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Sunday, February 18. 2024

Why did God lay me low?

It is Lent. This hymn/praise song was new to me recently, by John Newton (who wrote Amazing Grace). I feel it is powerful and tough.

Posted by Bird Dog in Religion at 07:15 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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A beautiful hymn. Thanks for sharing this.
#1 Jimmo (Link) on 2022-02-27 17:52 (Reply)
Amen, Bird Dog
#2 ManhattanDaughter on 2022-02-27 18:19 (Reply)
Greenwald has views on the hymns to Satan that saturate the airwaves.

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/war-propaganda-about-ukraine-becoming?utm_source=url
#3 bilejones on 2022-02-27 19:07 (Reply)
Powerful. I had never heard these lyrics. A good lead-in to Lent, eh? I think I will play it frequently this year for that season. At about the 2:00 mark it was very much my experience first reading The Screwtape Letters as a young Christian. I avoid such confrontations now, to my shame.
#4 Assistant Village Idiot on 2022-02-27 21:05 (Reply)
Thank you for this sir. I had never heard it. But it is so true, no?
#5 Daveyboy (Link) on 2022-02-28 07:17 (Reply)
Congregational singing of hymns can be emotionally powerful. This is one of those hymns which move me deeply, and which I think is a mutual encouragement to those who seek His face.
#6 John Venlet (Link) on 2022-02-28 08:19 (Reply)
I serve as an Interim Pastor in a church in Heber Springs, AR. Upon reading your original post on "I Asked The Lord That I Might Grow", I shared it with our choir leader & he led our choir in a great version of it on April 2. It is a beautiful song, thanks for calling it to our attention. And note that not only was Newton a slaver, he actually served as a slave for almost 3 years.
#7 Emil Turner on 2022-04-11 19:41 (Reply)
When I was in collete, I prayed that I would be wise. I'm regretting that now.
#8 snopercod on 2022-04-11 20:36 (Reply)
Great and powerful lyrics. However the song is much much too slooooow for me. Speed it up about two times. I found myself reading the lyrics and then going to get a cup of coffee while the song snail paced along.
#9 ConservativeCA (Link) on 2022-04-12 08:15 (Reply)
I began listening to this moving hymn and recognized the melody immediately as the folk song The River is Wide No idea that it originated as hymn. One more reason I'm a devoted Maggie's Farm reader (and American Digest, too). Here's a link to the Kingston Trio singing The River is Wide

https://music.amazon.com/search/river+is+wide+kingston+trio?filter=IsLibrary%7Cfalse&sc=none
#10 SallyO on 2022-04-12 12:39 (Reply)
I knew I'd heard the melody before, but couldn't place it. Here is The Water is Wide" by the Seekers, from their farewell tour. I really miss them.
#10.1 snopercod on 2022-04-15 19:17 (Reply)
It is a powerful hymn and now I recall. First heard it during a Promise Keepers meet at Mile High in 1996 when Maranatha Praise band was covering most of the music. Again in October of 97’ during the Stand in the Gap event. What coach Bill McCartney started was a great thing for our Christian faith. But it has some how managed to lose the traction.
Something happened which has passed my realizations.

I think that’s where I first heard it anyway. Those two were the only PK events I ever attended.
#11 Franknbean on 2022-04-12 17:29 (Reply)

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