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  • SO I SEND YOU

    Amazing Grace E. Margaret Clarkson, 1915–2008 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” And I said, “Here am I. Send me!” (Isaiah 6:8) Isolated from Christian fellowship and feeling very lonely, Margaret Clarkson was a 23-year-old school teacher in a gold-mining camp town…

  • CHRIST FOR THE WORLD WE SING

    Amazing Grace Samuel Wolcott, 1813–1886 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the age.…

  • GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by James McGranahan, 1840–1907 Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation. (Mark 16:15) Give us a watchword for the hour, a thrilling word, a word of power;A battlecry, a flaming breath that calls to conquer even death.A word to rouse the Church from rest,…

  • THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES 8

    2 Maccabees 8 1 Judas gathers together his host. 9 Nicanor is sent against Judas. 16 Judas exhorts his soldiers to constancy. 20 Nicanor is overcome. 27 The Jews gave thanks, after they have put their enemies to flight, dividing part of the spoils unto the fatherless and unto the widows. 30 Timotheus and Bacchides…

  • JESUS SAVES!

    Amazing Grace Priscilla J. Owens, 1829–1907 Sing to the Lord, praise His name; proclaim His salvation day after day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among all peoples. (Psalm 96:2, 3) The heart of the Christian gospel is a person, not a church or a system of doctrinal interpretation. To evangelize is…

  • THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES 14

    1 Maccabees 14 3 Demetrius is overcome of Arsaces. 11 Simon being captain, there is great quietness in Israel. 18 The covenant of friendship with the Romans, and with the people of Sparta is renewed. IN the hundredth, seventy and two year gathered King Demetrius his host, and departed unto Media, to get him help…

  • SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY

    Amazing Grace John W. Peterson, 1921 – 2006Alfred B. Smith, 1916 – 2001 Answer me, O Lord, out of the goodness of Your love; in Your great mercy turn to me. (Psalm 69:16) Charles Haddon Spurgeon, known as the “Prince of Preachers” of the 19th century, labored for more than 20 years on his unrivaled…

  • GOD MOVES IN A MYSTERIOUS WAY

    “Good when He gives, supremely good, nor less when He denies. Even crosses from His sovereign hand are blessings in disguise.”

  • ECCLESIASTICUS 43 & 44

    Ecclesiasticus 43 the sum of the creation of the works of God. THIS high ornament the clear firmament, the beauty of the heaven so glorious to behold, The sun also, a marvelous instrument when it appears, declares, at his going out, the work of the most High. At noon it burns the country, and who…

  • ECCLESIASTICUS 37 & 38

    Ecclesiasticus 37 2 How a man should know friends and counselors. 12 To keep his company that fear God. EVERY friend says, I am a friend unto him also: but there is some friend, which is only a friend in name. Remains there not heaviness unto death, when a companion and friend is turned to…