Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, in the blood of Your Son our Lord, You have …
A Through Composed Canon
This one is sung in the form of a canon, and is through composed also. It is Psalm 134, composed by David Erb. Psalm 134 – Behold Bless the Lord from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.
The Suburbs of Sin
As we come, week after week, to confess our sins, we need to learn to make certain fine distinctions. In one direction is the peril of a false scrupulousness, and in the other we see the error of rejecting that, and settling in complacently to substandard Christian living. We don’t want hyper-scrupulousness of conscience, but …
Chalcedon and Communion
When we come here to partake of the body and blood of the Lord, we use that language—because Scripture does. But at the same time, we want to guard against a crass literalism that throws out something else that the Bible teaches with equal clarity. Christ assumed a human body, and He did so forever. …
Confessing Autonomous Virtues
Our Father and God, You have established Your Church as a royal priesthood in this world, and so we intercede for the nations of men now, confessing on their behalf so that the grace of Your forgiveness will soon be extended to them all. Father, as every people must, when they turn away from Your …
Thanksgiving in the Evil Day
I just recently finished peeling the potatoes for the feast later on, and I note in passing that the way my wife makes bashed potatoes is one of her innumerable glories. Having made my contribution to the process, which stretched and almost exceeded the limit of my culinary abilities, I have thought it necessary to …
The NSA Fight Song
So here is Psalm 122, one that we found on a CD of early American sacred music, a CD entitled Goostly Psalmes. Goostly is a great synonym for spiritual, is it not? Let’s try to bring that one back. Another name that we have for this psalm is the NSA Fight Song. The way we …
O Love How Deep, How Broad, How High
We sing a lot of psalms, but not exclusively. Call the practice dominant psalmnody. At any rate, here is an example of one of the hymns we sing. I believe the melody was composed after the English victory at Agincourt. Psalm Sing – Christ Church, Moscow, ID from Daniel Foucachon on Vimeo.
Through Composed
Okay, now it is time for a different kind of psalm. The previous two were metrical psalms, and the tunes were fuguing tunes — very popular in early American music. But there is another way to sing psalms as well, one which enables your people to get closer to the text, and to store up …
Jesus Under the Word
When our Lord was tempted by the devil in the wilderness, He answered with Scripture, as we all know. Three times He was tested, and each time He replied in the words of Deuteronomy. But this is sometimes misunderstood. We tend to think that Jesus was quoting Scripture at the devil, as though the devil …