I serve a risen Savior
I serve a risen Savior. Alfred Ackley* (1887-1960). Published in Triumphant Service Songs, by the Rodeheaver HallMack Publishing Company in 1934, this modern gospel hymn rapidly became a favorite at evangelistic meetings and campaigns. The music was by Ackley himself. Like many of Ackley’s hymns, it is probably better known from its refrain, ‘He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today!’:
He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today!He walks with me and talks with me along life's narrow way.He lives, he lives, salvation to impart!You ask me how I know he lives? He lives within my heart.
According to Young (1993) the hymn was written ‘following the author’s exchange with a young Jewish man...
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