Tuesdays with a Twist Blog Hop #628

Welcome to Tuesdays with a Twist #628!

Before we get to the blog hop today - 

during the months of April & May I will be featuring a "flower" post:

5 Fantastic Flowers for Mother's Day

Checkout wonderful seeds at Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

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Or click picture below:

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Also, checkout one of my Bags/Purses available at Zazzle:

Evening Sun Mix Sunflower Tote Bag
by GodsGrowingGarden

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Good Morning and Welcome to another No Rules Party!

We're your hosts & co-hosts 

Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Checkout my amazing "Featured" Pinterest Board

(click HERE to view & follow)

Features!

Each co-host will be sharing her own picks for Features. This gives everyone a better chance of being featured. Be sure to check all of our blogs to see if you were featured! 

My Features this Week are:

1. "Creamy Spring Vegetable Soup" by Comfort Spring Station

2. "Dark Chocolate Scones" by Cindy's On-line Recipe Box

3. "RV Living Retirement Thoughts" by Road Gypsies

If you've been featured we'd love for you to grab a button.

The party starts every Tuesday at 7am EST and will continue until Saturday at 11:59pm.  Feel free to stop back any time and "like" your favorites.  Please visit other blogs if you have a moment. 

Share older posts as well as new ones.  No limit on links!

*Pictures should be your own* 

By linking up you give us permission to use these photos

 (with proper link backs) in our features.   And now for the party!

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Grow your own!
Many wonderful garden products from
 "Mary's Heirloom Seeds"!!
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You're the STAR - Week#1 GARDEN (May 2025)

Grab the tissues - it's pine pollen season!

Thank you again for joining us!

There are many ways to follow me:

Angie @ God's Growing Garden

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Before we continue onto the Linky party I wanted to share from my blog:

Trees #14 - BRANCHES (Part#2 Grafted Branches)

WELCOME to the May 2025 "You're the Star" Blog Hop!

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WELCOME to GARDEN feature week of the May 2025 "You're the STAR" blog hop!
Meet your GARDEN week Hosts 

 
This week is GARDEN feature week
Swing by the GARDEN Hosts blogs:
Angie @ God's Growing Garden
Marci @ Stone Cottage Adventures

This is a month long Linky party featuring YOU!

There will be 4 different features each week and 4 different feature categories.  Just to be clear - this is NOT a themed party - you may link up ANY family-friendly blog posts any day of each month. 
The "theme" occurs in our weekly features:
WEEK#1 GARDEN - gardening, homesteading, recycling, outdoor activities &/or preserving (this can include any type of green living,  repurposed ideas, outdoor concerns, posts relating to farm animals etc all while remaining family friendly)

 (These features were chosen from the April 2025 "You're the Star" blog hop)

Make Your Own Garden Signs by Studio 27 By Jennifer Adams

April Gardenias in Lakeland, Florida by Comfort Spring Station

Planting, Watering, Recording & Heating a Greenhouse by Old New Green Redo

Beauty on My Morning Weekend Walks by Adventures in Weseland

If you've been featured then please grab a STAR button below:

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All Hosts/CoHosts will post this blog hop on every Monday of each week.
Please link up your family friendly blog posts below!
It wouldn't be a linky party with YOU!
(IMPORTANT NOTE: by linking up you understand that you might be featured next month and if so, we will use some of your photos from your post - rest assured - we will always link back to your lovely blog.  We might also share your fantastic posts on social media.  Also, you may link up as many family-friendly posts as you like & YES - other blog hops &/or giveaways are welcome {giveaways and blog hops will NOT be featured though}  Thank You & ENJOY! )

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Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing #139

Welcome to the 139th Old Fashioned Sunday Hymn Sing!

I miss the old hymns that I remember from my childhood - there were no drums, no electric guitar and no mind numbing beat. It was just voices and maybe a piano or an organ. The choir led the congregation in singing - and the words of these hymns are poetic. I realize that there is a need for the modern "seeker oriented" worship music - but it is also necessary to have deeper songs (no offense intended to anyone who prefers the newer church songs).

I decided to have an "Old Fashion Sunday Hymn Sing" once a month on this blog.

I personally do NOT have a great singing voice - I used to play the guitar & piano but my voice is NOT an instrument. That's the great thing about this digital hymn sing, you can warble along without being embarrassed or without offending anyone else.

The hymns that we will be studying are taken from an old hymnal from a Baptist church that is no longer in existence - "The North American Hymnal" published in 1956 by "THE ROGER WILLIAMS PRESS"

I will also try to find a version of the featured hymn on "YouTube" to share with you each month.

Today's featured hymn is "A Gate Ajar for Me" and the author is Lydia O. Baxter.  There was not much personal information about this author - simply that she wrote many hymns for Sunday School and for services.  

Jesus Is.......(Part#3) - THE GATE

(click HERE to view)

I have included a beautiful version of this hymn  (video is below the lyrics).

Enjoy!

Turn with me to number 227 in your hymnals and let's sing:

The Gate Ajar for Me

written by Lydia O Baxter (1809-1874) & composed by S.J. Vail (1818-1884)

1. There is a gate that stands ajar, And through its portals gleaming, A radiance from the Cross afar, The Savior's love revealing.

CHORUS

2.  That gate ajar stands free for all Who seek through it salvation, The rich and poor, the great and small, Of every tribe and nation.

CHORUS

3.   Press onward then, though foes may frown, While mercy's gate is open, Accept the cross, and win the crown, Love's everylasting token.

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4.   Beyond the river's brink we'll lay The cross that here is given, And bear the crown of life away, And love Him more in heaven.

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Chorus

Oh depth of mercy!  Can it be That gate was left ajar for me?

For me......for me?.......Was left ajar for me?

For me.     for me?                      

A special thanks to "SE Samonte" for sharing this with us!

Other Hymns on this blog:

How Firm A Foundation, Ye Saints of the Lord

Draw Thou My Soul, O Christ

I Sing the Praise of Love Unbounded

I Am Praying for You

Saved by Grace

Immortal Love, Forever Full

God Himself Is With Us

Here at Thy Table, Lord

Come To The Savior

O For A Thousand Tongues To Sing

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"Prayer Basics & 8 Ways To Find Answers"