Old Songs for a New Year

 As I have been reflecting on my life and our churches' life and all that has gone on in the past year in our world, I have been thinking about that songs that I sang growing up and all of the meaning that they have.  As I thought about this I thought I would occasionally share one of these songs' lyrics as a way to encourage you and remind us all that our faith is a faith that endures through time and circumstance because the One in whom our faith is placed does not change.  

The Solid Rock (text: Edward Mote)

My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus name.

When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace;

In every high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, His covenant, His blood, support me in the whelming flood;

When all around my soul gives way, he then is all my hope and stay.

When He shall come with trumpet sound, O may I then in Him be found: 

Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne.

Chorus: On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand.

All other ground is sinking sand.