Emphasis Preaching Journal
On Christ the solid rock I stand
Commentary
Edward Mote was a Baptist pastor in nineteenth-century England, serving for 26 years at Horshem in Sussex. If American Christians know him at all, it is for the hymn he wrote, "My Hope Is Built." There is a story that Mote was so beloved by his congregation that they once offered him the title to the church building. Mote declined, however, saying, "I do not want the chapel, I only want the pulpit; and when I cease to preach Christ, then turn me out of that."
