Repost: Hymns – What Hope! An Eden Prophesied

Though this hymn is relatively new, the words have a timeless quality, drawing us back to the Scriptures and when they were written, calling us forward to the day of Christ's next coming. In this hymn, we rest assured in the promises of God that have come to fruition and those we wait for in hope.

Repost: Hymns – We Gather Together

During this Thanksgiving season, we remember that during times of plenty or times of scarcity, during trials or peace, our hope is in the Lord.Rose: Hymns – We Gather Together While I’ve known about this hymn for many years, there was a lot about the history of this hymn that I didn’t know before writing …

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Review: Wars of the Realm

Image from perfect-praise.com Author: Chuck Black Publisher: Multnomah Books Chuck Black has been one of my favorite authors for years. I was first introduced to his books The Knights of Arrethtrae when I was in middle school. It turned out that this was a companion series to his books The Kingdom Series, a biblical allegory. I loved these …

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Comments on the “Dresden Files”

I decided about a week ago to pick up Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series again after not looking at them for about a year. My husband had read the series and said that I would really like them. While he was correct on other series suggested to me, such as the Codex Alera  and Wheel of Time, I did not …

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Hymns: What a Friend we have in Jesus

Joseph Medlicott Scriven was in 1819 born to John and Jane Scriven of Banbridge, Ireland. Joseph had a rather turbulent life even from a young age. He had wanted to serve in the military, but his poor health led to him studying at Trinity College, which he graduated from in 1842. A year later, his fiancée drowned …

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