Tag: 366 Inspirational Hymns

  • HOSANNA, LOUD HOSANNA

    Amazing Grace Jennette Threlfall, 1821–1880 Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest. (Matthew 21:9) The week preceding Easter Sunday is known as Holy or Passion Week. These seven days have been described as the most intense and important week of history.…

  • JESUS PAID IT ALL

    Amazing Grace Elvina M. Hall, 1820–1889 “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord, “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18) It has been stated that all religious systems can be spelled with just two…

  • BURDENS ARE LIFTED AT CALVARY

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by John M. Moore, 1925– Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) Today’s featured hymn was written in 1952 by one of our contemporary song writers, John M. Moore, currently a Baptist pastor and evangelist in Toronto, Canada. The…

  • BENEATH THE CROSS OF JESUS

    Amazing Grace Elizabeth C. Clephane, 1830–1869 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Corinthians 1:18 KJV) There is no neutral ground when we face the cross: Either we accept its atoning work and become a new person,…

  • IN THE CROSS OF CHRIST I GLORY

    Amazing Grace John Bowring, 1792–1872 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. (Galatians 6:14) The cross has been the most significant symbol of the Christian faith throughout church history. It is said that as many…

  • THERE IS A GREEN HILL FAR AWAY

    Amazing Grace Mrs. Cecil Frances Alexander, 1823–1895 Finally Pilate handed Him over to them to be crucified. (John 19:16) The full understanding of the depth of suffering that our Savior endured at Calvary for our redemption is difficult to grasp. When Mrs. Cecil Alexander, one of England’s finest hymn writers, was attempting to explain to…

  • IN THE GARDEN 

    Amazing Grace C. Austin Miles, 1868–1945 Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that He had said these things to her. (John 20:18) It was in 1912 that music publisher Dr. Adam Geibel asked author and composer C. Austin Miles to write a hymn…

  • THERE IS A FOUNTAIN

    Amazing Grace William Cowper, 1731–1800 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13) William Cowper is viewed by some as one of the finest of all English writers. But Cowper’s emotional life was one of great turmoil. At an early age…

  • ROCK OF AGES

    Amazing Grace Augustus M. Toplady, 1740–1778 For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers, that our forefathers were all under the cloud and that they all passed through the sea … they all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual…

  • O SACRED HEAD NOW WOUNDED

    Amazing Grace Attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091–1153Translated into German by Paul Gerhardt, 1607–1676Translated into English by James W. Alexander, 1804–1859 And when they had plaited a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in His right hand; and they bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him, saying, “Hail,…