Art Walk 2013

Marshalltown, Iowa is hosting the annual Art Walk on Thursday, 10/3 from 4:30-7:00 pm. Various downtown businesses will be hosting local artists and their works, along with musicians staged throughout the downtown area. This also happens to be the last day of the Thursday evening Farmers Market on the Courthouse Square, one of my weekly places for evangelism in my home town. Should be a lot of people out and about.

In honor of this event, I've created a witnessing cross just for the occasion: "Lord Jesus....How Great Thou Art!"

The forecast is calling for scattered thunderstorms on Thursday, so all the activities may be cancelled. But if not, and the Lord allows, I hope to be out there with gospel tracts and this newest addition to our witness-cross collection. I'm interested to see how people react, and we pray for conversations that will point others to our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Here are the words to the hymn from which this cross' message is derived:

"How Great Thou Art"
Carl G. Boberg (1859-1940)
Adapted by Stuart K. Hine (1899-1989)

O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
Consider all the *worlds thy hands have made,
I see the stars, I hear the *rolling thunder,
Thy power throughout the universe displayed:

    

Refrain

     Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
     How great thou art! How great thou art!
     Then sings my soul, my Savior God, to thee:
     How great thou art! How great thou art!

When through the woods and forest glades I wander
And hear the birds sing sweetly in the trees,
When I look down from lofty mountain grandeur,
And hear the brook and feel the gentle breeze:

 

(Refrain)

And when I think that God, his Son not sparing,
Sent him to die, I scarce can take it in,
That on the cross, my burden gladly bearing,
He bled and died to take away my sin.

 

(Refrain)

When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation
And take me home, what joy shall fill my heart!
Then I shall bow in humble adoration,
And there proclaim, My God, how great thou art!