Dan Greenfield

  • Gravity and Decency

    Behold the sons, the heirs of God, So dearly bought with Jesus’ blood! Are they not born to heavenly joys? And shall they stoop to earthly toys? Can laughter feed th’ immortal mind? Were spirits of a heavenly kind Made for a jest, for sport and play— To wear out time, and waste the day! Read more

  • Evening Prayer

    Meek and lowly be my mind, Pure my heart, my will resigned: Make me dead to all below, Only CHRIST resolved to know; Firm, and disengaged, and free, Seeking all my bliss in thee. Augustus Toplady, Psalms and Hymns, #XLIV Read more

  • The Way, the Truth, the Life

    1 Thou art the Way: by Thee alone From sin and death we flee; And he who would the Father seek, Must seek Him, Lord, by Thee. 2 Thou art the Truth: Thy word alone True wisdom can impart; Thou only canst instruct the mind, And purify the heart. 3 Thou art the Life: the Read more

  • Preparation for Worship

    Thy promise, Lord, and thy command, Have brought us here today; And now, we humbly waiting stand To hear what thou wilt say. Meet us, we pray, with words of peace, And fill our hearts with love; That from our follies we may cease, And henceforth faithful prove. —Olney Hymns, #XCI, p. 251. Read more

  • The Tolling Bell

    Oft as the bell, with solemn toll, Speaks the departure of a soul, Let each one ask himself, “Am I Prepar’d, should I be call’d to die?” Only this frail and fleeting breath Preserves me from the jaws of death; Soon as it fails, at once I’m gone, And plung’d into a world unknown. Then Read more

  • The Purpose of the Law

    From the time of the Exodus until the death of Christ, a believing Israelite’s relationship with God was regulated by the Mosaic Covenant (Exod 19-24). The law was never intended to establish a relationship between God and Israel, but rather to govern or regulate that relationship, which existed by faith. –J. Carl Laney, Ezra and Read more

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