{"id":6286,"date":"2014-03-24T21:00:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6286"},"modified":"2014-03-24T21:00:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T04:00:23","slug":"lenten-music-monday-2014-come-thou-fount-of-every-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6286","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Music Monday 2014: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to find hymns on which I haven’t blogged but as this Lent is progressing, they’re getting more and more obscure. This is why I was happy to find that “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was mentioned on the list for the lectionary readings from Sunday. (For the two people who are wondering, I’m using Oremus<\/a> for this.)<\/p>\n

Here are the words:<\/p>\n

Come, thou fount of every blessing,
\ntune my heart to sing thy grace;
\nstreams of mercy, never ceasing,
\ncall for songs of loudest praise.
\nTeach me some melodious sonnet,
\nsung by flaming tongues above.
\nPraise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,
\nmount of thy redeeming love.<\/p>\n

Here I raise my Ebenezer;
\nhere by thy great help I’ve come;
\nand I hope, by thy good pleasure,
\nsafely to arrive at home.
\nJesus sought me when a stranger,
\nwandering from the fold of God;
\nhe, to rescue me from danger,
\ninterposed his precious blood.<\/p>\n

O to grace how great a debtor
\ndaily I’m constrained to be!
\nLet thy goodness, like a fetter,
\nbind my wandering heart to thee.
\nProne to wander, Lord, I feel it,
\nprone to leave the God I love;
\nhere’s my heart, O take and seal it,
\nseal it for thy courts above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is a video with Chris Rice singing it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NjfToqk5w5g<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to find hymns on which I haven’t blogged but as this Lent is progressing, they’re getting more and more obscure. This is why I was happy to find that “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing” was mentioned … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,55,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-lenten-music-monday-2014","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1Do","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6287,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6286\/revisions\/6287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}