Category: Hymns
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O Come All You Unfaithful
As much as I appreciate and enjoy the traditional Christmas hymns and carols – O Come All Ye Faithful high up on my list – here is a worthy addition to the Christmas song catalog: O Come All You Unfaithful. Though not an especially new song, (it has been around for several years,) this song beautifully…
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Are Some Christmas Songs Better Than Others?
Are some Christmas hymns better than others? Consider what Martin Luther says to his Anglican friends in this imaginary discussion, from Lutheran Satire.
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Ashamed of Jesus?
This past Sunday I introduced the lyrics of an old hymn to our congregation, as part of a message from John 18.1-27 about Peter’s denial of Jesus. The point I was making is that while we are easily “ashamed” of Jesus, whether conscious of it or not, our relationship with Jesus – and with God…
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Grace & Peace: The Song
This song from Sovereign Grace Music, that shares the same title as this blog, is a three verse meditation on Romans 1.7: Verse 1 Grace and peace, oh how can this be / For lawbreakers and thieves / For the worthless, the least / You have said, that our judgment is death / For all eternity / Without hope, without…
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When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
I could never myself believe in God, if it were not for the cross. The only God I believe in is the one Nietzsche ridiculed as “God on the Cross.” In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples and stood…
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How Deep
VERSE 1You were broken that I might be healedYou were cast off that I might draw nearYou were thirsty that I might come drinkCried out in anguish that I might sing CHORUSHow deep is Your loveHow high and how wide is Your mercyHow deep is Your graceOur hearts overflow with praiseTo You VERSE 2You knew…
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Help My Unbelief
If I had a favorite hymn from Red Mountain Music, this would probably be it. It reflects the common duality of our hearts, simultaneously Believing and Struggling to Believe; simultaneously Saints & Sinners. (See Mark 9.24) It reflects and explains the cause of Paul’s dimemma: Failing to do what he wanted to do, and doing…
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I Asked the Lord to Grow in Grace
This song comes from a beautiful poem by John Newton. It is a powerful reminder to me about God’s grace and how God works. Like Newton in the opening lines of this poem, I often ask God to grow me in grace and faith and the fruits of his Spirit. I asked the Lord that I might…
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There is a Fountain Filled With Blood
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel’s veins; and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day; and there may I, though vile as he, wash all my…
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5 Songs for Good Friday
With Easter coming Sunday, the MOST Holy day on the Christian calendar, it is easy to overlook or undervalue Good Friday. But to do so deprives us of great opportunity to glory in the Cross. When I was a kid, I remember asking my mother one day: “Why do they call it Good Friday, if…
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Now Why This Fear
Now why this fear and unbelief? Has not the Father put to grief His spotless Son for us? And will the righteous Judge of men Condemn me for that debt of sin Now canceled at the cross? Chorus Jesus, all my trust is in Your blood Jesus, You’ve rescued us Through Your great love Verse…
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All I Have is Christ
I once was lost in darkest night/Yet thought I knew the way/The sin that promised joy and life/Had led me to the grave/I had no hope that You would own/A rebel to Your will/And if You had not loved me first/I would refuse You still But as I ran my hell-bound race/Indifferent to the cost/You…
