“Oh, to grace how great a debtor daily I’m constrained to be! Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee: Prone to wonder, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here’s my heart, O take and seal it; seal it for thy courts above.” Our journey through […]
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Come Thou Fount Part 1
“Come, thou Fount of every blessing, tune my heart to sing they grace; streams of mercy , never ceasing, call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet, sung by flaming tongues above. Praise the mount – I’m fixed upon it – mount of God’s redeeming love.” Come Thou Fount was written in 1758 […]
You Have No Heart
“You have no heart! You are heartless!” These phrases we often hear in response to someone who has just done or said something that we consider to be quite inhumane or inconsiderate of another human being or beings. The phrase is meant to convey the idea that the human heart is loving, kind, compassionate, and […]
Praying Without Losing Heart
“And he told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, ‘In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man. And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me justice against […]