The Internet Archive is a bargain, but we need your help. I know we could charge money, but then we couldn’t achieve our mission: a free library for the whole internet. To make information more reliable and permanent. For 22 years, my dream has been to build the library of everything and make it available to everyone. But we still need to pay for servers and staff. We’re dedicated to reader privacy so we never track you. We have only 150 staff but run one of the world’s top websites. All we need is the price of a paperback book to sustain a library you can trust. Right now, a generous supporter will match your donation 2-to-1, so you can triple your impact. If everyone chips in $5, we can end this fundraiser today. Most can’t afford to give, but we hope you can. Your $5 becomes $15!ĭear Internet Archive Supporter, I ask only once a year: please help the Internet Archive today. But it has perhaps branded me as an old man before my time.Donor challenge: Your generous donation will be matched 2-to-1 right now. Now I’m finding it gets used all over the world, by all sorts of churches it seems to be as accessible to a traditional church as it is to a house church, and I’m excited by that. It just makes his sacrifice all the more personal, all the more amazing, and all the more humbling.Īs I was thinking through this, I just began to sing the melody, and it flowed in the sort of way that makes you think you’ve pinched it from somewhere! So the melody was pretty instant, but the words took quite a bit of time, reworking things, trying to make every line as strong as I could. And what was my part in it? Not only was it my sin that put him there, but if I’d lived at that time, it would probably have been me in that crowd, shouting with everyone else ‘crucify him’. Nevertheless, I’d been meditating on the cross, and in particular what it cost the Father to give up his beloved Son to a torturous death on a cross. But I don’t go home at the end of a busy day and put on a hymns album! So I don’t think of hymns as where I’m at musically at all! But I distinctly remember getting this feeling one day that I was going to write a hymn! Now, like most people, I am familiar with hymns – they form part of my church background, and I love the truth contained in many of them. I’d already written quite a few songs for worship, but all in a more contemporary worship style, drawing from my own musical background. Writing this song was an unusual experience for me.
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