“That every knee to Thee should bow.”

by | Dec 22, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

A hymn by Josiah Conder: Thou art the everlasting Word, The Father’s only Son; God manifest, God seen and heard, The heaven’s beloved One; Worthy, O Lamb of God, art Thou, That every knee to Thee should bow! In Thee, most perfectly expressed, The...

“Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him”

by | Dec 8, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

Have you ever actually read the words to this old christmas hymn? In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, long ago. Our God, Heaven cannot hold...

“I give Thee back the life I owe.”

by | Nov 3, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

Grace Amadio recommended this hymn by George Matheson: O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. O Light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering...

A Glory Gilds the Sacred Page

by | Oct 27, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

A hymn by William Cowper: A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun; It gives a light to every age; It gives, but borrows none. The Spirit breathes upon the Word And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. The hand that...

All there is

by | Oct 13, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

To eat, to breathe to beget Is this all there is Chance configuration of atom against atom of god against god I cannot believe it. Come, Christian Triune God who lives, Here am I Shake the world again. –Francis...

“Hasten to Thy glorious day”

by | Oct 13, 2012 | Saturday Hymns

A hymn by Charles Wesley: Forth in Thy Name, O Lord, I go, My daily labor to pursue; Thee, only Thee, resolved to know In all I think or speak or do. The task Thy wisdom hath assigned, O let me cheerfully fulfill; In all my works Thy presence find, And prove Thy good...