Twenty Hymns that You Should Know and Teach Your Children

I love both old and new worship songs. We sing old songs and we sing a lot of new songs in our worship. We do old and new on purpose. I love the Gettys, and I love Bernard of Clairvaux; I love Isaac Watts, and I love Fernando Ortega. I love Charles Wesley, and I […]

The Christian’s Ethic is Love

We just finished our exposition of 1 Cor. 13 this last Wednesday night. What a convicting chapter. What a mirror to the heart. Lord, help us to see our true state clearly! Help us to grow in our love for you and for others. What 1 Cor. 13 does for us is it reminds us […]

When I Am Afflicted and Needy

This morning I was reading Psalm 86, “A Prayer of David.” David was afflicted and needy. The combination of these two words creates a powerful picture of someone in distress. The first word (ʿānî) means “weak or afflicted from some kind of disability or distress.” In other words, it can be either physical or emotional. […]