Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

ASSURANCE

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
O, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Refrain
This is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long;
this is my story, this is my song,
praising my Savior all the day long.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest;
watching and waiting, looking above,
filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

Refrain

WORDS: Fanny Crosby (1873)
MUSIC: Phoebe Palmer Knapp (1873) quoting “Jesu, Joy” of Man’s Desiring” by J.S. Bach (1715). Arrangement by John Ness Beck.
© Beckenhorst Press, 1980.

WILL THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN

Refrain
Will the circle be unbroken by and by, Lord, by and by?
There’s a better home a-waiting if we try, Lord, if we try.

I was singing with my sisters (and my brothers)
I was singing with my friends
And we all can sing together,
‘Cause the circle never ends.

Refrain

I was born down in the valley
Where the sun refuse’ to shine
But I’m climbing up to the highland,
Gonna make that mountain mine!

Refrain

TEXT: © 1988 by authors Betsy Rose, Cathy Winter, and Marcia Taylor.
MUSIC: Traditional Appalachian. Setting by J. David Moore.
© 2011, 2016 by Fresh Ayre Music. All rights reserved.