Category: Amazing Grace

  • HE LIFTED ME

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Charles H. Gabriel, 1856–1932 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. (Psalm…

  • JESUS LOVES EVEN ME

    Amazing Grace JESUS LOVES EVEN ME Words and Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1838–1876 As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. (John 15:9) The wonder of Jesus’ deep love for each of us has been expressed in this text in beautiful but childlike language by the…

  • MORE LOVE TO THEE

    Amazing Grace Elizabeth Prentiss, 1818–1878 And this is my prayer: That your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through…

  • MY JESUS, I LOVE THEE

    MY JESUS, I LOVE THEE An American Folk Hymn taken from Ingall’s Christian Harmony, 1805 O love the Lord, all ye saints. (Psalm 31:23) Blest be Thy love, dear Lord, that taught us this sweet way,Only to love Thee for Thyself, and for that love obey.— J. Austin Secular songs of romantic expressions abound on…

  • WHAT WONDROUS LOVE IS THIS

    Amazing Grace Alexander Means, 1801-1883 Anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. (Deuteronomy 21:23)Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. (John 15:13) Not father or mother has loved you as God has, for it was that you might be happy He gave…

  • THE WONDER OF IT ALL

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by George Beverly Shea, 1909–2013 What is man that You are mindful of him, the Son of Man that You care for Him? (Hebrews 2:6) What many Christians need today is a rebirth of wonder and awe. We know the gospel intellectually, but it seldom reaches our emotions and will.…

  • AND COULD IT BE THAT I SHOULD GAIN?

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood … (Revelation 1:5) Can any believer contemplate the “amazing love” of Calvary without sharing the awe and wonder of Charles Wesley’s questions in today’s hymn? Written a short time after his “heart-warming” Aldersgate experience on…

  • I AM HIS AND HE IS MINE

    Amazing Grace George Wade Robinson, 1838–1877 Your life is now hidden with Christ in God. (Colossians 3:3) Spiritual maturity is a growing appreciation of God simply for who He is. Only then can we begin to revel in our eternal union with Him. This realization gives all of life a different perspective. Life takes on…

  • O LOVE THAT WILL NOT LET ME GO

    Amazing Grace George Matheson, 1842–1902 I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with lovingkindness. (Jeremiah 31:3) The writing of this thoughtful and artistically constructed text is most remarkable! It was authored by an esteemed Scottish minister who was totally blind and who described the writing as the “fruit of much…

  • JESUS, LOVER OF MY SOUL

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him. (Nahum 1:7) The universal recognition of a personal dependence upon the infinite God has no doubt made this appealing hymn the best loved of the more than 6500 texts of Charles Wesley.…