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Fanny Crosby “Day”
Today marks the 109th anniversary of the passing of one of America’s greatest composers/hymnists. She exited this earth and was, after a near-lifetime of blindness because of a poor choice by her physician to treat a simple element with a “hot mustard” salve, finally able again to see the wondrous love for which she wrote.…
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Law of Love…Gospel of Peace
Here’s another piece I wrote a couple of years ago on a lyric that oft gets “sung over” without allowing the power to sink in. Think about it when you sing “O Holy Night” this year! “Law of Love and Gospel of Peace” (Originally Posted on 2016-06-15) Last Christmas, I wrote this post amidst a sea of…
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Come, Emmanuel (#2) [2022]
As the anticipation, the “Watching and waiting, looking above” continues, we move (backward) to the first verse of “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.” Perhaps, this is the most poignant of this hymns litany of verses, with its begging and pleading for Messiah to come…little did they know just what that Messiah would look like.…
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Come, Emmanuel! (#1) [2022 Reshare]
No sooner had the thanksgiving dressing been put away to become a late-afternoon football snack than the Christmas decor began to make its grand entrance from almost a years worth of being stored away! Isn’t this story so true in many of our homes? Seems like some folks have been ready to unleash Burl Ives,…
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New podcast episode!
I joined with my friends over at hymnpartial.com for their latest podcast episode to talk about Trinitarian hymns! Go listen to the latest episode on your favorite podcast source, or you can watch the video of me looking awkward on YouTube.
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Adventures in Hymnody…a prequel
It’s early Saturday morning… All is quiet and unstirred in the Bulls’ household…but my mind? Not so much. I quit fighting my brain about and finally got out of bed 430 AM. This happens from time to time. But today, my mind is preoccupied with thoughts of my beloved friend Dr. Forrest McCann and his…
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