I listened to a podcast recently on Augustus Toplady, and on its completion I thought it would be interesting to pull out a book I bought a long time ago, but has been collecting dust on a bookshelf. The Complete Works of Augustus Toplady, published in 1987, but, from the flyleaf “Printed verbatim from the…
All posts tagged Toplady
Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me
I’m singing the offertory Sunday, doing one of my favorite songs, but with a new melody. I wrote about it earlier, in this blog post, but the text bears repeating here. The lyrical melody line is nothing like what you’ve sung in the past or heard on “Little House On the Prairie” and breathes new…
Talk about it:
Please turn with me…
… to page 746 in Our Own Hymn-Book as we sing about the sweetness of gracious meditations on God’s goodness. (Sung to the tune of “O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing.”) When languor and disease invade This trembling house of clay, ‘Tis sweet to look beyond the cage, And long to fly away. Sweet…
Talk about it:
The Palms of His Hand
Today’s reading passage in my project to read through the Bible this year was in Isaiah, chapters 46-50. It’s amazing how there is always something to take away, a phrase that strikes home, a glimpse into a deeper meaning from another reference passage, or maybe a thought of a hymn or other song, regardless of…
