For the last year or so I have occasionally sung the song “Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing” which includes the line “Here I raise my Ebenezer” without having any idea what this means. Yesterday I decided to Google the word because my only understanding of “Ebenezer” is connected with “Scrooge” and Christmas. It appears it comes from the Hebrew אֶבֶן הָעֵזֶר which means “stone of help”. I guess I should have been able to deduct that since I knew both words but for one reason or another I didn’t put the two together.
Sometimes I wonder how many songs I sing or have sung that I don’t understand. Can you think of any songs that you do not know what you are singing yet you keep on singing it?
the archives near Emmaus 
Not off hand, but that was one of them, that expression I mean.
Interestingly, before we began our praise and worship yesterday, I added a word from Eph. 5:18ff, urging everyone to sing with the understanding not just for self but to minister to one another. I find myself stressing theology in songs.
“MmmBop” by Hanson. 😛
Did you publicly confess to singing Hanson?!
Sure did! I imagine that plenty of others will follow suit. Testimonies are a powerful thing. 😉
You’re a bold man!
Nick is pretty brave. Who knows what one blogger may do with that sort of information.
As a four or five year old, I knew my dad was an insurance salesman. So, in church, I used to sing “Blessed Insurance” the five or six times the choir tried to end the service to no avail cuz the preacher would not stop sermonizing.
Oh, and instead of “I Feel Like Going On” at another church I grew up in, I used to sing “I feel like going HOME.”
Rod: Those are hilarious examples! My only problem is I am twenty-seven still mis-singing songs. It seems like you got over that at age ten.