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Text:The Solid Rock
Author:Edward Mote
Tune:THE SOLID ROCK
Arranger:Johnetta Johnson Page
Arranger:Jonathan Cole Dow
Composer:William B. Bradbury

182. The Solid Rock

1 My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness.
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
but wholly lean on Jesus' name.

Refrain:
On Christ the solid rock I stand,
all other ground is sinking sand,
all other ground is sinking sand.

2 When darkness veils his lovely face,
I rest on his unchanging grace.
In every high and stormy gale,
my anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain]

3 His oath, his covenant, his blood,
support me in the whelming flood.
When all around my soul gives way,
he then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain]

4 When he shall come with trumpet sound,
O may I then in him be found.
Dressed in his righteousness alone,
faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain]

Text Information
First Line: My hope is built on nothing less
Title: The Solid Rock
Author: Edward Mote
Refrain First Line: On Christ the solid rock I stand
Meter: LM with Refrain
Language: English
Publication Date: 2007
Topic: Order of Service: Response to the Word; Advent: Second; Burdens (11 more...)
Tune Information
Name: THE SOLID ROCK
Composer: William B. Bradbury
Arranger: Johnetta Johnson Page
Arranger: Jonathan Cole Dow
Meter: LM with Refrain
Key: D Major
Copyright: Arr. © 2007 Abingdon Press, admin. by The Copyright Co.



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