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Songs We Sing (12/31/23)
Our songs for this Lord’s Day include “From Heaven O Praise The Lord” in the key of C, “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” in F, “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing” in F, “Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem” in Ab, and “Joy To The World” in the key of C.
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Merry Lenz Christmas
Tiny King Mary had a baby, Tiny King, Tiny King, And she laid him in a stable bare. Oh, Mary had a baby, Tiny King, Tiny King, And they say that his name was Wonderful, Marvelous, The Lord of Light and Love. Mary had a baby, Tiny King, Tiny King, And she wrapped him in…
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On Controversy
So apparently I’m a little late to this party but I just realized that John Newton is a calvinist. This doesn’t surprise me given the hymns he’s written (i.e. Amazing Grace, Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken, Let Us Love and Sing and Wonder, etc.) but to my credit, any Christian sounds like a calvinist when they stick…
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If the Church is doing her job…
Toby J. Sumpter has been on a roll lately. His latest Jesus & the Bikinis is another home run. Here’s a taste but you should most definitely read the whole thing (here): And if the Church is doing her job, proclaiming this good news of forgiveness and justice in Jesus, then she ought to attract people who…
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Context Matters
I am not a minister in New York City. I am not a minster in a college town or on a college campus. I am a minister in a small rural community in central Texas called Taylor. Here, the opium of the masses is apathy. Apathy as opposed to equally seductive intellectualism. Of course I’m…