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What is God’s Name? Summary of Chapter 2 of God of All Comfort by Hannah Whitall Smith
Image: The light shined into the darkness… In Chapter 1, Hannah Whitall Smith explained that she believes Christians do not experience comfort from God because they do not know enough about Him. So in Chapter 2, she teaches us about the name of God. The chapter is entitled, “What is His Name?” In Exodus 3,…
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God of All Comfort by Hanah Whitall Smith Ch 1 Summary
In Chapter 1 of God of All Comfort, Hannah Whitall Smith explains why she wrote the book. She says that she believes that the Christian life is supposed to be full of comfort, but that many Christians do not experience that comfort, but instead are plagued by doubts and fears – which can leave them…
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Prayer: The Breath of Faith
In Volume 2 Part 1 of The Christian in Complete Armor, which is about the shield of faith, William Gurnall lists the properties of true faith as being 1) obediential 2) prayerful and 3) uniform. In the section about the property of faith being prayerful, Gurnall writes that “Prayer, it is the child of faith;…
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“Altogether Lovely” by George F. Root
Hymnal Page Scan: Altogether Lovely Audio Recording: 1 Beautiful the fields beyond the river,Glorious the thousands gathered there,But who in Heav’n so full of grace and glory,Who with Him, our Savior, can compare? Refrain:Oh, He is the chief among ten thousand;Roll His praise in joyful waves along;For altogether, altogether lovely,Shall forever be our happy song.…
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“All My Lifelong” by Josephine Pollard
Hymnal Page Scan: The Gospel Message in Song (Revised and Enlarged) page 175 | Hymnary.org Audio Recording: 1 All my life long have my steps been attendedSurely by One who regarded my ways;Tenderly watched over, sweetly befriended,Blessings have followed my nights and my days.Tears have been quenched in the sunshine of gladness,Anthems of sorrow been…
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“Jesus, I Come to Thee Longing for Rest” by Fanny Crosby
1 Jesus, I come to thee,Longing for rest;Fold thou thy weary childSafe to thy breast. Chorus:Rocked on a stormy sea,Oh, be not far from me.Lord, let me cling to thee,Only to thee. 2 Jesus, I come to thee,Hear thou my cry;Save, or I perish, Lord,Save or I die. [Chorus] 3 Now let the rolling wavesBend…
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“Holy, Holy, Holy”
The hymn “Holy, Holy, Holy” written by Reginald Heber in 1826, is a hymn of praise to God for His holiness. It references the scenes described in Isaiah 6:3 and Revelation 4:8, where a song of praise is sung to God in heaven. In his commentary of Isaiah 6, Matthew Henry notes that, “Praising God…
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Faith: The Eye of the Soul
In my first post about faith, we talked about how faith involves 3 ingredients – knowledge, belief, and trust. Faith begins with hearing about God through the Bible. Then the mind goes on to believe that this knowledge is true. And then we place our trust in Christ as our Savior. There are a lot…
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What is Faith? Knowledge, Belief, and Trust
I am calling this website “Learning to Live by Faith” because that is what God is teaching me daily how to do. In this world, we are supposed to “walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Cor. 5:7) But what is faith? There are a lot of definitions of faith and a lot of things…
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The Doxology
One important image from the Bible that you will see in a lot of hymns is the image of all God’s creation praising Him. The angels and saints praise God from heaven and we join in that chorus of praise from earth. A hymn that uses this imagery is the Doxology written by Thomas Ken:…
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