{"id":18530,"date":"2023-07-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18530"},"modified":"2023-07-29T21:54:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-30T01:54:40","slug":"sunday-singing-loved-with-everlasting-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18530","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Singing: Loved with Everlasting Love"},"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=\"I Am His, and He Is Mine (Grace Community Church)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tKjYWGclj5g?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><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the next several weeks, I want to take up the theme of faith in our hymn selections. Many hymns speak of our response to God, the comfort we receive, our gratitude, or our confession, so I want to break our pattern of monthly themes for this continuing topic of our life sustained by faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s hymn is originally by Irish Pastor Wade Robinson (1838-1876). The words in the video above may reflect his original. The words I&#8217;ve copied below are the ones revised by Edmund Clowney of Westminster Seminary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1 Loved with everlasting love,<br>drawn by grace that love to know,<br>Spirit sent from Christ above,<br>thou dost witness it is so.<br>O this full and precious peace<br>from his presence all divine;<br>in a love that cannot cease,<br>I am his and he is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 Heav&#8217;n above is deeper blue,<br>earth around is sweeter green,<br>that which glows in ev&#8217;ry hue<br>Christless eyes have never seen.<br>Birds in song his glories show,<br>flow&#8217;rs with richer beauties shine<br>since I know, as now I know,<br>I am his and he is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 Taste the goodness of the Lord:<br>welcomed home to his embrace,<br>all his love, as blood outpoured,<br>seals the pardon of his grace.<br>Can I doubt his love for me,<br>when I trace that love&#8217;s design?<br>By the cross of Calvary<br>I am his and he is mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4 His forever, only his&#8211;<br>who the Lord and me shall part?<br>Ah, with what a rest of bliss<br>Christ can fill the loving heart.<br>Heav&#8217;n and earth may fade and flee,<br>firstborn light in gloom decline,<br>but while God and I shall be,<br>I am his and he is mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the next several weeks, I want to take up the theme of faith in our hymn selections. Many hymns speak of our response to God, the comfort we receive, our gratitude, or our confession, so I want to break our pattern of monthly themes for this continuing topic of our life sustained by faith. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Singing: Loved with Everlasting Love<\/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":[4820,1254,3966],"class_list":["post-18530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-edmund-clowney","tag-hymns","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\/18530","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=18530"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18532,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18530\/revisions\/18532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}