This cross-reference tool is designed to help church worship planners and leaders coordinate music with scripture and sermons. Helpful phrases describe each hymn's content. Scripture references associated with a song or suggested in stanzas can be easily located. Or, conversely, it is easy to identify hymns that relate to specific scripture passages.

Providing literary analysis and historical background, Leland Ryken invites us to experience great hymns as powerful works of devotional poetrysavoring elements that we easily miss when singing them.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.