Every Christmas, one of the favorite songs every year is “Joy to the World, The Lord is Come!” We celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus—who came to save us from sin. Our focal passage this morning, Psalm 98, says in verse one: 1 Oh sing to the LORD a new song, for he has…
Devotional Writting
Bring Hope to the Homeless
The Bible says in Zechariah 7:8-10: (Reading from the Christian Standard Bible) 9 “The LORD of Armies says this: ‘Make fair decisions. Show faithful love and compassion to one another. 10 “Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the resident alien or the poor, and do not plot evil in your hearts against one…
Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love
As we begin our time this morning, let us reflect on the hymn before us which some hymnals have titled; “The Enjoyment of Heaven”. This hymn was written by Philip Doddridge. Doddridge was an English Pastor and Schoolteacher. In 1755, his friend, Job Orton, published a collection of his hymns after Dr. Doddridge’s death in…
The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart
The hymn we consider this morning was written by the great hymn writer, Isaac Watts—we will no doubt have more hymns written by him through our study. But his hymn that we are looking at this morning reminds us in its title that “The Love of God Shed Abroad in the Heart” 1 Come, gracious…
Act of Remembrance Prayer
This morning, I had the honor of providing the invocation and benediction to the 100th Anniversary of the End of World War I Act of Remembrance at Fort Bliss, TX. These are the prayers from today’s ceremony: Invocation: Across the Commonwealth countries, people gather on November 11th to honor to fallen. Peter Marshal once preached…
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Over the next several months or so I will be working my way through a little hymnal I found. Several months ago, I ordered a reprint of the classic hymnal “Songs for the Sanctuary, or Hymns and Tunes for Christian Worship”. The hymnal was compiled by Charles Seymour Robinson in the late 1860s. This particular…