Tag: Amazing Grace

  • AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL

    Amazing Grace Katharine Lee Bates, 1859–1929 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. (Proverbs 14:34) After what I owe to God, nothing should be more dear or more sacred to me than the love and respect I owe to my country.— Jacques Auguste de Thou Each time we join together…

  • O PERFECT LOVE

    Amazing Grace Dorothy B. Gurney, 1858–1932 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. (Ephesians 5:31) A perfect union of selfless and totally committed love, not an indulgent form of physical gratification, is God’s plan for the human race.…

  • HAPPY THE HOME WHEN GOD IS THERE

    Amazing Grace Henry Ware Jr., 1794–1843 … But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. (Joshua 24:15) The beauty of the home is order; the blessing of the home is contentment;The glory of the home is hospitality; the crown of the home is godliness.— Unknown This is the season when our…

  • COME, THOU ALMIGHTY KING

    Amazing Grace Source unknown, c. 1757 Lift up your heads, O you gates; lift them up, you ancient doors, that the King of glory may come in. Who is He, this King of glory? The Lord Almighty—He is the King of glory. (Psalm 24:9, 10) In his book The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W.…

  • PRAISE YE THE TRIUNE GOD!

    Amazing Grace Elizabeth R. Charles, 1828–1896 I will praise Your name for Your love and Your faithfulness, for You have exalted above all things Your name and Your word. (Psalm 138:2) Saints and angels join in praising Thee, the Father, Spirit, Son—Evermore their voices raising to the Eternal Three in One.— J. Montgomery The Sunday…

  • EVEN ME

    Amazing Grace Elizabeth Codner, 1824–1919 He will be like rain falling on a mown field, like showers watering the earth. (Psalm 72:6) The spiritual blessings of a Spirit-filled life are intended for every believer, not just for a favored few. The author of this hymn text was Elizabeth Codner, the wife of an Anglican clergyman.…

  • HOLY SPIRIT, FAITHFUL GUIDE

    Amazing Grace Words and Music by Marcus M. Wells, 1815–1895 I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you. (John 14:18 KJV) One of the Holy Spirit’s ministries is to lead us each day wherever our heavenly Father desires us to best represent Him. When vital decisions must be made, the Holy Spirit…

  • BLESSED QUIETNESS

    Amazing Grace Manie P. Ferguson, 19th century Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only that which is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the…

  • BREATHE ON ME, BREATH OF GOD

    Amazing Grace Edwin Hatch, 1835–1889 As the Father has sent Me, I am sending you. And with that He breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” (John 20:21, 22) The good news of the gospel relates not only to what Christ once did—His death, resurrection, ascension—but to what He presently offers: Forgiveness of…

  • HOLY GHOST, WITH LIGHT DIVINE

    Amazing Grace Andrew Reed, 1787–1862 That the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit. (Romans 8:4) As the earth can produce nothing unless it is fertilized by the sun, so we can do nothing worthwhile for God…