I’ll fight!
While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is...
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While women weep, as they do now, I’ll fight. While little children go hungry, as they do now, I’ll fight. While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight. While there is...
American roots music provides an untapped resource for church musicians who are looking for something different yet familiar. Well-known are the spirituals (Ain’t that Good News, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, etc.), but early rural American blues & gospel music contains...
The poor have the gospel preached unto them (Matthew 11:5, KJV) …it is one delightful mark of Christ’s dispensation, that he aims first at the poor. It was wise in him to do so. If we would fire a building,...
Authentic Christian unity is effective witness. We know this because of Christ’s prayer in John 17:20-23: “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be...
Consider J.S. Bach, who: …was charged with overseeing the music in four Leipzig churches. He was married twice, a widow once and had 20 children. He taught music lessons and Latin classes. He rehearsed and performed his own organ works...
Since this year marks the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth (which is a big deal in many circles), I pirated this comment from our Field Blog: While living in the city of Geneva (now in Switzerland), Calvin made sure...
Here’s an excerpt from William Romaine, a colleague of Watts, concerning the ‘new’ songs that were being written for the church in the 1700s: Why in such a case would any man in the world take it into his head...
Bob Kauflin describes the story behind the song Great Is Thy Faithfulness: Thomas Chisholm, who sometimes described himself as “just an old shoe,” was born in a Kentucky log cabin in 1866. He was converted when he was 27, became...
It was a gloomy atmosphere which greeted the delegates gathered in the old Statehouse in Philadelphia over 200 years ago. They had come from all 13 colonies to act upon the troubled conditions which plagued the New World. Should a...
Here’s a free Fathers Day download (pdf), courtesy of Mariana Marin, a colleague at Cross International. It includes history of the holiday, a poem and this prayer by Kurt Loadman: Let us praise those fathers who have striven to balance...