So many good old songs. You can read about the hymn’s author, Elvina M. Hall here on Robert Cottrill’s excellent Wordwise Hymns blog. I like the clear testimony of substitutionary atonement. I like the clear references to hope beyond the grave. Death and the eternal hope are not frequent themes in contemporary songs. Which is …
Jon Acuff has a post on song lyrics that result in those who sing them “Overcommitting to God in Worship” at Stuff Christians Like: You need a song that expresses how much you are committed to the Lord. When…hark! What does that lady worship leader start singing? Oh, these words are just right; they express …
Jared Wilson offers some suggestions regarding his own rhetorical question about what are “some practical ways that husbands and wives can submit to each other and sacrifice for each other in pursuit of grace-driven sex?” Ladies and gentlemen, you’ll have to head over to Wilson’s blog to read everything he offers, but here is one …
Three posts from Ligon Duncan on the The First Presbyterian Church of Jackson website/blog. Reproduced from 2002, the content is sound and timely. Here are Duncan’s six head-points: (1) we need elders who want the work, not just the status of an elder; (2) we need elders who are godly men – because character, godliness, …
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