Dan Greenfield

  • Let Us Love

    This coming Sunday we’ll sing this hymn by John Newton, to this tune. Let us love, and sing, and wonder, Let us praise the Saviour’s name! He has hushed the Law’s loud thunder, He has quenched Mt. Sinai’s flame; He has washed us in His blood, He has brought us nigh to God. Let us Read more

  • What Think Ye of Christ?

    This is one of my favorite hymns in our hymnal– “What think ye of Christ?” is the test To try both your state and your scheme; You cannot be right in the rest Unless you think rightly of Him. As Jesus appears in your view— As He is beloved or not— So God is disposed Read more

  • Ecclesiastical Separation in the 18th Century

    While thumbing through volume four of the Works of Augustus Toplady (1740-1778, author of the hymn, “Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me”), he related the following: That excellent man the late Rev. Mr, Joseph Hart, made it his inviolable rule, not to let an Arian, an Arminian, or any unsound preacher, occupy his pulpit, so Read more

  • A Challenge to Preach Christ

    “An excuse is made by many Christians, which I conceive will not bear the scrutiny of the judgment day: they say they have not the talents for addressing the impenitent and conversing with them on the subject of religion. But are the simple truths of the Gospel so dark, that only the learned can understand Read more

  • The Coming Reign of the Lord Jesus Christ

    Jesus shall reign where’er the sun Does his successive journeys run; His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, Till moons shall wax and wane no more. Behold the islands with their kings, And Europe her best tribute brings; From north to south the princes meet, To pay their homage at His feet. There Persia, glorious Read more

  • The Unifying Theme of the Bible

    While catching up on some reading (you will soon see from the date of the journal I’m reading how far I’m behind) I read a great paragraph briefly surveying how God is glorified in human history: What struck me about [Alva] McClain and [Rolland] McCune’s model (they are similar enough to be treated as a Read more

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