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Today these lyrics by Isaac Watts are often sung as the hymn we know as I Sing The Mighty Power of God.
1. How did this verse get eliminated?
2. Should we try to get it back in?
In heaven he shines with beams of love,
With wrath in hell beneath:
’Tis on his earth I stand or move,
And ‘tis [...]

My friend’s sister works with mentally retarded people. Last year, when John Paul II died, his sister laid out the newspaper, as is her custom. One of the residents looks at the picture and starts bawling uncontrollably.
She asks him what was wrong.
Between sobs, he replied:
“Santa Claus DIED!”

Without any foundation in historical awareness, churches will view everything through a contemporary lens alone in a never-ending search for the ephemeral goal of “relevance.” We must heed the truism that “he who is married to the most recent trend is sure to become a widower.”
-Paul Hartog, “Economic Wisdom as an Analogy to Prudence of [...]

Well, Jennifer and I have discovered that #4 is on the way. We are thrilled at this new blessing! We are anticipating the birth in early February, assuming all goes according to plan.
I have to tell you a funny story, though. We sat our three daughters (ages 7, 6, and 3) down to fill them [...]

NOTE: This is our Psalm of the Month at Faith Baptist Church for July 2006
From Psalm 44
Tune: COVENTRY CAROL
O GOD, we with our ears have heard,
Our fathers have us told,
The work that in their days thou didst
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