I love our church’s hymnbook, and I have my favorite hymns. Similarly, the Old Testament “Hymnbook” is the Book of Psalms, and I love Psalm 136. This psalm has 26 verses that tell of God’s goodness ...
As the people sang the old hymn, they streamed back into the church and the meeting lasted ... When we become content with “Lord, bless me” Christianity, then there’s a problem. Jesus came to show us ...
The backstory to the writing of this hymn and the content therein could not be a more powerful analogy of the kind of peace only made possible through Christ, alone. As Paul writes to another group of ...