When The Messenger Falls Short Of The Message

It’s a beautiful song based on a verse in the Psalms about God’s word. We sang it one Sunday in morning worship. (As the late Rush Limbaugh would say, this was “a heap many moons ago.”) However, one worshipper was distraught. She reminded me later that the hymn writer had been in the news in recent weeks. The writer left her husband and married someone who had left his wife. Their notoriety made t...