Our “Hymn Meditations” series highlights unfamiliar hymn texts that are profound in their poetry and rich in doctrine. The hymn text for this week is “A Lamb Goes Uncomplaining Forth.” Its author is Paul Gerhardt, c. 1648. ____________________...
Our “Hymn Meditations” series highlights unfamiliar hymn texts that are profound in their poetry and rich in doctrine. The hymn text for this week is “Comfort, Comfort Ye My People,” a paraphrase of the fortieth chapter of Isaiah. Its author is...
Our series of “Monday Meditations” highlights unfamiliar hymn texts that are profound in their poetry and rich in doctrine. The hymn text for this week is “Jerusalem the Golden.” Its author is Bernard of Cluny, 12th century, translated from...
This is the first post in a series titled “Monday Meditations.” We’ll post unfamiliar hymn texts that, by virtue of their excellence and profound expressions of devotion, deserve to be passed on. This week’s text is “Stricken, Smitten,...
“Nativity” (1423), by Gentile da Fabriano I thought it would be fitting to close out this Christmas season with a rich hymn text written by Frank Houghton in 1934. Houghton was serving as Editorial Secretary for the China Inland Mission when two...
On this Christmas Eve, here is a poignant meditation by the Welsh poet R.S. Thomas (1913-2000). And God held in his hand A small globe. Look he said. The son looked. Far off, As through water, he saw A scorched land of fierce Colour. The light burned There; crusted...
