Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. – Johann Sebastian Bach In 1747, Frederick the Great, the king of Prussia, patron of Enlightenment rationalism, and military strongman, invited Johann Sebastian Bach, now an old man three years from his death, for an audience. Frederick thought…

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. – John 13:34-35 In his book The Mark of the Christian, Francis…

The following is entitled The Sideways Image: Loving One Another, from Popologetics: Popular Culture in Christian Perspective by Ted Turnau: Let us explore how community images God. Just as the triune God is a community, so we are made for community. We are quite literally made for each other. “So God created man in his…

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. – Psalm 51:1-3 The Psalter gives us ample instruction in how…

For years I’ve read the Psalter daily; there is no other book I know and love so well as this one…Knowing them in this way belongs to the greatest enrichments of my life. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer on May 15, 1943, writing to his parents from his Nazi prison cell at Tegel I recently finished a…