Standing on the Promises

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess,

For He who promised is faithful.

Hebrews 10:23 

Number 4 on my all-time favorite hymns list is Standing on the Promises.  As a child, I lived in a home where one parent rarely made a promise but always kept it, and the other parent made all kinds of promises and rarely kept their word.  The fact that the Bible said that God keeps His promises meant a great deal to me growing up.

Russel Kelso Carter, who wrote both the words and the music for this hymn, was born in 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland.  An unusually talented person, he was, at various times in his life, an athlete, a Methodist minister, a sheep rancher, an educator, a textbook publisher, a physician, and a hymn writer.

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