Prepare
for Worship

By: Ryan Brasington

Happy Independence Day, Church! 

As you celebrate America’s 249th anniversary of independence this weekend, I hope you will accompany your grill-outs and firework shows with these great patriotic hymns. A reading of the Declaration of Independence is also linked below, for your reflection. Give God thanks for this nation and pray for its peace and prosperity! 

The Declaration of Independence

My Country ‘Tis of Thee

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Eternal Father, Strong to Save (my personal favorite!)

God of Our Fathers

God Bless America

America, the Beautiful

This Land is My Land

Shenendoah

Homeward Bound

God, bless the USA!

Your brother,

Ryan

* All Spurgeon quotes came from Laid Aside – Why? in Spurgeon’s monthly publication, The Sword and the Trowel, May 1876, as edited by Hannah Wyncoll in the collection The Suffering Letters of C.H. Spurgeon (London: Wakeman Trust, 2007).a* E. Doumergue, Jean Calvin: Les hommes et les choses de son temps, 2 vols. (Lausanne: Georges Bridel, 1902), 2:504. Quoted in William D. Maxwell, Concerning Worship (London: Oxford University Press, 1948), 27.