I Have a Dad
In his classic book Knowing God, theologian J.I. Packer makes the following assertion about the fatherhood of God. If you want to judge how well a person understands Christianity, find out how much he makes of the thought of being […]
God’s Love
You Love Me Anyway
This song was born out of the songwriters’ experiences as they walked through the book of Hosea with their home church. The Old Testament book of Hosea is one of the most shocking and explicit books of the Bible. Yes, […]
Simple Gift
The tune for this hymn – “Sipmle Gifts” – dates back to the mid-1800s and was made popular by Aaron Copland in his masterpiece “Appalachian Spring.” While the song could not properly be called a “hymn,” (becaue of the lack […]
Let the Children Come to Jesus
This past year, we have been reading and hearing the stories of numerous people who were abused or suffered other scary things as children. We’ve tried to imagine what it must be like to be a child whose whole world […]
The Riches of My Savior’s Love
For the Christian, there is no greater source of comfort and hope than the perfect, redeeming love of the Savior. Christ, with His atoning blood, purchased indisputable pardon for sinners. As those who have been brought near by the blood […]
Love Has Come for Us
This song attempts to capture the wonder of divine love. Though God’s children sqaunder His love like the prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), using His resources for their selfish and self-reliant lives, He patiently, kindly, draws them back to Himself with […]
I Am His
This song freshens up a 19th century hymn by George Robinson about the love of God that we experience in union with Jesus, and how that relationship affects our lives, particularly in how we view creation. Robinson says that “something […]
You Make Me Beautiful
This song was born out of the author’s own experience of the love of God. The Bible portrays the love God has for people using just about every human relationship as an analogy. This is because God’s love is so […]
Though I Was Born an Orphan
One of the central applications of the Gospel is to imitate it. Israel was to love the sojourner because they were sojourners in the land of Egypt (Deuteronomy 10:16). If they, when fatherless, widowed and homeless, were fed, clothed and […]
The Love of God
This song expounds the nature of God’s love for us. On the one hand, God tells us that His love “surpasses knowledge,” (Ephesians 3:19) while on the other hand that “In this is love, not that we loved God, but […]