"Variant on Benedictus" from Dr. R.C. Sproul’s new sacred music project, Glory to the Holy One.

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Music by Jeff Lippencott. Words by R.C. Sproul.

Lyrics

Chosen first among the priests
To serve within the temple walls
Zacharias stood in awe
As he heard the angel call

Refrain

Benedictus
Benedictus
Blessed is the Lord
Benedictus
Benedictus
God’s incarnate Word

Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God
Will come to raise salvation’s horn
God Incarnate, Word made flesh
To a virgin shall be born

Refrain

Christ brings light to sin’s dark night
Our Dayspring, Jesus, from on high
Saints and angels sing God’s praise
All the earth and heav’ns reply

Refrain

God’s incarnate Word
Benedictus
Benedictus

Variant on Benedictus

"1517" from Dr. R.C. Sproul’s new sacred music project, Glory to the Holy One.

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Music by Jeff Lippencott. Words by R.C. Sproul.

One hammer in the hand of an obscure Augustinian monk changed the world forever. Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses on the church door in Wittenburg, Germany calling his fellow professors to examine issues of supreme theological importance. Thus began the Reformation through which the light of God’s Word was brought out of the darkness to shine with clarity once more.

One of the central cries of the protestant Reformation was this: “The just shall live by faith.” Luther’s development of the doctrine of justification by faith alone recovered the gospel that had been hidden during the Middle Ages. And at the center of that gospel is the affirmation that the righteousness by which we are declared just before a holy God is not our own.

It’s a foreign righteousness, an alien righteousness, a righteousness that Luther said is extra nos—apart from us. Namely, it’s the righteousness of Jesus Christ—that righteousness that’s imputed or counted for all who put their trust in Him.

Because of that affirmation luther was involved in serious controversies—controversies that culminated in his being brought to trial before the princes of the church and even before the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, Charles the V.

And there at the Diet of Worms, summoned in Germany, Luther was called upon to recant his views. He answered his interlocutors by saying, “Revoco? You want me to say revoco? That I recant? I will not recant unless I am convinced by sacred Scripture or by evident reason. I cannot recant for my conscience is held captive by the Word of God.

And to act against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me.”

In every generation the gospel must be published anew with the same boldness, and the same clarity, and the same urgency that came forth in the 16th century Reformation.

The church has always done this in both the spoken word and in song—producing hymns that tell us of the great salvation that has been wrought by God alone through Christ alone.

These hymns that you hear today are sacred music for the church giving glory to the Holy One.

1517

"Amen" from Dr. R.C. Sproul’s new sacred music project, Glory to the Holy One.

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Music by Jeff Lippencott. Words by R.C. Sproul.

Lyrics

Amen, amen
We come to You, amen
Thy Word is true, amen
Amen, amen

Amen, amen
We kneel to You, amen
Our lives we yield, amen
Amen, amen

Amen

Amen

"These Great Things" from Dr. R.C. Sproul’s new sacred music project, Glory to the Holy One.

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Music by Jeff Lippencott. Words by R.C. Sproul.

Lyrics

How can it be, this truth divine,
Declared by God above
That all things by His grand design
Work good for us by love

Called by our Lord in purposed ends
No tragedy shall win
No curse for those He calls His friends
He saved us from our sins

Refrain

What shall we say to these great things?
Of mystery sublime
That if He is for us we can sing
Now and for all time

Foreknown by Him with
Hearts made new
To His Son we conform
No pow’r on earth can this undo
For those He’s made reborn

Refrain

First He did choose, and called He then
To surely justify
For those of the faith beyond our ken
He soon will glorify

Refrain

Glory to the Holy One

These Great Things

Part Time Pastiche

Centering Prayer Guided Meditation With Fr. Thomas

An audio meditation on your belovedness. You are loved. Period.

God In All Things

Beloved - An Audio Meditation

Solo piano version of a song I featured in a mixtape called - Strong but Lost. Played on a Nord Stage 2 Ex.

Strong But Lost (piano demo)

Here is the audio recording of Rabbi Sacks' Covenant & Conversation commentary essay on this week's double Torah portion of Eikev 5780.

You can download a PDF of this commentary, as well as an accompanying Family Edition, from rabbisacks.org/eikev-5780/

The Covenant and the Love (Eikev 5780)

Clarity

The official SoundCloud account of Ligonier Ministries, founded by theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul in 1971 to help Christians know what they believe, why the believe it, how to live it, and how to share it.