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“It’s like reaching the rich young ruler by throwing money at him,” is the apt comparison of T. David Gordon in response to whether or not church music should be “seeker-friendly.”
In an interview with Christianity Today‘s Mark Moring that springs from his book Why Johnny Can’t Sing Hymns, [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I argued that, if we are committed to conservative worship, it only follows that we should be committed to perpetuating conservative worship in the next generation. We want to continue developing this theme as we post at the Religious Affections blog. What hymns might we teach children? Before I name some specific [...]
Continue Reading →The singing of psalms has all but disappeared from many congregations, unless you count the “As the Deer” chorus as a singing of a psalm. (Lifting the first line from a psalm and adding words about your desire to eventually worship generally doesn’t count.) One cannot help feeling that many congregations treat their hymnal as [...]
Continue Reading →The hymn “Come Down, O Love Divine” is a worthy one if you do not yet know it. I was first introduced to it several years ago by the masterful Kings College Choir recording Best Loved Hymns.
The hymn is a prayer to the Holy Spirit to come and pour out his divine [...]
Continue Reading →The concept often referred to as the humiliation of God the Son—the notion that the second person of the Trinity emptied himself of the full manifestation of His glorious divinity, left his privileged position in heaven, veiled himself in human flesh, and dwelt among his creatures as one of them—is one of the most wonderfully [...]
Continue Reading →It seems that since the compiling of Veni, veni Emmanuel, approximately 500 years passed by without new hymns for Advent written in Latin. Naturally, Latin’s growing disuse over the previous thousand years in favor of vernacular languages played a primary role. Charles Coffin was born in Northern France and in 1701 would become a faculty [...]
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Creator of the stars of night,
Thy people’s everlasting Light;
Jesu, Redeemer, save us all,
And hear thy servants when they call.
Thou, grieving that the ancient curse
Should doom to death an universe,
Hast found the med’cine, full of grace,
To save and heal [...]
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