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For God Alone: Renew Our Hearts

And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26) Love divine, all loves excelling, joy of heaven to earth come down. Fix in us thy humble dwelling, all thy faithful mercies crown. Jesus, thou art all compassion, pure, unbounded love thou art; Visit us with thy salvation, enter every trembling heart. Breathe, oh, breathe thy loving Spirit into every troubled breast; Let us all in thee inherit; let us find thy promised rest. Take away the love of sinning; Alpha and Omega be; End of faith, as its beginning, set our hearts at liberty. Come, Almighty to deliver, let us all thy life receive; Suddenly return, and never, nevermore thy temples leave. Thee we would be always blessing, serve thee with thy hosts above, Pray and praise thee without ceasing, glory in thy perfect love. Finish, then, thy new creation; pure and spotless let us be; Let us see thy gr
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For God Alone: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with  fear and trembling stand; P onder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand, Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand.  King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he stood,  Lord of lords, in human vesture, in the body and the blood,  H e will give to all the faithful, H is own self for heav'nly food.  Rank on rank the host of heaven s preads its vanguard on the way, A s the Light of light descendeth from the realms of endless day,  That  the pow'rs of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away.  At his feet the six-winged seraph, cherubim, with sleepless eye,  V eil their faces to the presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry,  "Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Lord Most High!” Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence Church Folk Project College Church in Wheaton www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUdzMtVYlZo Like many ancient texts, Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence stems from diffe
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For God Alone: God's Amazing Grace

We love to sing our songs of Zion, especially with God’s people. Perhaps the most beloved song-of-the-redeemed is John Newton’s Amazing Grace! How Sweet the Sound. In fact, many would call this the world’s most famous and, perhaps, favorite hymn. It is translated into many languages across the globe, printed in some 1300 hymnals, and could be sung with gusto by almost any crowd of people throughout the entire United States at any given moment. It is frequently the hymn of choice for Hollywood film directors in funeral service scenes. Christians and non-Christians alike sing Amazing Grace in times of great joy and celebration, and times of deep sorrow and pain. But, always, the words reassure the believer that it is by God’s amazing grace that we are saved, and we are kept. Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see. ’Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved; How prec
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For God Alone: Give Thanks to God!

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. (Romans 5:1-5) In this passage, the Apostle Paul points us to what Jack MacGorman calls the ‘marvelous consequences of our justification’ in Christ. Like the Apostle Paul, you and I have been tested and stretched in ways we could never have imagined; but, our Shepherd-Savior who is our all in all of everything leads us on our respective journeys. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still water
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For God Alone: Hope in God!

At present, with so much unrest in our world, many yards in our neighborhood are displaying a sign that reads: Hope is not cancelled! In what do you place your hope? We often say things like: I hope you are doing well. Or, tomorrow, I hope to go shopping … or to play golf. Merriam-Webster defines the verb, hope, as follows: to cherish a desire with anticipation : to want something to happen or be true. A second, and archaic meaning is: to trust. As a noun, hope is defined as: desire accompanied by expectation of or belief in fulfillment. For the Christian, hope is found in the eternal God alone. In Bible study class this past Sunday, we heard an excellent lesson on reverencing the name of God:  You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain. (Exodus 20:7) Our Bible study teacher reminded her listeners via ZOOM of the many names of God: Jehovah Jireh (The Lord will provide); Jehovah Rapha (T
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