Come Thou Fount of every blessing Tune my heart to sing Thy praise Streams of mercy, never ceasing Call for songs of loudest praise Teach me some melodious sonnet Sung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it Mount of Thy redeeming love

Here I raise my Ebenezer, Hither by Thy help I’m come And I hope, by Thy good pleasure Safely to arrive at home. Jesus sought me when a stranger Wandering form the fold of God, He, to rescue me from danger, Interposed His precious blood

O to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be! Let that grace now like a fetter Bind my wandering heart to Thee Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love, Here’s my heart, Lord take and seal it, Seal it for Thy courts above.

O come, O come, Emmanuel And ransom captive Israel That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appear Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel.

O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer Our spirits by Thine advent here Disperse the gloomy clouds of night And death's dark shadows put to flight. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel Shall come to thee, O Israel.

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God has to wrestle us rather than comfort us into a transformed life. ~ Tim Keller

In this world you will have trouble…

But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. ~ John 16:33

I will lead her into the wilderness…

But there I will speak tenderly to her. ~ Hosea 2:14

Weeping lasts for the night…

But joy comes in the morning. ~ Psalm 30:5

I tell you the truth, you shall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man. ~ John 1:51

For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. ~ Matthew 16:33 (ESV)