The Prelude on Sunday, October 9 was Bill and Gloria Gaither's "There's Just Something About That Name" arranged for piano by the late Fred Bock. Several people were kind enough to say they enjoyed it, so I'm offering a recording of the music with lyrics printed below. In performance, the chorus is sung followed by a reading with the music repeated softly as background. Then the chorus is sung again in closing. This piano arrangement begins with a 14-second introduction. My wish is that the music and words will bless you as they have thousands of others in the past four decades. ~Anita
(chorus)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...there's just something about that name!
Master, Savior, Jesus...like the sunshine after the rain;
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...let all Heaven and earth proclaim, "Kings and kingdoms may all pass away, but there's something about that name!"
(text to be read or recited)
Jesus.
The mere mention of His name can calm the storm, heal the broken, raise the dead.
At the name of Jesus, I’ve seen hardened men melted, derelicts transformed ... the light of hope put back into the eyes of a hopeless child … at the name of Jesus, hatred and bitterness turned to love and forgiveness ... arguments cease.
I’ve heard a mother softly breathe His name at the bedside of a child delirious with fever, and I’ve watched that little body grow quiet and the fevered brow cool.
I’ve sat beside a dying saint, her body racked with pain, who in those final fleeting seconds summoned her last ounce of ebbing strength to whisper earth’s sweetest name, “Jesus, Jesus…”
Emperors have tried to destroy it. Philosophies have tried to stamp it out. Tyrants have tried to wash it from the face of the earth with the very blood of those who claimed it. Yet still it stands.
And there shall be that final day when every voice that has ever uttered a sound—every voice of Adam’s race shall raise in one great mighty chorus to proclaim the name of Jesus—for in that day “every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord”!
And so you see, it was not mere chance that caused the angel one night long ago to say to a virgin maiden, “His name shall be called Jesus.”
Jesus … Jesus … Jesus. You know, there is something about that name!
(chorus)
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...there's just something about that name!
Master, Savior, Jesus...like the sunshine after the rain;
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus...let all Heaven and earth proclaim, "Kings and kingdoms may all pass away, but there's something about that name!"
Jesus ... Jesus ... Jesus ... Jesus ... Jesus ... ... Jesus