Category: Offering

Perhaps the Best Contemporary Worship Song Ever Written

November 12, 2015

In a day and age when most traditional churches exclusively sang psalms, Isaac Watts (1647-1748) became a fervent contemporary writer of hymns. As the story goes, when as a young man he complained to his father about the monotonous way Christians sung in worship, his father, a leading deacon in the congregation, retorted, “Well then young … More Perhaps the Best Contemporary Worship Song Ever Written

Twelve Expensive Days

February 26, 2014

Numbers 7 is the second longest chapter in the Bible.* Within these 89 verses, there is much repetition. The human author could write the first 17 verses, and then end with etc … etc. For sure, scripture readers, teachers, translators, and copyists would be grateful. Such a truncation of the text would save many Hebrew … More Twelve Expensive Days