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Where Have You Been?
hat can I say? I have been re-orienting priorities, and haven’t posted anything here since back in the fall. The Heidelberg posts were all set up to automatically post since the very beginning. I would like to have set up … Continue reading
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Simple Rhyme
he hymn Man of Sorrows is atypical of the majority of hymns coming out of that period in American history defined as “revivalism,” that period making up the last half of the 19th century, and confined roughly to the northeastern … Continue reading
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Baptist Hymnal, 2008
I heard it was in the works late last year, so Monday I was surprised to read so soon that the new 2008 edition of the Baptist Hymnal was out. I don’t know why, but I figured that it would … Continue reading
Sitting or Doing?
ow this may offend some of you Praise-n-Worship brothers, but think about it before you write it off as an old crank who dislikes contemporary worship styles. This illustration was not totally my idea. I have to tip my hat … Continue reading
Truth or Error
ometimes the force of a quotation is delivered as much by who made it as what it was they said. Here is a good example. “With music one can seduce men to every error—and every truth.” —Friedrich Nietszche My lands, … Continue reading
Praise Is His Gracious Choice
he congregational singing where my wife and I worship is better than most. A good number in the congregation actually sing. We mostly sing hymns from the Baptist Hymnal on Sunday mornings, with more modern “praise choruses” mostly sung on … Continue reading
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