Experiencing the Manifold Grace of God
"When Adam and Eve fell and chose to make themselves, rather than God, the center of their life, the effect was not only to put them out of fellowship with God, but also out of fellowship with each other." Broken fellowship with God always results in broken fellowship with others. We must get off the [...]
"Brokenness, however, is but the beginning of revival. Revival itself is being absolutely filled to overflowing with the Holy Spirit, and that is victorious living."Roy Hession Are we being continually filled with the Holy Spirit? "Revival is when we can say yes at any moment of the day." How is this even possible? We know [...]
“Revival is just the life of the Lord Jesus poured into human hearts."Roy Hession "Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. His power is boundless. And we, on our part, have only to get into a right relationship with Him, and we shall see His power being demonstrated in [...]
As I sit here in the Atlanta airport, I can’t believe that one week from today is Thanksgiving, 2021! It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating the holidays amidst a tumultuous 2020, anxiously awaiting a new year. 2021 hasn’t been much different, although we have returned to a semblance of normality. What will 2022 [...]
This poem written by English country clergyman Robert Herrick in the 17th century, was put to beautiful music by John Rutter 3 centuries later. It so beautifully expresses the heart from which we look upon this Christmas Day, that I had to include the words for you here. What an amazing season of Advent! We [...]
How do you capture the wind on the water? How do you count all the stars in the sky? How can you measure the love of a mother? Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore Him. Seraphim round Him their vigil will keep. Nations proclaim [...]
This worshipful carol was written by Christina Rossetti in the 1800's. So many of these Advent hymns were written in the 1800's and earlier. If you read Sunday’s post, you got a glimpse into what life was like in England back then. Somehow, these older hymns speak louder to me knowing the hardships most people [...]
"Joy to the World" by Isaac Watts is known as "the accidental Christmas carol" (Greg Foister). Watts had originally included it as part of a book of poetry in 1719. In this collection, he wrote "Joy to the World" as an adaptation of Psalm 98. Over 100 years later, composer Lowell Mason put the words [...]
“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is one of the oldest Advent hymns. Dating back to the 15th or 16th century, the author is unknown. It was written in England and sung for 400 years before it was officially published in 1815. Knowing the Old English meaning of this old song, along with the hardships people [...]
The famous American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, penned these words out of great personal tragedy. Life was good in 1831 when at the age of 24, Henry married his childhood sweetheart Mary Storer Potter. He was offered a job as a professor at Harvard but had to study abroad for a year before he got [...]
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