Hymns – remixed (free this week)

April 28, 2010 in Christian Living, for Churches, Pastors

I love a good remix. Earlier this week I purchased the Mash Up Mix – 90s, a collection of classic 90s tracks, remixed.

Whilst dance music is fun, hymns are in a league of their own and have been a great blessing to my Christian walk.

Page CXVI aims to make hymns accessible again. I discovered them last year when I downloaded their first album. My favourite track from this album is hands-down, ‘Come Thou Fount’. I’m always cut to the heart when I sing this line:

“Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Take my heart Lord, take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above”.

At the end of the song is this great line – a call to action:

“I am bound for the kingdom, won’t you come with me?”

The songs in the first album (free to download this week) are:

  • When I Survey The Wondrous Cross
  • Solid Rock
  • My Jesus I Love Thee
  • Joy
  • In Christ Alone
  • Come Thou Fount

The songs in the second album are:

  • How Great Thou Art
  • Praise to the Lord
  • My Jesus I am Resting, Resting
  • Rock of Ages
  • Abide With Me
  • Battle Hymn of the Republic
  • Doxology

The new album is available as a download or CD ($9.99 each), or both for $11.99. You can get them at the Page CXVI website.

Thanks Page CXVI for making hymns accessible to a new generation.

And finally – where do they get the name Page CXVI from? They explain:

The name comes from a reference to page 116 in our copy of The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis. It is a poignant passage where Aslan begins to sing Narnia into creation out of a black void.

It starts, “In the darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction is was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so beautiful he could hardly bear it.”
~ C.S. Lewis