memory.

Pearly White City
And Can it Be? Amazing Love
Wonderful, the Matchless Grace of Jesus
Coming Again
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I love, "And, Can It Be?"
 
Justice1976 said:
I remember my days at HAC, mostly in the latter 70s as an introduction to many songs that were congregationally sung in chapel that I had never heard before. I haven't heard them since either.

Back then, I actually thought Dr. Evans' song leading was a bit strange, but then a friend of mine said one day, "He might be a bit weird, but he knows how to get people to sing." After I thought about that I had to concede that my friend was right.

But today, some of those songs we sang are sweet to me. Here are a few that I remember. What are yours? Help me with my poor memory.

Pearly White City
And Can it Be? Amazing Love
Wonderful, the Matchless Grace of Jesus
Coming Again
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Coming Again.... ..
"Ladies "
 
Rejoice in the Lord this song always makes me cry happy tears
 
Jo said:
I love, "And, Can It Be?"
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It's funny because Wesley wrote it and it is a Calvinist song.

ong my imprisoned spirit lay,
Fast bound in sin and nature's night
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray
I woke, the dungeon flamed with light
My chains fell off, my heart was free
I rose, went forth, and followed Thee
 
Bob Jones VI said:
It's funny because Wesley wrote it and it is a Calvinist song.
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Leading John Duncan, a Scottish theology professor from the 19th century, to ask: "Where's your Arminianism now, friend?"

The Wesleys were Arminians and wrote many explicitly Arminian hymns. But they were also friendly with George Whitefield, who was a Calvinist, and "And Can It Be" reflects his theology, not theirs.
 
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