{"id":328,"date":"2015-06-23T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/?p=328"},"modified":"2015-06-22T23:23:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T03:23:26","slug":"o-sovereign-god-how-great-your-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/o-sovereign-god-how-great-your-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"O Sovereign God, How Great Your Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hymn1.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"329\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/o-sovereign-god-how-great-your-grace\/hymn1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hymn1.png?fit=1168%2C1166&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1168,1166\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hymn1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hymn1.png?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hymn1.png?fit=640%2C639&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kenpulsmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hymn1.png?resize=640%2C639&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Hymn1\" width=\"640\" height=\"639\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thirty years ago I made <a href=\"https:\/\/kenpulsmusic.com\/hsw001.html\">my first endeavor writing a hymn<\/a>. It \u00a0was prompted by two significant events that God brought into my life in 1985. During that year I began serving God in the music ministry, and as a result, was introduced to the Doctrines of Grace.<\/p>\n<p>On February 10, 1985 I was called as Music Minister at Raven Oaks Baptist Church in Omaha, Nebraska (the name of the church was later changed to Sovereign Grace Baptist Church). During the morning worship service on that day, Pastor Bill Lollar preached from Ephesians 2:8\u20139 as part of a series of messages on \u201cThe Greatest Verses in the Bible.\u201d Bill\u2019s preaching, along with a Wednesday night study through the <em>1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith<\/em> that spring, challenged and deepened my understanding of God\u2019s Word. Bill also encouraged me to read Loraine Boettner\u2019s book <em>The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination<\/em>. After reading Boettner\u2019s book in May and June, I wrote the hymn\u00a0and\u00a0shared it with the church on June 23, 1985. It was a celebration of the truths I was learning and a milestone that would set the course of my ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago I made my first endeavor writing a hymn. It \u00a0was prompted by two significant events that God brought into my life in 1985. During that year I began serving God in the music ministry, and as a result, was introduced to the Doctrines of Grace. 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