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Great Hymns Of The Faith - The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth NH 03801 (603) 436-7736. The bulletin is dated February 9th, 2025. Great Hymns Of The Faith The Battle Hymn Of The Republic          To have implicit trust in God's faithful care and protection is never easy in time of danger or strife. Yet even in the midst of the terrible civil ware between the northern and southern states, a remarkable woman named Julia Ward Howe proclaimed her confidence in God's triumphant power in this inspiring text.          Deeply anguished at the growing conflict between the two sections of the country, Mrs. Howe watched the two sections of the country, she watch the troop marching off to war singing "John Brown's Body", a song about a man who had been hanged in his efforts to free the slaves. Julia felt that the catchy camp meeting tune should have better words. In a desire to phrase her own feelings about the dr...
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The Message Of The Cross Conquered

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Rd in Portsmouth NH 03801 (603) 436-7736. The bulletin is dated February 2nd, 2025. The Message Of The Cross Conquered          It is said that when the Moravians began their mission in Greenland, they found the people so untaught that they decided to begin by educating them. The results were so utterly disappointing that they decided to leave.           While waiting for a vessel, one of the missionaries began translating a portion of the Gospels, and thought he would test his translation by reading it aloud. After he read of the suffering and death of Jesus, there was a period of silence. Then the chief rose and asked the missionary to read it again. When he had finished, the chief said:          "What you read, is it true?"          "Yes"          "You say it is true? Then why...
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Great Hymns Of The Faith - A Mighty Fortress Is Our God

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Rd in Portsmouth NH 03801 (603) 436-7736. The bulletin is dated February 2nd, 2025.    Great Hymns Of The Faith A Mighty Fortress Is Our God Martin Luther 1483-1546         This great war song of the Reformation, written by Martin Luther, has heartened many a German army going into battle, and has give courage to many a son of Germany amid the hardships of strange lands. It was a sung every day by Luther and his friends. Before the battle of Leipzig, September 17, 1631. The whole army of Gustavus Adolphus sang the hymn.          The story is still repeated by the Germans of Herkimer County, New York, of John Christian Bush, who settled there with his family of six children and founded the village of Shell's Bush on the afternoon of August 6, 1781, a band of Indians, led by Donald McDonald, a Scotch refugee, attacked the village. Bush, who was worki...
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The Peace Bringer

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  This was copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth New Hampshire 03801 (603) 436-7736 The Peace Bringer          During World War I, a day dawned on the battlefield in northern France. The fog was so thick that no one could see more than a few yards from the trenches. As the fog lifted, it was seen that the Germans had drawn their lines back a little, and the French had gone forward a little, between the two lines stood a lonely farmhouse. As the sun rose, heavy guns began to boom.          Suddenly, on both sides the firing ceased. A strange silence came. There, in the green meadow by the farmhouse, was a little baby, crawling on its hands and knees. It appeared perfectly happy and contented. It laughed as its plucked the dandelions.          NOT A SHOT WAS FIRED          The coming of Baby Jesus brought peace into the world. Peace to tired...
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Great Hymns Of The Faith - At Calvary

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth NH 03801 . (603) 436-7736. The bulletin is dated January 26th, 2025.    Great Hymns Of The Faith At Calvary          Calvary, meaning "the place of the skull", is a place that everyone has heard about and that thousands of Holy Land tourists visit every year. But the significance of the events that took place on this hill nearly two thousand years ago are often not truly realized by many of those who merely view its location. "At Calvary" focuses our attention on the wondrous mercy and grace that Christ demonstrated through His death on the cross. The hymn exalts our Lord for conquering sin and death and bringing salvation to all who will accept Him as redeemer and Lord. The "might gulf" between God and man was bridged with Christ's sacrificial atonement at Calvary.           William R. Newell was a noted evangelist, Bible te...
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Saying "NO" To Calvinism by Donald R Gum

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church  on 472 Ocean Rd in Portsmouth NH 03801 (603) 436-7736 Saying "NO" To Calvinism          "The Lord is not slack concerning his promises, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." ( 2 Peter 3:9 )          If you read that verse and accept it for exactly what it says, you will not be a Calvinist.          If you mediate upon the verse and honestly analyze it, you will see that it refutes Calvinism.          If you will study each word of the verse and consider what it means, you will say "no" to Calvinism.          If you check it out in your Textus Receptus Greek New Testament, you will not find grounds for Calvinism.          If you review the context in which the verse is...
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Great Hymns Of The Faith - "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross"

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  This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Road in Portsmouth NH 03801 - (603) 436-7736 Great Hymns Of The Faith "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross" Isaac Watts 1674-1748          Matthew Arnold declared the greatest Christian hymn in the English language to be "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross." At least it is admittedly the greatest hymn of a great hymn writer. Isaac Watts, the father of modern English Hymnody. He was the son of a deacon in the independent church, who had no sympathy with young Watt's custom of making rhymes and verses when a boy. At the age of eighteen Watts was one day ridiculing some of the poor hymns then sung in the churches, when his father said to him, sarcastically, "Make some yourself then." Accordingly, Watts set himself to writing a hymn, and produced the lines beginning: "Behold the glories of the Lamb". That was the start of his eminent career as a hymn writer.         ...
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