Comments on: Invitation Songs

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:08:13 +0000

“Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was always my favorite!

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:52:09 +0000

Memphis…April 1965…Jimmy Allen preaching…colliseum packed full…131 (Just As I Am)…we sang the invitation for 45 minutes…I used to know how many times we sang the song (after about 4 times I started counting)…and Jimmy made comments between and during the verses…powerful!

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:24:48 +0000

“Jesus, I Come” (“Out of my bondage, sorrow and night…”) is a powerful invitation hymn by William Sleeper. It describes many different struggles of the soul and the life-transforming power of the gospel.

By: Geezer

Geezer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:12:04 +0000

from the following site:
http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Oh_Why_Not_Tonight/

written by Elizabeth Reed

1. Oh, do not let the Word depart,
And close thine eyes against the light;
Poor sinner, harden not your heart,
Be saved, oh, tonight.
* Refrain:
Oh, why not tonight?
Oh, why not tonight?
Wilt thou be saved?
Then why not tonight?
2. Tomorrow’s sun may never rise
To bless thy long-deluded sight;
This is the time, oh, then be wise,
Be saved, oh, tonight.
3. Our Lord in pity lingers still,
And wilt thou thus His love requite?
Renounce at once thy stubborn will,
Be saved, oh, tonight.
4. Our blessed Lord refuses none
Who would to Him their souls unite;
Believe on Him, the work is done,
Be saved, oh, tonight.

By: Carol Johnson

Carol Johnson — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:49:00 +0000

I would like the lyrics to “O Why Not Tonight” it has been a long time since I have heard this song used in a invitation. I remember hereing it mostly during revials.
Thanks
In Him
Carol

By: Kenny

Kenny — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:57:37 +0000

I was looking for words & music for an old song called “I love the old songs” it has different verses on some of the old gospel songs

Thanks

Kenny

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:23:14 +0000

Thank you for your beautiful posts. You have brought back many memories from my past, as well.

My favorite ( from the Baptist Church) was Higher Ground. If you listen to Van Morrison’s song, Whenever God shines His light, you’ll hear overtones of the hymn. He must have sung it as a child, also.

By: Judith Forbes

Judith Forbes — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:36:09 +0000

I wanted this song to sing for an appeal at a church service and found it here. Thanks a lot. May God bless you

By: ligure

ligure — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:46:30 +0000

Stupore! ho una sensibilit? molto buona circa il vostro luogo!!!!

By: Marilyn Kierstead

Marilyn Kierstead — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 13:16:28 +0000

I have been looking for the words “Have You Counted The Cost” and found them here on your website. Thank you form the bottom of my heart. My husband passed away on March 21 and thre were so many attending the funeral who did not know the Lord. Again, thank you.

By: Jeffrey Underwood

Jeffrey Underwood — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:05:44 +0000

Google is the best search engine

By: Alanzo Smith

Alanzo Smith — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:58:10 +0000

Could you please send me the words of the song “Have you counted the cost if your sould should be lost”
Thanks.

By: Sherry C

Sherry C — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:44:46 +0000

Ohhh, the precious memories you have evoked! Although I love much of the newer music I, too, am “hard-wired” for those old hymns. Brother K. C. Moser used to say that our theology needed to catch up with the hymns we were singing, and I think he was right. We sang a lot more about grace than we ever talked about it, back then.

In the past 10 years, one of the most powerful “invitation” songs I’ve experienced was when we were doing a series on the Ten Commandments, one per Sunday. In the sermon about the 2nd commandment, after being challenged by the preacher to examine modern-day equivalents like sports, TV and computer games that regularly absorb more time than we give to God… and how so many of these teen killers had spent time shooting other humanoids in violent videogames… and how we become like what we spend time with… we stood and sang O to Be Like Thee. I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard it used for an invitation song, per se, but I was suddenly blown away by the line “stamp Thine own image deep on my heart”! After all, that’s what it’s all about.

By: Carolyn

Carolyn — Wed, 17 May 2006 16:17:53 +0000

OK…I’ve been a lurker for quite a while and finally decided to take the plunge! My favorite is Trust & Obey – I still remember hearing it at Clyde cofC! What a great song!

By: Bonnie Anderson

Bonnie Anderson — Wed, 10 May 2006 13:02:06 +0000

My father baptized me in 1967 after we had sung “Have you Been to Jesus”.
I also wanted to agree with what Richard wrote in an earlier post “Those old songs taught me more about grace than most sermons I heard.” I often wonder why those who whine that they never learned about grace growing up in the church didn’t recognize it in the last verse of “Years I Spent in Vanity and Pride….Oh the love that drew salvation’s plan – Oh the grace that brought it down to man – Oh the mighty gulf that God did span, at Calvary…Mercy there was great and grace was free – Pardon there was multiplied to me – There my burdened soul found liberty, at Calvary.”
The most beautiful invitation song I remember hearing was at a small congregation in Arkansas in the 70′s…Have You Counted the Cost?

There’s a line that is drawn by rejecting our Lord,
Where the call of His Spirit is lost,
And you hurry along with the pleasure-mad throng,
Have you counted, have you couned the cost?

You may barter your hope of eternity’s morn,
For a moment of joy at themost,
For the glitter of siin and the things it will win,
Have you counted, have you counted the cost?

While the door of his mercy is open to you,
Ere the depths of His love you exhaust,
Won’t you come an be healed, won’t you whisper, I yield,
Have you counted, have you counted the cost?

Have you counted the cost, if your soul should be lost,
Though you gain the whole world for your own?
Even now it may be that the line you have crossed,
Have you counted, have you counted the cost?