Our churches needs psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs that speak to the full range of human experience. We need songs for seasons of lament, praise, distress, and hope.

One hymn of hope worth reclaiming today is Samuel Stennett’s “On Jordan’s Stormy Banks I Stand.”

Let me commend to you the Jars boys’ version for your church. May it help your people set their gaze toward their heavenly city.

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand
And cast a wishful eye
To Canaan’s fair and happy land
Where my possessions lie

All o’er those wide extended plains
Shines one eternal day
There God, the Son forever reigns
And scatters night away

I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land
I am bound, I am bound, I am bound for the Promise Land

No chilling wind nor poisonous breath
Can reach that healthful shore
Where sickness, sorrow, pain and death
Are felt and feared no more

When shall I see that happy place
And be forever blessed
When shall I see my Father’s face
And in His bosom rest

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