For instance:
How Great Is Our God with How Great Thou Art
Have you used anything in your church that “just works” that you can share? Post it in the comments below, on Twitter with the hashtag #hymnandsong, or on our Facebook page.
From Twitter:
@RobTWillJr – “Great Is Your Faithfulness” with “Great Is Thy Faithfulness”
@AnthonyCroft – “Here I Am To Worship” with “I Surrender All.”
@DennisCCook – “Mighty to Save” with “I Surrender All”
@FSBCWorship – “Stronger” and “It Is Well with My Soul” / “Revelation Song” and “Holy, Holy, Holy”
@jason_carson – “All Creatures of Our God and King” with “Let Everything that Has Breath”
@nathanphifer – “How He Loves” with “Oh, How He Loves You and Me”
@BobTRoberts – “A Mighty Fortress (Nockels)” with “A Mighty Fortress Is Our God” or… “A Mighty Fortress (Nockels)” with “Holy, Holy, Holy,” keeping the same tempo and rhythm pattern.
@PewPotato – “The Power of the Cross (Oh, to See the Dawn)” with “The Wonderful Cross”
From Facebook:
Linda: “Our God” (Tomlin-Redman) with How Great is Our God and How Great Thou Art.
Rodney: ”My Jesus I Love Thee” with “I Love You Lord”
Colby: “Holy, Holy, Holy” with “I See the Lord”
Josh: The creole hymn “Loue” and “Nothing but the Blood”
Kemuel: “In Christ Alone” with “The Solid Rock”
Dennis: “How He Loves” with “Oh How He Loves You and Me”
Leo: “Shout to the Lord” with “To God Be the Glory”
Robert: “Sing to the King” with “O Worship the King”
Alan: “Open the Eyes of My Heart” with “Open Our Eyes, Lord”
Jeremy: “I Know Whom I Have Believed” with “My Redeemer Lives” between verses 1 and 2
My favorite right now is the hymn “Nothing But The Blood” with the Haitian worship song “Loue” (available in English and Creole). I love pairing hymns with global songs as it is such a powerful reminder that we are part of the multicultural Body of Christ. And we belong together! FYI: you can find this hymn/global chorus pairing + others on our “Hymns With Global Songs” project at: http://proskuneo.info/resources/multicultural-worship-music/
Rescue/I Have Decided to Follow Jesus
Breathe/I Need Thee Every Hour
Your Great Name/Take the Name of Jesus with You (Precious Name)
Holy, Holy, Holy with We Fall Down
“Day by Day”: the hymn (Skoog/Ahnfelt) with the contemporary song (Chichester/Schwartz, from Godspell) as a chorus – an ideal pairing for tempo change, seamless key change back-and-forth, and complementary themes of prayer and testimony