{"id":17873,"date":"2023-02-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17873"},"modified":"2023-02-18T17:02:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T22:02:52","slug":"sunday-singing-let-us-love-and-sing-and-wonder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17873","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XukadR8Jcac?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder,&#8221; sung by the congregation of Metropolitan Tabernacle, London<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The great John Newton (1725-1807) wrote &#8220;Let us love, and sing, and wonder&#8221; in 1774 with six verses. It doesn&#8217;t appear to be a very popular hymn, but it struck a chord with me when I heard a modern arrangement of it several years ago. It&#8217;s a marvelous praise song that doesn&#8217;t focus on our devotion or what I&#8217;m doing to worship the Lord. It focuses on the awesome work of Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Let us love and sing and wonder,<br>let us praise the Savior&#8217;s name!<br>He has hushed the law&#8217;s loud thunder,<br>he has quenched Mount Sinai&#8217;s flame:<br>he has washed us with his blood,<br>he has brought us nigh to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Let us love the Lord who bought us,<br>pitied us when enemies,<br>called us by his grace and taught us,<br>gave us ears and gave us eyes:<br>he has washed us with his blood,<br>he presents our souls to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Let us sing, though fierce temptation<br>threaten hard to bear us down!<br>For the Lord, our strong salvation,<br>holds in view the conqu&#8217;ror&#8217;s crown:<br>he who washed us with his blood<br>soon will bring us home to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 Let us wonder; grace and justice<br>join and point to mercy&#8217;s store;<br>when thro&#8217; grace in Christ our trust is,<br>justice smiles and asks no more:<br>he who washed us with his blood<br>has secured our way to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5 Let us praise, and join the chorus<br>of the saints enthroned on high;<br>here they trusted him before us,<br>now their praises fill the sky:<br>&#8220;You have washed us with your blood;<br>you are worthy, Lamb of God!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Hark! the name of Jesus, sounded<br>Loud, from golden harps above!<br>Lord, we blush, and are confounded,<br>Faint our praises, cold our love!<br>Wash our souls and songs with blood,<br>For by Thee we come to God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great John Newton (1725-1807) wrote &#8220;Let us love, and sing, and wonder&#8221; in 1774 with six verses. It doesn&#8217;t appear to be a very popular hymn, but it struck a chord with me when I heard a modern arrangement of it several years ago. It&#8217;s a marvelous praise song that doesn&#8217;t focus on our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[1254,3999,3966],"class_list":["post-17873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-hymns","tag-john-newton","tag-sunday-singing"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17874,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17873\/revisions\/17874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}