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A Pondering on the Word Remain

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I do a hymn study on Sundays, I have to admit, the word remain is proving to be elusive   You don’t find many, if any, hymns with the word remain in them.   I did find a scripture song that had the word remains in it, but it’s so new the copying the lyrics here could be problematic.  So nix that idea eh?


I got to thinking, why do I post about hymns?  It’s like, what’s the point?  There are times I wonder about not posting them, but then I think about the stories of faith that I would miss, the stories of people who have gone on before, jotting down their thoughts about the Lord, and how we can praise, honour, and adore him.  How we learn more about God in the words that we sing.

I want the history to remain with us.  To not be forgotten.  
It’s important to learn from those who have gone on before, you know?

Doing a hymn study, is the keeping on on the faith.
It’s a way to persevere our history.
A way to build lasting bridges.
Some hymns have endured the test of time.
Other hymns being not, not abiding.

Admittedly, there is a side benefit to me doing a hymn study weekly,
It’s gives me a song of praise that runs through my head most of the week.
Calling me back to God when I feel pushed about my life.
It’s a way God gives me to survive the hustle of life.

So what do you say?
Shall I persist with the sharing of the hymns of faith?
To continue my delving into history?
The musical history of the church?

I think I shall.  
It’s a joy bringer to my soul.
And that’s worth something don’t you think?

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Hymn Study: Speak, O Lord

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Oh… A long while back now.. before I was married, I went to a women’s conference in the States.  I had a great time but it was pre-tablet days and by the end of the conference I was going batty.  Too much sitting, not enough doing.  It was a great conference for all that.

At the conference I was introduced to The Getty’s.  Oh.. their music just flooded my soul with energy and praise to God. 


Anyways, when I was thinking what in the world can I do for truth, I couldn’t think of a single hymn I do for truth, and then I remembered this song by the Getty’s.

Written as a song for your pastor as he presents God’s word, and for people as they hear the word of the Lord presented to them.

Lyrics  (source)

“Speak, O Lord, as we come to You
To receive the food of Your Holy Word.
Take Your truth, plant it deep in us;
Shape and fashion us in Your likeness,
That the light of Christ might be seen today
In our acts of love and our deeds of faith.
Speak, O Lord, and fulfill in us
All Your purposes for Your glory.

Teach us, Lord, full obedience,
Holy reverence, true humility;
Test our thoughts and our attitudes
In the radiance of Your purity.
Cause our faith to rise; cause our eyes to see
Your majestic love and authority.
Words of pow’r that can never fail—
Let their truth prevail over unbelief.

Speak, O Lord, and renew our minds;
Help us grasp the heights of Your plans for us—
Truths unchanged from the dawn of time
That will echo down through eternity.
And by grace we’ll stand on Your promises,
And by faith we’ll walk as You walk with us.
Speak, O Lord, till Your church is built
And the earth is filled with Your glory.”

And see, I have a song filled with the word truth.. awesome eh? 🙂 

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Hymn Study: Come, Now is the Time to Worship

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Worship is the first word of the October write 31 days challenge.  I had a hoot last year doing this so I thought I’d try it again this year.  I might try to do all hymns…but doubt that will work.  🙂  But this first word had this song immediately running through my head, so I figured I’d share it with you.  🙂



Come, Now Is The Time To Worship”

Come, now is the time to worship.
Come, now is the time to give your heart.
Come, just as you are, to worship.
Come, just as you are, before your God.
Come.

One day every tongue will confess
You are God.
One day every knee will bow.
Still the greatest treasure remains for those
Who gladly choose you now.

Come, now is the time to worship.
Come, now is the time to give your heart.
Oh, come. Just as you are to worship.
Come just as you are before your God.
Come.

One day every tongue will confess
You are God.
One day every knee will bow.
Still the greatest treasure remains for those
who gladly choose you now.

[Repeat]

Come, now is the time to worship.
Come, now is the time to give your heart.
Come, just as you are to worship.
Come, just as you are before your God.
Come.

Oh, come. Oh, come. Oh, come.
Worship the Lord. Oh, come.

Come, come, come…

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31 Days of October! Free Writes!

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So… 

It’s October.. pretty cool huh?  Here in Ontario we are starting to see the trees turn colour, the nights are getting colder and the days brisk.  It’s good weather we are having.

AND.. it’s time for the 31 days of October.  Some folks are writing on one topic for the month, others are responding to prompts.   BUT we are all aiming to write every day for the whole month of October.

I have chosen to do a month of writing prompts.  🙂  I find prompts to be fun, and trying to figure out how to write on something for a whole month had me completely stumped. 

 If you want to join up, here’s the linky.

  1. worship: Come Now is the Time To Worship
  2. tell: Tell, a poem of relationships.
  3. create: Create in Me A Clean Heart, O God
  4. hope: My Hope.
  5. trust: Trust.
  6. FMF prompt: Owning Your Own Story.
  7. hold: Hold, as from scripture.
  8. Truth: Speak O Lord.
  9. plan: Plan, A Thanksgiving Meal.
  10. listen: Listen, Listen my Child.
  11. remember: Always Remember.
  12. write: I Just Gotta Write.
  13. FMF prompt: Invite: Something should Change.
  14. try: Try It, Just Try It.
  15. remain: A Pondering on the Word Remain.
  16. read: I Read
  17. grow: This Garden Grows
  18. share: Share, it’s a Thing to Learn.
  19. brave: Today I was Brave
  20. FMF Prompt: Have you discovered this?
  21. Give: The Flip-Side of Giving.
  22. Light: Send the Light.
  23. work:
  24. revise:
  25. because:
  26. change:
  27. FMF Prompt:
  28. Connect: Walking Through The World.
  29. Follow:
  30. Refine:
  31. Rest:

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Don’t Pick Fights Over Little Things

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Romans 14: 1-12 is our reading today. 


As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions.
Oh… in today’s society, how are this is eh?   To have someone new come to church and not want to argue with them over their faith?   Paul is clear here… don’t argue over opinions with someone weak in the faith.    What should you do then?  

2 One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. 3 Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. 4 Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.
This lack of arguing with them stems from this: not passing judgement on each other.  The weaker not to judge the stronger, the stronger in the faith to not judge the weaker.   

5 One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. 6 The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord. The one who eats, eats in honor of the Lord, since he gives thanks to God, while the one who abstains, abstains in honor of the Lord and gives thanks to God. 7 For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.
One person says Saturday is a day of rest and worship, another says “Sundays in the day to rest and worship”.  Honestly… does it matter?   Is the person involved intent on worshipping the Lord?   Then let it be.  It’s shouldn’t be a bone of contention.   Honour the Lord.  Give thanks to him.   Do you see?  It’s not salvation issues Paul is talking about.. it’s just stuff.. like should a sanctuary be carpeted, should you use praise and worship or only hymns.   The thing is.. be convinced in your own mind.. but don’t pick fights with people or judge or despise them over it.   That’s not our place.  It isn’t.  

8 For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord’s. 9 For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
10 Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; 11 for it is written,

“As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me,
    and every tongue shall confess to God.”
12 So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.
The question to us is this…are we aware that living or dying.. we are to do it to the Lord.  We are to hold us ourselves accountable to the Lord, not to each other.. to the LORD.  That’s the end result of it all. 
What say you?


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Oh This Music, Just Floods My Soul

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I don’t know about you but oh.. music can just flood my soul. 

Old hymns filled with doctrine, teaching me about God as it lifts my soul toward heavens in praise and worship of the one I serve.    I suppose that’s one of the reasons why I post a hymn almost every week.  A song will catch my heart and then I need to share with others. 🙂  Finding out the history, learning of faithful men and women who have gone on before, writing down words to lift and cheer, to inspire our praise and worship of the living Lord.   This is our Christian history.


Newer songs.  Ah you got to admit, some of them are sappy, some of them are solid.. oh .. so solid.  Different words that convey thoughts of old, but stated differently that strike a cord of awe and understanding.   Songs that make me want to dance and move and show the Lord my desire to give him praise and honour.

Now granted, I love more than hymns and praise & worship music, I also love me some jazz, and blues, and big band music, country and western and gasp… hubby’s fav.. rock!   But this music makes me tap my toes, and sing out loud.  BUT it never floods my soul like music meant to lift me up to God in worship of him.

What music floods your soul?

This is one of my favourite hymns.   Tell me yours eh?

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Hymn Study: We Praise Thee O God Our Redeemer

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 Lyrics: 

We praise Thee, O God, our Redeemer, creator,
In grateful devotion our tribute we bring;
We lay it before Thee, we kneel and adore Thee,
We bless Thy holy name, glad praises we sing.

We worship Thee, God of our fathers, we bless Thee;
Through life’s storm and tempest our guide have Thou been;
When perils overtake us, escape Thou will make us,
And with Thy help, O Lord, our battles we win.

With voices united our praises we offer,
To Thee, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise.
Thy strong arm will guide us, our God is beside us,
To Thee, our great Redeemer, forever be praise.
 Thy love Thou didst show us, Thine only Son sending,
Who came as a babe and whose bed was a stall,
His blest life He gave us and then died to save us;
We praise Thee, O Lord, for Thy gift to us all.

 Written by Julia Cory on the behest of Archer Gibson.  Gibson was the organist at the church that Cory’s family attended in New York.  Gibson wanted new words to a popular tune (we gather together).  It took her about two weeks to come up with the original first three stanzas, she added the fourth for Christmas. 

She was an active member of her church all her life, working actively in her community as well.  

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