The Cyber Hymnal™

Suggestions for Using This Site

• Do you need hymns to match a ser­mon theme? Check our To­pics and Scrip­ture Al­lu­sions in­dexes. Or, if you want to add in­ter­est to some dull ser­mon top­ics, check out the Trivia sect­ion for an­ec­dotes you can use.

• Are you choos­ing hymns for a wor­ship serv­ice, but don’t know what they sound like? Now you can find out!
• Do you want to put hymn lyr­ics in your Sun­day bul­le­tin? Co­py and paste them from the Cyb­er Hym­nal™! This is fast­er and less er­ror prone than man­ual typi­ng.
• Do you want some­thing dif­fer­ent for your church serv­ice? Check out the non-Eng­lish lyr­ics.
• Are you em­bar­rassed when the church serv­ice in­cludes a hymn you don’t know? You came to the right place!
• Have you been asked to be a song lead­er, but you can’t read mu­sic? Learn the tune here!
• Are you un­sure if your con­gre­ga­tion is fa­mil­iar with hymns you want to use? Af­ter you choose hymns for a serv­ice, put links to them on your church Web site. This lets church mem­bers learn the hymns ahead of time.
• Does your church have a hard time sing­ing cer­tain hymns? Put links to them on your Web site so church mem­bers can learn them bet­ter.
• Do you need back­ground mu­sic for a church Web site? Down­load some of the pub­lic do­main MI­DI files!
• Do you know some­one who’s house­bound and can’t get to church? The Cyber Hym­nal™ can sup­ple­ment home wor­ship.
• Do you know peo­ple who are hard of hear­ing and have dif­fi­cul­ty pick­ing up tunes in church? Have them sit down with the Cyber Hym­nal™ and turn up the speak­er vol­ume!
• Are you a song writ­er look­ing for in­spir­ation? Check out the To­pics and Scrip­ture Al­lu­sions ind­ex­es. The lyr­ics of ma­ny old hymns have time­less truths wait­ing to be adapt­ed to mo­dern mu­sic. For ex­am­ple, the Jars of Clay song Je­sus, I Lift My Eyes is based on Anne Steele’s 1760 hymn When Sins and Fears Pre­vail­ing Rise. If you’re not a song writ­er, but you know some­one who is, let him know about this site!
• Have you writ­ten (or found) a po­em or song, and want mu­sic to match the words? If the words are in a re­gu­lar me­ter, check out the Tunes by Me­ter in­dex. If you can’t find a tune that fits the words, per­haps—with some light ed­it­ing—you can put the words in­to a me­ter that fits one of the tunes?
• Teach your kids the clas­sic hymns that some mo­dern hym­nals no long­er car­ry.
• Do you home school your child­ren? The Cyber Hym­nal™ can help kids learn mu­sic and fa­mi­ly-friend­ly songs along with their ABC’s!
• Do you teach mu­sic and want sheet mu­sic for your stu­dents to prac­tice with, or play at re­ci­tals? We have thou­sands of le­gal­ly free pub­lic domain scores, at va­ry­ing le­vels of dif­fi­cul­ty. You can ev­en ed­it or rear­range them for cus­tom needs!
• Are you lead­ing a Bi­ble stu­dy? Use the Scrip­ture Al­lu­sions in­dex to find a hymn for the verse(s) you’re work­ing on.
• Do you know mis­sion­ar­ies who need hym­nals, or mi­li­ta­ry per­son­nel or chap­lains with­out a cha­pel? If they have an In­ter­net con­nec­tion, tell them ab­out this site.
• Are you tired of watch­ing TV at night? Here’s a chance to learn some new mu­sic, en­joy old, fa­mil­iar tunes, and com­mune with your Mak­er.
• Are you going Christ­mas car­ol­ing? Come here to get sheet mu­sic (the PDF icon on each hymn and song pag). If you’re car­ol­ing at night, you can have Note­Wor­thy Com­po­ser in­crease the font size to make the mu­sic ea­si­er to read in the dark.
• Are your Christ­mas Eve ser­vic­es play­ing the same old car­ols year af­ter year? Check out our Christ­mas sec­tion to add va­ri­ety!
• Are you hav­ing an East­er sun­rise serv­ice? Print the sheet mu­sic for the con­gre­ga­tion in­stead of risk­ing dam­age to the hym­nals out­side!