John Newton wrote many hymns over his lifetime. In the collection “John Newtown’s Olney Hymns” there are 348 quoted in three separate sections. We celebrated the 250th anniversary of his most famous, and probably the favorite hymn over the ages in 2023, that being “Amazing Grace.” The Americanized version, the one most of us have…
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His “lovingkindness”
I just started reading Michael Card’s newest book, “John, the Gospel of Wisdom”. It’s his second book on John, the first being “Parable of Joy“, and fifth on the different gospels. Card has a unique way of looking at the gospels, taking you back to walk with the writer to help understand their perspective. In…
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Whatever Happened…
Sometimes a good book hits home. Here are a couple of quotes from one I’ve been working through lately. From the chapter “Grace Alone”, page 119: “(M)any people…use justification theology to excuse their failure to care for others practically. They use knowledge of predestination to excuse their failure to evangelize. They use perseverance as an…
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Pardon me
What a great song this is by Samuel Davies, president of the College of New Jersey, which later became Princeton. GREAT God of wonders! all Thy ways Are matchless, God-like, and divine; But the fair glories of Thy grace More God-like and unrivall’d shine: Who is a pardoning God like Thee? Or who has grace…
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An Easter Prayer
CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION O LORD, I marvel that thou shouldst become incarnate, be crucified, dead, and buried. The sepulchre calls forth my adoring wonder, for it is empty and thou art risen; the four-fold gospel attests it, the living witnesses prove it, my heart’s experience knows it. Give me to die with thee that I…
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A Present Salvation
Here are the closing lines from this Puritan Prayer from The Valley of Vision. What a great way to live! Help me to be in reality before thee as in appearance I am before men, to be religious before I profess religion, to leave the world before I enter the church, to set my affections…
