Of the Week

Artist: Paul Cardall Album: New Life Year: 2014 " God . . . gives life " 1 Timothy 6:13

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow BETWEEN the dark and the daylight,    When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations,    That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me    The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened,    And voices soft and sweet. From my study I see in the lamplight,    Descending the broad hall stair, Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,    And Edith with golden hair. A whisper, and then a silence:    Yet I know by their merry eyes They are plotting and planning together    To take me by surprise. A sudden rush from the stairway,    A sudden raid from the hall! By three doors left unguarded    They enter my castle wall! They climb up into my turret    O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me;    They seem to be everywhere. They almost devour me with kisses,    Their arms about me entwine, Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen

Artist: The Gray Havens Year: 2018 So here we go, like mist and water that's here and gone. But here we'll stay on forever, be back someday. Look, all I know is I believe it's gonna change at the moment when the trumpets [plural?] blow. And all I see— all I see I believe is gonna change inside the walls of eternity. So here we go. So when I stand at that station to movin' on, and I find my step upon the doorway where the lights come from, look, all I know, is I'll be changed in a moment when I take that step, when I'm called back home. No end I'll know. Cuz forever is in my soul. It's in my veins. I think we know that the future's gonna be so bright. And when you turn my way, it's gonna fill my eyes forever. Forever is in my soul. It's in my veins, and it won't let go. "It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: Grace to you, and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace. For God is my witness, how I long after all of you in the tender mercies of Christ Jesus. This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may

Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Use Words:  William Hiley Bathurst Music:  Carl Gotthelf Gläser Singers: Oklahoma Christian University Recorded: September 23, 2011 O FOR a faith that will not shrink Though press'd by many a foe ; That will not tremble on the brink Of poverty or woe : That will not murmur nor complain Beneath the chastening rod ; But in the hour of grief or pain Can lean upon its God : A faith that shines more bright and clear When tempests rage without ; That, when in danger, knows no fear ; In darkness feels no doubt : That bears unmov'd the world's dread frown, Nor heeds its scornful smile ; That sin's wild ocean cannot drown, Nor its soft arts beguile . . . Lord, give me such a faith as this, And then, whate'er may come, I taste even now the hallow'd bliss Of an eternal home. listen here " the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith. And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of