{"id":1737,"date":"2016-12-01T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:30:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T21:30:06","slug":"tell-me-the-story-of-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/tell-me-the-story-of-jesus\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me The Story Of Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tScripture verse: 1 Timothy 2:5-6\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA few days ago, I was on a forum and someone posted a question.&nbsp; What is a song that tells an entire story, beginning, middle and end? It only took a second to think of church hymns and Christmas songs. Composers and musicians have supplied us with a glorious host of music that celebrates and sets the tone of the holidays even in the secular world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFrances J. Crosby, one of the most prolific composers of church music (she wrote or co-wrote over 8,000 songs!) was a missionary, teacher, writer, and composer who went blind at age three. &nbsp;<em>Tell Me The Story Of Jesus<\/em> was written by Frances J. Crosby and John R. Sweney in 1880.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>The Garment Of Praise Quartet<\/em> is a male gospel quartet from Reading, PA who sing a cappella (voice only) music.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlthough not a traditional Christmas carol, let us begin this season of joy by listening to <em>Tell Me The Story Of Jesus.<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sGVuHMUwoPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scripture verse: 1 Timothy 2:5-6 A few days ago, I was on a forum and someone posted a question.&nbsp; What is a song that tells an entire story, beginning, middle and end? It only took a second to think of church hymns and Christmas songs. Composers and musicians have supplied us with a glorious host [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[513],"tags":[539,550,548,551,549,547],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-musings","tag-christmas-song","tag-frances-j-crosby","tag-garment-of-praise-quartet","tag-john-sweney","tag-scripture-verse","tag-tell-me-the-story-of-jesus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}