Please feel free to send an email for any questions.
contact@shepherdsgatemission.com
SGM recommends: www.Drjulielarsencrsc.com for Community Relational Soul Care: Restoring God's People to Spiritual Vitality
Liberty University Online Academy, www.liberty.edu/onlineacademy/ (Online homeschooling and high school)
Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA; www.Liberty.edu
Light University-American Association Christian Counselors: www.AACC.net Online school and books, Dr Tim Clinton, president Dr Tim Clinton, Dr Ron Hawkins,The New Christian Counselor Holy Land Photos: www.holylandphotos.org by Dr Carl RasmussenEducation with archeology, pictures, and information about the Bible.
Dr Carl G. Rasmussen; The Zondervan Atlas of the Bible, Grand
Rapids: Zondervan, 2010 The King Is Coming: www.kingiscoming.com
Dr Henry T. Blackaby and Dr. Claude V. King; Experiencing
God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God
Dr Henry T. Blackaby; Created to be God’s Friend SHEPHERDS GATE MISSIONS ONLINE ACADEMY has been closed due to other opportunities to help people. I want to thank all the teachers involved who helped many people get a new start in life. Please see above the recommendations for further schooling.
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online academy had been in existence since 2008. Julie Larsen has been teaching
online literacy and computer classes since 1992. Special to her heart was
teaching the mentally challenged-starting out at a Lutheran school up through
grade eight. Then, in 1998 teaching computer for work skills for all ages and when SGM was formed in 2008 classes were added for the older beginner. All classes had been on an individual basis to meet a person's needs. Any questions email: contact@shepherdsgatemissions.com. New teachers had been added to keep up with the increased enrollment, but there were not enough funds to keep the school going, as all classes were free of charge. Shepherd's Gate Mission's, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (C) 3 public charity corporation and welcomes donations to help support its projects and programs for the needy. Please email and leave a message for any questions, thank you.
Musick Ministry
This site will give the readers information about songs and background information. In the future SGM will have music playing on the web. This fall SGM will have a teacher to give lessons to children.
We are to have psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the LORD. Eph 5:19-20 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs and making melody in yourheart to the LORD; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Col 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the LORD. 1Ch. 16:8-9 Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto him, talk of all his wondrous works. Ps 95:2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. Ps 105:2Sing unto Him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Amazing Grace 1779
It’s hard to shake off a mother’s influence. John Newton’s earliest memories were of his godly mother who, despite fragile health, devoted herself to nurturing his soul. At her knee he memorized Bible passages and hymns. Though she died when he was about seven, he later recalled her tearfulprayers for him.
After her death, John alternated between boarding school and the high seas, wanting to live a good life but nonetheless falling deeper and deeper into sin. Pressed into service with the British Navy, he deserted, was captured, and after two days of suspense, was flogged. His subsequent thoughts vacillated between murder and suicide. “I was capable of anything,” he recalled.
More voyages, dangers, toils, and snares followed. It was a life unrivaled in fiction. Then, on the night of March 9,1748, John, 23, was jolted awake by a brutal storm that descended too suddenly for the crew to foresee. The next day, in great peril, he cried to the Lord. He later wrote, “That tenth of March is a day much remembered by me;and I have never suffered it to pass unnoticed since the year 1748-the Lord came from on high and delivered me out of deep waters.”
The next several years saw slow, halting spiritual growth in John, but in the end he became one of the most powerful evangelical preachers in British history, a powerful foe of slavery, and the author of hundreds of hymns.
Here are some things you may not know about Newton’s most famous hymn. His title for it wasn’t originally “Amazing Grace” but “Faith’s Review and Expectation.” It is based in Newton’s study of 1 Chronicles 17:16-17: “King David . . . said: ‘Who am I, O Lord God? And what is my house, that You have brought me this far? And yet . You have also spoken of Your servant’s house for a great while to come, and have regarded me according to the rank of a man of highdegree . . ..”
And here’s a nearly forgotten verse that Newton added near the end of “Amazing Grace.” The earth shall soon dissolve like snow, the sun forbear to shine; But God, Who called me here below, shall be forever mine.
It Is Well with My Soul 1873
Whenthe great Chicago fire consumed the Windy City in 1871, Horatio G. Spafford, an attorney heavily invested in real estate, lost a fortune. About that time, his only son, age 4, succumbed to scarlet fever. Horatio drowned his grief in work, pouring himself into rebuilding thecity and assisting the 100,000 who had been left homeless.
In November of 1873, he decided to take his wife and daughters to Europe. Horatio was close to D. L. Moody and Ira Sankey, and he wanted to visit their evangelistic meetings in England, than enjoy a vacation.
When an urgent matter detained Horatio in New York, he decided to send his wife, Anna, and their four daughters, Maggie, Tanetta, Annie, and Bessie, on a head. As he saw them settled into a cabin aboard the luxurious French liner Ville du Havre, an uneasefilled his mind, and moved them to a room closer to the bow of the ship. Then he said good-bye. Promising to join them soon.
During the small hours of November 22, 1873, as the Ville du Havreglided over smooth seas, the passengers were jolted from their bunks. The ship had collided with an iron sailing vessel, and water poured in like Niagara. The Ville du Havre tilted dangerously. Screams, Prayers, and oaths merged into a nightmare of unmeasured terror. Passengers clung to posts, tumbled through darkness, and wereswept away by powerful currents of icy ocean. Loved ones fell from each other’s grasp and disappeared into foaming blackness. Within two hours, the mighty ship vanished beneath the waters. The226 fatalities included Maggie, Tanetta, Annie and Bessie. Mrs. Spafford was found nearly unconscious, clinging to a piece of the wreckage. When the 47 survivors landed in Cardiff, Wales, she cabled her husband: “Saved Alone.”
Horatio immediately booked passage to join his wife. Enroute, on a cold December night, the captain called him aside and said, “I believe we are now passing over the place where the Ville du Havrewent down.” Spafford went to his cabin but found it hard to sleep. He said to himself, “It is well; the will of God be done.” He later wrote his famous hymn based on those words. The melody for “It Is Well,” titled VILLE DUHAVRE, written by Philip Bliss who was himself soon to perish, along with his wife, in a terrible train wreck in Ohio.
