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NOTE: This post is a continuation of conversation taking place at My Two Cents and here at Irrelevant.
Chris,
There is a world of difference between the imagery of “O Sacred Head” and say, “In The Garden.” What you call “brokenness” is the idea of penitence, which absolutely has a place in our piety. However, even in [...]

We’ll be celebrating Christmas at Faith with this hymn by Ger­hard Ter­stee­gen…
Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN
Triumph, ye heavens! rejoice ye with high adoration!
Sing to the Lord, to the Savior, in glad exultation!
Angels give ear! God unto men draweth near,
Bringing to lost ones salvation.
God in man’s nature! O mystery past comprehending!
Now is the temple thrown wide and [...]

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Greetings!
We trust that the season finds you well. As I reflect back on the year that was, I am reminded of the growth that has taken place. Still, as Gerhard Tersteegen penned in his hymn “Thou Hidden Love of God,” I am not content with all I see:
Thy secret voice invites me still
The sweetness of [...]

“Yes, we both worship the same God – you in your way, and I in His.”

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From Future Men, p. 100
Music has been one of the chief culprits in the feminization of the church. Many of the ‘traditional’ hymns of the nineteenth century are romantic, flowery, and feminine. (I come, after all, to the garden alone, while the dew is still on the roses.) But the recent rejection of such hymns [...]

Tim Challies quotes Douglas Wilson:
Homeschoolers, he says, are “people who have carefully considered all the options available to them in the education of their children, have prayerfully weighed them, and have decided to provide their children with an education at home.” Homers are extremists who “have a completely different attitude toward the process of homeschooling. [...]

From Psalm 72
Tune: OSTEND
O, God, thy judgments give the King,
His Son thy righteousness;
With right he shall thy people judge,
Thy poor with uprightness.
And then the mountains shall bring forth
To all the people peace;
The hills because of righteousness
Their blessing shall increase.
The people’s poor ones he shall judge,
The needy’s children bless;
And he will break in pieces those
Who would [...]