The Rhyming Bible: Genesis 1–3
But then God said, ‘Let there be light’, and in a blazing surge of might he made the world, in all its glory and set the stage for all our story.
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But then God said, ‘Let there be light’, and in a blazing surge of might he made the world, in all its glory and set the stage for all our story.
‘Child’ was written on a trying day in the depths of the pandemic. As an effort to recite God’s words of comfort to myself, it felt like a lullaby from our Father to his children. And an invitation to trust him with each moment, little by little.
Some quarters of Western culture are beginning to wonder whether treasures were lost when Christianity was thrown out, are beginning to pick over the rubbish tip to retrieve them, in warm, perplexed curiosity, at the very least.
The song was written to be sung at a local women’s conference earlier this year. The conference was focused on the book of John, which inspired the lyrics.
Faith and art and commending the gospel of Jesus - all are woven together in the work of Christina and Peirce Baehr, from Pilgrim Hill.
