‘How Great Thou Art’ by The Bonner Family Will Stir Your Soul

 

The Bonner Family sings a beautiful rendition of the Christian hymn ‘How Great Thou Art.’

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‘How Great Thou Art’ is a classic hymn based on a Swedish traditional melody and a poem written by Carl Boberg (1859–1940) in Mönsterås, Sweden, in 1885.

The song was translated into German and then into Russian and later into English by English missionary Stuart K. Hine who also added two original verses of his own.

O Lord my God! O Lord my God!
How great Thou art!
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed.

The hymn became very popular after George Beverly Shea and Cliff Barrows sang it regularly during the Billy Graham crusades.

It was voted the UK’s favorite hymn by BBC’s Songs of Praise and ranked second after ‘Amazing Grace’ among all time favorite hymns in a survey by Christianity Today magazine in 2001.

Then sings my soul (sings my soul), my Savior God, to Thee (my God to Thee),
How great Thou art (great Thou art), how great Thou art (how great Thou art),
Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to Thee (my Savior, my Savior to Thee)
How great Thou art (how great Thou art), how great Thou art!

Today as The Bonner Family sings this eternal hymn it reminds us of the greatness of God and how we can all make it to heaven because Jesus died on the cross for us.

How did this move you?

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“[The Humbled and Exalted Christ] Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.”

Philippians 2:5-8