Category: Amazing Grace

  • HE HIDETH MY SOUL

    Fanny J. Crosby, 1820–1915 I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand. (Exodus 33:22) The beloved blind American poet Fanny Jane Crosby did not begin writing gospel texts until her mid-forties. But from then on, inspiring words seemed to flow constantly from her heart, and she became…

  • FROM EVERY STORMY WIND THAT BLOWS

    Hugh Stowell, 1799–1865 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you … (Isaiah 43:2) God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in,That He may speak, perchance through grief or pain;And softly, heart to heart, above the dinMay teach some precious truth to us again.— Unknown In Old Testament worship, the mercy…

  • A SHELTER IN THE TIME OF STORM

    Vernon J. Charlesworth, 1838–1915 with alteration You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance. (Psalm 32:7) Storms often hit the northern coast of England bringing distress to the many small fishing vessels that ply the coastal waters. It is reported that “A Shelter in the…

  • HIDING IN THEE

    William O. Cushing, 1823–1902 But the Lord has become my fortress, and my God the rock in whom I take refuge. (Psalm 94:22) In childhood when we were frightened we wanted to run and hide in our mother’s or father’s arms until we felt the danger had passed. In the same way when trouble and…

  • GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU

    Civilla D. Martin, 1869–1948 Cast your cares on the Lord and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall. (Psalm 55:22) Do we as Christians trust God for salvation and eternal life yet at times doubt that He will tenderly care for us in our daily life? We all seem to need…

  • NO ONE UNDERSTANDS LIKE JESUS

    NO ONE UNDERSTANDS LIKE JESUS Words and Music by John W. Peterson, 1921–2006 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace…

  • DOES JESUS CARE?

    Frank E. Graeff, 1860–1919 And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age. (Matthew 28:20) God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pain.— C. S. Lewis Frank E. Graeff, author of this hymn text, knew what it was to wonder, as most of God’s children do at…

  • COME, YE DISCONSOLATE

    Thomas Moore, 1779–1852, (verses 1 and 2 with alterations)Thomas Hastings, 1784–1872, (verse 3) You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) God’s delight is to administer comfort to wounded spirits.— Unknown Repeating the plea to “come” and the plaintive promise that “earth has no sorrow that…

  • SWEET PEACE, THE GIFT OF GOD’S LOVE

    Words and Music by Peter P. Bilhorn, 1865–1936 Great peace have they who love Your law, and nothing can make them stumble. (Psalm 119:165) The blessing of peace is the one prize that often eludes those who seem to have attained everything else in life. Yet peace is one of the choice gifts left to…

  • LIKE A RIVER GLORIOUS

    Frances R. Havergal, 1836–1879 If only you had paid attention to my commands, your peace would have been like a river, your righteousness like the waves of the sea. (Isaiah 48:18) Our gift of salvation includes more than pardon from sin, deliverance from hell, and a guarantee to heaven. It includes everything we need to…