• All Praise to Thee, Eternal Lord

    All Praise to Thee, Eternal Lord Martin Luther (1483–1546) All praise to Thee, Eternal Lord, Who wore the garb of flesh and blood; And chose a manger for Thy throne, While worlds on worlds were Thine alone. Once did the skies before Thee bow; A virgin’s arms contain Thee now; While angels who in Thee Read more

  • Google’s Foolishness

    When I opened my web browser today and Google started up, this screen greeted me: I didn’t like seeing that. Harumph. My office has been in “transition” (that’s an educated word for “disaster”) and there’s books and files everywhere. I spotted an old tract I picked up somewhere titled, “A Critique of the Theory of Read more

  • Salvation Unto Us Has Come

    Salvation unto us has come By God’s free grace and favor; Good works cannot avert our doom, They help and save us never. Faith looks to Jesus Christ alone, Who did for all the world atone; He is our one Redeemer. What God did in His Law demand And none to Him could render Caused Read more

  • Sinners, Approach Your Dying Lord

    Sinners, approach your dying Lord, And find your happiness restor’d: His proffer’d benefits embrace, The plenitude of gospel grace: A pardon written with his blood, The favour and the peace of God; The seeing eye, the feeling sense, The trembling joys of penitence: The godly fear, the pleasing smart, The meltings of a broken heart: Read more

  • I’ll Praise My Maker With My Breath

    This Isaac Watts’ hymn is based on Psalm 146. I’ll praise my Maker with my breath; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers. My days of praise shall ne’er be past While life and thought and being last, Or immortality endures. Why should I make a man my Read more

  • Shall I for Fear of Feeble Man

    Shall I, for fear of feeble man,The Sprit’s course in me restrain?Or, undismayed, in deed and wordBe a true witness for my Lord? Awed by a mortal’s frown, shall IConceal the Word of God most high?How then before Thee shall I dareTo stand, or how Thine anger bear? Shall I, to soothe the unholy throng,Soften Read more