We sing “Sweet Hour of Prayer” and are content with 5-10 minutes.
We sing “Onward Christian Soldier” and wait to be drafted into His service.
We sing “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing” and don’t use the one we have.
We sing “There Shall be Showers of Blessings” but do not come when it rains.
We sing “Blest Be The Tie That Binds” and let the least little offense sever it.
We sing “Serve the Lord With Gladness” and gripe about all we have to do.
We sing “The Whole Wide World For Jesus” and never invite our next door neighbor.
We sing “Cast Thy Burden on the Lord” and worry ourselves into nervous breakdowns.
We sing “We’re Marching to Zion” but fail to march to worship or Sunday School.
We sing “I Love to Tell the Story” and never mention it all.

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There are many special songs and hymns associated with Easter. Songs like “Jesus Christ is Risen Today” and “I am the Resurrection and the Life” fill the air with the celebration of Easter. Get your youth group together to do an Easter caroling party.

Share your songs with shut-ins, nursing homes, hospitals, and anyone else you wish to bless! For public venues, be sure to get permission first.

Find students or adults who play musical instruments to go with you, too!

You can even bake and decorate a batch of Easter cookies to give your listeners!

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The grave of Fanny Crosby, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has a simple marker that reads, “Aunt Fanny — She Hath Done What She Could.”

Fanny Crosby was blind from six weeks of age because of a mistreatment by a man claiming to be a doctor. Yet God used her to write more than 9000 hymns such as: “Blessed Assurance; All The Way My Saviour Leads Me; I Am Thine O Lord; Jesus Keep Me Near The Cross; Praise Him, Praise Him; Rescue The Perishing; To God Be The Glory;” and “Tell Me The Story Of Jesus,” to name a few.

Although blind, she was the guest of six presidents and a personal friend to Grover Cleveland. Her 9000 hymns were to set to music by every popular American tunesmith of the nineteenth century and still bless the Church today.

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As little children we would dream of Christmas morn
and all the gifts and toys we knew we’d find.
But we never realized a Baby born one blessed night
Gave us the greatest gift of our lives…
WE are the reason that He gave His life;
We are the reason that He suffered and died.
To a world that was lost He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live.

As the years went by we learned more about gifts–
The giving of ourselves and what that means.
On a dark and cloudy day a Man hung crying in the rain,
Because of love–because of love.
WE are the reason that He gave His life;
We are the reason that He suffered and died.
To a world that was lost He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live.

I’ve finally found a reason for living;
It’s in giving every part of my heart to Him.
In all that I do, every word that I say
I’ll be giving my all just for Him…for Him…
WE are the reason that He gave His life;
We are the reason that He suffered and died.
To a world that was lost He gave all He could give
To show us the reason to live…
He is my reason to live!

Words and Music by David Meece

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BIBLE RAP by Nancy Minsky

Emphasize capital words in dark print.
Accentuate rhythm and recite to strong rap rhythm.

He SITS enTHRONED upon the CIRcle of the EARTH.
He’s BEEN in POWer since He GAVE life BIRTH.
The SOV ereign LORD He REIGNS in POWER,
AWAIT ing the DAY of His SU PER POWER.
The LORD is IN His holy TEM ple with MIRTH.
Be SIL ent be FORE Him ALL the EARTH.

He SITS enTHRONED upon the CIRcle of the EARTH.
He’s BEEN in POWer since He GAVE life BIRTH.
The SOV ereign LORD He REIGNS in POWER,
AWAIT ing the DAY of His SU PER POWER.
The LORD is IN His holy TEM ple with MIRTH.
Be SIL ent be FORE Him ALL the EARTH.

“The lord has established His throne in the heavens; and His sovereignty rules over all.” Psalm 103:19

Know the Word!

Source:
© 2005 Nancy Minsky’s Christian Drama Anthology
© 2005 Nancy Minsky’s Christian Music Anthology
Minsky Ministries, P.O. Box 42118, Savannah GA 31409 USA
nancy@minsky.org www.musicaldrama.org

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Psalm 90:14-15 “Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all of our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.”

Floods of sorrow and hardship that would have drowned a lesser soul, released a song of hope and Christian Joy in the heart of reverend Luther Burgess Bridgers. During the early years if his ministry God richly blessed him and his wife and three precious boys were born into the family. In 1910, his popularity was growing and he received and accepted an invitation to conduct a two-week series of evangelistic services in another state. Leaving his family to the safe-keeping of his wife’s immediate relatives, he kissed them goodbye and left. Two glorious weeks later, the services closed and many a sinner was converted and many a saint was strengthened. He was wonderfully used by God and was at the peak of popularity,,, then that very night, he received a phone call. A disastous fire had completely consumed the house of his father in law and taken the lives of his wife and his three sons. It was at this time that he wrote the words and tune to a song very familiar to us today…

There’s within my heart a melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low
Fear not I am with thee, peace be still
In all of life’s ebb and flow.

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go.

The third stanza pointed to the momentary times of hardship, but he last looked to an eternal future.

Though sometimes he leads through waters deep,
Trials fall across the way,
Though sometimes the paths seem rough and steep
See his footprints all the way.

Soon he’s coming back to welcome me
Far beyond the starry sky
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown
I shall reign with him on high!

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Sweetest name I know,
Fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go.

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