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.

Documents the struggles of the Ericksons to overcome adversity when three of their children succumb to a mysterious, crippling illness.

An illustrated presentation of the hymn that proclaims how wind and rain, steel and machines, athlete and band all "sing to the Lord a new song."

Musicians and congregations can join in the worship of our great God through the music of Saints of Zion. The Saints of Zion Songbook features fourteen hymns from the album arranged for piano and SATB choir as well as eleven shorter hymnal arrangements that are suitable for congregational singing or family worship.

Rusty Edwards and Jenni Lee Boyden are true modern-day psalmists in that their hymns speak of our common earth-bound conditions with all its joys and pains, but they inevitably address God's unending presence and our words of praise. Additional texts and tunes are provided by Helen Cummings, Hal Hopson (who also authored the Foreword), Amanda Husberg, Mark Miller, Juanita Sabochick, and Russell Schulz-Widmar. Each hymn is presented first as text only, so that it can be read unencumbered by music. The second presentation is a "full music" version with interlined in standard hymn format. Finally, the hymn is set in "tune line" version, suitable for duplication in a bulletin. Part of the Abingdon Press Hymn Series.