Tag: Amazing Grace

  • 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.…

  • THE LOVE OF GOD

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Frederick M. Lehman, 1868–1953 The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zephaniah 3:17) Never has God’s eternal love been described more vividly than…

  • IMMORTAL LOVE ~ FOREVER FULL

    Amazing Grace John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807–1892 To know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19) Love is Silence—when your words would hurt.Love is Patience—when your neighbor’s curt.Love is Deafness—when a scandal flows.Love is Thoughtfulness—for others’ woes.Love is Promptness—when stern duty calls.Love is…

  • LOVE DIVINE ALL LOVES EXCELLING

    Amazing Grace Charles Wesley, 1707–1788 This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:9) We must never underestimate the power of love in our human relationships—whether marriages, family, business associations, or friendships. The divine love of…

  • O THE DEEP, DEEP LOVE OF JESUS

    Amazing Grace S. Trevor Francis, 1834–1925 I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. (Ephesians 3:17, 18) Who can fully grasp the dimensions of God’s great love for us? Yet the…