Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,

so that you may be able to prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12 2. This is resistance and reformation on the Fight,

Laugh Feast Network. Thomas Chisholm was born on a farm near Franklin, Kentucky in 1866. Precociously gifted, he began teaching in the local school district

schools when he was just a teen. Later, he served as the editor of his hometown newspaper. He was

dramatically converted to the Christian faith at the age of 26, and very

shortly afterward, moved to Louisville to become the editor and business manager for the state's

Methodist tabloid, the Evangelical and Pentecostal Herald.

Then, in 1903, he was ordained as a minister in the Southern Methodist Church,

pastoring a congregation in Scottsville, Kentucky.

That year, he started a family marrying the love of his life, Catherine Vandevere.

In short order, the happy couple were blessed with two daughters, and their little congregation was thriving under his pastoral care and evangelistic vision.

It seemed that blessing upon blessing attended chisholm at every turn.

Alas, the shadows of affliction would soon descend upon him. He experienced a dramatic decline in his once robust health. After multiple hospitalizations, he was confined to

his sickbed for the better part of two years. Finally, due to that poor health, Chisholm was forced

to retire from the responsibilities and rigorous of the pastorate, but he never really

left the ministry behind, barely able to support himself and provide for his young family

with the meager stipends he earned from intermittent seasonal sales jobs. he nevertheless wrote more than 1,200 hymns and psalm

settings, including all my sins which were many now are gone. Years I spent in sin and folly.

Buried with Christ, my blessed Redeemer.

Bring Christ your broken life at the Father's throne above and living for Jesus.

His aim in writing was always to incorporate as much scripture as possible and to avoid flippant

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