Card’s Biblical Lyricism

04 Aug 2010

One cannot help but admire the biblical lyricism of Michael Card. He redefined biblical compositions at a time when the Christian music world was suffering from creative and theological anemia. Card’s Things We Leave Behind and God’s Own Fool are two of the best examples of his creativity and theological substance.

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Nicholas T. Batzig

Nick Batzig is the senior pastor of Church Creek PCA in Charleston, SC and an associate editor for Ligonier Ministries. Prior to serving at Church Creek, Nick was a pastor at Wayside PCA on Signal Mountain, TN. Formerly, Nick served as the founding pastor of New Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Richmond Hill, GA and as the editor of Reformation21 and the Christward Collective--sites of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals. He frequently writes for Tabletalk Magazine, Reformation 21, He Reads Truth, and the Christward Collective. Nick was also the host of East of Eden, a podcast devoted to the Biblical and Systematic Theology of Jonathan Edwards. You can friend him on Facebook here and follow him on Twitter @nick_batzig

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Benjamin Shaw

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Yes. He’s improved a lot since the days of “El Shaddai”–a pretty song with incomprehensible lyrics, and Hebrew such as no Hebrew ever wrote.

August 6, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Nicholas T. Batzig

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Rabbi,

You are hilarious. Thank you for dismissing my attempt to praise Card’s biblicism, by critiquing his exegesis. Oh well. I still like the two songs I posted links to 🙂

August 6, 2010 at 2:44 pm

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