Let’s see: Sometimes in the morning when I get up, I feel like I’m about 110 years old. By lunch, I can be about 59. On a good day, I can be reaching for 43 in the mid-afternoon. In the evening, I can even be feeling those twenties again. But by bedtime, I’m closer to …
The Popular Hymnal is another of my hymnals from the publisher, Robert H. Coleman. For some reason this name strikes me as being a little odd in this day and age. In some way, it’s similar to mentioning The Modern Hymnal from 1926 in the year 2021. However, reading the Foreword, one finds validity in …
To be honest with you, I have to say that I… Have you ever noticed how brutally honest scripture is? Currently I’m using Psalms and Lessons for the Christian Year from The Book of Common Prayer of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA as my daily Bible reading plan. Today’s reading from Psalms was …
This hymn book or song book, Coleman’s Songs for Men, is not like the hymnals that Robert H. Coleman published, nor is it like the paperback songbook, Reapers. It is, however, a specialty songbook as it is designed for men. B.B. McKinney was working as musical editor for Robert Coleman when this little book was …
What do you do if you learn something that nobody else knows? Are you bursting to tell somebody else? Or, do you prefer to hold it close with a sense of having a secret? Daniel was a person who was made privy to a lot of information. The parts he wrote down appear to be …
Reapers, like The Modern Hymnal and The American Hymnal, is from publisher Robert H. Coleman. Links are included to each of these at the end of this article. As you can see this is a paperback hymnal, or songbook, unlike the other two which are hardbound. And, as a paperback, they were able to print …
We’ve all been there. Life is not going as we planned or wished or hoped, and we start our own personal pity party. Of course, someone comes along and tries to cheer us up, but we don’t want any part of it. We find consolation or relief, maybe satisfaction, in feeling ourselves the victim of …
