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Listen as “Hi Ren” Gives Countercultural Rebuttal to Godless Mental Health Industry

While Ren Gill claims he doesn’t identify with any particular religion, deep and ancient Christian themes take center stage in "Hi Ren."

Written by Evita Duffy-Alfonso | Thursday, February 9, 2023

Gill recognizes that as a sinful human, he is meant to struggle, and there is power in embracing that struggle. Indeed, the only real way for people to flourish is to let go of pride and accept and even embrace the humiliating realities of life. Gill gets this, making his song a radical departure from... Continue Reading

The Truths of Which We Now Sing (1 Tim 3:16)

Six lyrical phrases from what was most probably an early Christian hymn, sung in three stanzas of two lines each. Let’s consider the truth revealed in each line.

Written by R. Fowler White | Sunday, December 18, 2022

We sing because we have believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God and Savior of sinners. We sing because we have received and are resting upon Christ alone for salvation as He is offered in the Gospel. Don’t sneer at us who sing. Join us in our confession and sing with us... Continue Reading

Doing Well in the Things that Count

How are you really doing, that is, in the things that really count?

Written by Douglas Bond | Monday, September 26, 2022

Helen Lemmel, a member of Ballard Baptist Church, died in Seattle on November 1, 1961, thirteen days before her 98th birthday; she had written nearly 500 hymns. Due to her extreme poverty, her remains were cremated and nobody seems to know where they were disposed of. No matter. Those are things of earth. Strangely dim.... Continue Reading

Handel’s “Messiah,” A Prophetic Masterwork—An Introduction

Great music has a paradoxical effect: it is both anchored in its own time, and yet timeless.

Written by Kim Beazley | Tuesday, September 13, 2022

When you think of a work that has Jesus the Messiah as its sole subject, you would reasonably assume that the text is heavily dependent on the New Testament, and primarily the Gospels. But when you look through the text, roughly two-thirds of the passages used are Old Testament. That alone suggests its prophetic nature.   We... Continue Reading

Music: Theology’s Seasoning

Music plays an important role in keeping theology palatable for the saint.

Written by Pakman | Thursday, August 11, 2022

Hymns are Dominantly God-Centered. Most hymns that have lasted the test of time are God-centered hymns. Even songs about personal sanctification often have the intention to draw your eyes to Christ in the midst of your trials. This is the ultimate point isn’t it? A life experiencing hardship tests the saint’s commitment to resolutely keep God... Continue Reading

Jesus Shall Reign

The Remarkable Story of the First Missionary Hymn

Written by Scott Hubbard | Sunday, June 19, 2022

Two themes dominate the hymn the Tongans sang 160 Pentecosts ago: the universal reach of Jesus’s reign, and the unrivaled blessings of that reign. The risen Christ is on the move, undeterred until his blessed foot treads every coastland and continent, every inland and island, from Israel to England to Tonga. The Tongans sang because... Continue Reading

Venite Adoremus: The Creedal Hymnody of Christmastide

This article gives some attention to the theologically rich and particularly creedal congregational singing that surrounds Advent.

Written by Sean Morris | Tuesday, December 21, 2021

The Christmas hymns and carols being among the most lovely, sing-able, and familiar, are also among the most richly doctrinal. I know of no other time of the year where so many Evangelical and Protestant congregations (from all sections of the worship-style spectrum) are singing and meditating on such explicitly creedal confessions of the church... Continue Reading

Love Beyond Telling

The Surprising History of a Favorite Hymn

Written by Marshall Segal | Sunday, October 3, 2021

As with so many of our favorite hymns, “The Love of God” was born in adversity. Frederick Lehman (1868–1953), who wrote the hymn with his daughter, had experienced the failure of his once-profitable business, which left him packing crates of oranges and lemons in Pasadena, California, to make ends meet. Again and again throughout history,... Continue Reading

A New Video on the Pilgrims

Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Voyage of Mayflower

Written by Frank J. Smith | Thursday, November 26, 2020

One way to celebrate Thanksgiving is to rehearse the history of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower. You can recount this history by watching a new video on the Pilgrims recently released. The Pilgrims, 17th-Century English Emigrants is a 30-minute documentary in celebration of the 400th anniversary this year of the voyage of Mayflower. Among the... Continue Reading

Miss. Pastor Wins ‘the Voice,’ Sings Christian Song ‘I Can Only Imagine’ in Finale

“Pastor, we love seeing your journey throughout this whole season,” coach John Legend told him.

Written by Jeannie Law | Saturday, May 30, 2020

Shelton praised him for “the connection you have with people.” In the finale, Tilghman also performed alongside his coach Shelton the John Mellencamp hit “Authority Song,” The minster was surrounded by his wife of 21 years and their eight children as host Carson Daly named him the winner of the singing competition.     Todd Tilghman, a... Continue Reading

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