Verse: Matthew 7:24-25
Hymn: How Firm a Foundation
If you have already mastered singing The B-I-B-L-E with your children, here is a hymn on the Word being completely sufficient for what we need. By Sola Scriptura, we mean that God's Word ALONE is our guiding Rule for faith and practice. We do not need new visions or messages from God. We have His good, true, and complete Word. As you sing, pay attention to the progression of the text.
- Stanza 1 - God's Word is completely sufficient and we need hear NOTHING else than what He has said in the Bible.
- Stanzas 2-4 God speaks directly to us in the first person (Isaiah 41:10; 43:2; Zechariah 13:9)
- Stanza 5 is the Christian's declaration (John 10:27-29; Romans 8:38-39; Hebrews 13:5-6)
Text: Anonymous
- We aren't sure who wrote this text, but it was first put into a hymnal by John Rippon, entitled: A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts' Psalms and Hymns (1787).
- This has been a favorite hymn over the centuries and was sung at the funerals of General Robert E. Lee, President Theodore Roosevelt, and President Woodrow Wilson.
Tune: Traditional American melody FOUNDATION
- originally, this was sung to an English melody
- traditional means that it has been passed down verbally from generation to generation
- the tune is pentatonic ( a common 5-note scale )
- It can be sung as a canon
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