After reading Ecclesiastes chapter 6 mgpc sang ‘When I Survey The Wondrous Cross’. I liked the contrast between the futility of an earthly focus with the cross centered testimony of the hymn. Isaac Watts is the father of hymnody in the English language. Read about him on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library here. It is …
Tonight we sang ‘How Firm A Foundation’. I’d heard this on the Sovereign Grace CD Together For The Gospel. It is also in our Australian Presbyterian Hymnbook, Rejoice! What a wonderful testimony of God’s faithfulness toward His people. If this was your basic Christian doctrine of God’s preserving and sanctifying grace you could do a …
Last Sunday I mentioned Lynn DeShazo’s song Ancient Words (which begins with the phrase ‘Holy Words long preserved’) as being one of a few modern songs that help worshippers focus on one of the God given means of grace, the Bible. I am a little disappointed that it has not achieved more popular usage in …
So. Many. Good. Townend. And. Getty. Songs. There is real craft to writing songs that express truths that Christians should be thinking and wanting to express. This is different from writing songs that attempt to make Christians feel what the writer believes they should be feeling. This song recognises that when Christians gather it is …
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