{"id":20445,"date":"2025-02-02T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20445"},"modified":"2025-02-01T20:20:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T01:20:16","slug":"sunday-singing-keep-your-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20445","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Keep Your Lamps!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keep Your Lamps! - Arr. Andr\u00e9 Thomas\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzkAF1S-m-g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s hymn continues our trend of traditional songs. &#8220;Keep Your Lamps!&#8221; is attributed to Blind Willie Johnson (1897\u20131945), an American\u00a0gospel blues\u00a0singer and guitarist, who was the first to record it in 1928. The performance above is by the choirs of Florida State University conducted by the composition&#8217;s arranger, Andr\u00e9 Thomas (1952- )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.&#8221; (Mt 25:13 ESV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Keep your lamps trimmed and burning, (3x)<br>the day is drawing nigh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Refrain:<br>Children, don&#8217;t get weary, (3x)<br>till your work is done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Darker midnight lies before us, (3x)<br>the day is drawing nigh. [Refrain]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 For the morning soon is breaking, (3x)<br>the day is drawing nigh. [Refrain]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Christian journey soon be over, (3x)<br>the day is drawing nigh. [Refrain]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s hymn continues our trend of traditional songs. &#8220;Keep Your Lamps!&#8221; is attributed to Blind Willie Johnson (1897\u20131945), an American\u00a0gospel blues\u00a0singer and guitarist, who was the first to record it in 1928. The performance above is by the choirs of Florida State University conducted by the composition&#8217;s arranger, Andr\u00e9 Thomas (1952- ) &#8220;Watch therefore, for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=20445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Keep Your Lamps!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,5089,3966],"class_list":["post-20445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-spirituals","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20446,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20445\/revisions\/20446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}