Lord, for the Gift of Children




CGrace:528 Key:E-flat BH91:508 Key:E-flat   
Tune:NYLAND

Author & Source Links 
Duane Blakley

Composer & Source Links 
Traditional Finnish melody
harm. David Evans



Tune Helps

Helen Keller

I believe every child has hidden away somewhere in his being, noble capacities which may be quickened and developed if we go about it in...

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Now this is the commandment—the statutes and the ordinances—that the Lord your God charged me to teach you to observe in the land that you are about to cross into and occupy, so that you and your children...

Deuteronomy 6:6-9

Keep these words that I am commanding you today in your heart. Recite them to your children and talk about them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you rise. Bind...

Galatians 5:1-26

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Listen! I, Paul, am telling you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to...

Galatians 5:13-25

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment...

Galatians 5:22-23

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things...

Galatians 5:22-26

By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions...

Proverbs 22:6

Train children in the right way, and when old, they will not stray...

Psalm 126:1-6

When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great...

Psalm 126:3

The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced...

Psalm 126:3-5

The Lord has done great things for us, and we rejoiced. Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like the watercourses in the Negeb. May those who sow in tears reap with shouts of joy...

Psalm 127:3

Sons are indeed a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward...