Dakota Hymn
Our song writer, Joseph Renville, was born in 1779 in a small village near the east bank of the Mississippi River in a place now called St. Paul, Minnesota, only four miles from where I was born 175 years later. Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Campfire Songs
Give Me Jesus
This song dates back at least to the mid 1800’s. It has been published in print and through recordings many times, with a wide variety of lyrics, melodies and arrangements. Many lean toward pensive and somber. Some are a bit Continue Reading →
Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Jesus said, “Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” All of us — whether we are getting to know Jesus for the first time or have greeted him 30,000 mornings Continue Reading →
My Jesus I Love Thee
This is a fine old gospel song, very much worth knowing because it gives back to us every time we sing it. This song is a wonderful treasure we can “have to give to him that needs”. Please give it Continue Reading →
Our Heavenly Father (Birdie Song)
You might not have been thinking about totalitarianism, so let me help you change that. I’m told Jordan Peterson (Canadian psychologist, author and speaker) said that the antithesis of totalitarianism is — wait for it — play. If what he Continue Reading →
The Very Same Power
There are lots and lots of Christmas songs, many Easter songs — and a few Pentecost songs. Maybe if more people knew what it is we celebrate at Pentecost, we’d have more songs about it. “The Very Same Power” is Continue Reading →
Near To The Heart Of God
This peaceful song was written in 1903, the same year the Wright Brothers made aviation history at Kitty Hawk, but remained relatively unpublished for its first thirty years. Around the early 1930’s its reach grew, and by now it has Continue Reading →
In The Garden
How do we get to know someone better? Our song “In The Garden” suggests answers to that question. Please give it a sing-along listen, then lets talk about building warm relationships. Getting to know you It is not hard for Continue Reading →
Be Still
Psalm 46:10 (NIV) says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The message of Psalm 46 has always been current information. The very week I’m Continue Reading →
Walking With My Lord
It was the first day of Kindergarten. My youngest daughter, not quite 5, paused by the front door to summon the courage for her first school bus ride into the unknown. What did she do? She sang THIS song. It Continue Reading →