“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling” is a Christian hymn by Charles Wesley on Christian perfection. Judging by general repute, it is among Wesley’s finest. Judging by its distribution, it is also among his most successful. Like many hymns, Love Divine is loosely Trinitarian in organization: Christ is invoked in the first stanza as the expression…
English Lyrics There is a redeemerJesus, God’s own SonPrecious Lamb of God, MessiahHoly OneJesus my redeemerName above all namesPrecious Lamb of God, MessiahOh, for sinners slainThank you, oh my fatherFor giving us Your SonAnd leaving Your Spirit‘Til the work on Earth is doneWhen I stand in GloryI will see His faceAnd there I’ll serve my…
English Lyrics Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord!Unnumbered blessings give my spirit voice;tender to me the promise of his word –in God my Saviour shall my heart rejoice.Tell out, my soul, the greatness of his name!Make known his might, the deeds his arm has done;his mercy sure, from age to age the…
Excerpt: “We are settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.”Excerpt: “Radical obedience to Christ is not easy… It’s not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end,…
Excerpts:“When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die.”“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again.”“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.”
English Lyrics The King of love my Shepherd is,Whose goodness faileth never;I nothing lack if I am hisAnd he is mine for ever.Where streams of living water flowMy ransomed soul he leadeth,And where the verdant pastures growWith food celestial feedeth.Perverse and foolish oft I strayed,But yet in love he sought me,And on his shoulder gently…
English Lyrics Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.Angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,kept the folded grave-clothes where Thy body lay.Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou o’er death hast won.Thine be the glory, risen, conqu’ring Son;endless is the vict’ry Thou…
In the book of Romans, chapter 6, Paul reminds the believers in Rome about their union with Christ, saying, “If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his” (v. 5). But what exactly does Paul mean by this? How does…
English Lyrics Just as I am, without one pleaBut that Thy blood was shed for meAnd that Thou bid’st me come to TheeO Lamb of God, I come! I comeJust as I am, though tossed aboutWith many a conflict, many a doubtFighting and fears within withoutO Lamb of God, I come, I comeJust as I…