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Some beautiful hymns for those that like a more traditional Church music. This special, full-length presentation of the "Gospel Music Hymn Sing at First Baptist Atlanta" is presented by The Gospel Music Hymn Sing Foundation. I have really grown to love these sounds and the Southern Baptist style.

https://youtu.be/QytNRz29CJc?si=puoaQj6eifA5DSCN
The start of a new year. We forge forward together, protecting each others flanks, lifting each other up as we stumble and keeping our swords sharp. United together in faith, mission and duty. I look forward to another great year for all of us. May 2025 be full of blessings and may the new year be filled with love, joy, hope and looking to Christ for all our needs.

GP Derek Nordio
OMSDT Knights Templar
The Lord is my strength and my shield;
in him my heart trusts, and I am helped;
my heart exults,and with my song I give thanks to him.
~Psalm 28:7
Psalm 18 was also written by David. David loved the Lord with his whole heart. He uses wonderful military metaphors to describe his relationship with Him. David knows God as his rock, his fortress, and his savior.

David wrote this song of deliverance on the day that God rescued him "on the day when the Lord rescued him from the hand of all his enemies, from the hand of Saul" (beginning of Psalm chapter 18). He describes God's faithful character with the words, 'shield', power, and says ...  more
Onward Christian Soldiers" is a Christian hymn written by Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924), who was an Anglican priest. A proper interpretation of this song shows it's about spiritual battle and this picture of the Knights on the horses just rocks like the song.

https://youtu.be/FBJffio8ZeQ?si=ZlKeWPpUVM_8HnQJ
London's Temple Church was consecrated in the year 1185. It was once the home of the Knights Templar in England. The warrior Knight's mission was to protect pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. In the process, they created the first international banking system which made them rich and powerful. They also created enemies who conspired to destroy them. The Templar's property was seized and eventually became the center of the legal profession in England.

https://youtu.be/0WI0TZrjQiM?si=nivMX7a...  more
In 1307 - and presumably on Friday 13th (October)- that King Philip IV "The Fair" of France arrested all of the Templar Knights.

Even the Grand Master of the order, the famed Jacques de Molay, was arrested in Paris, together with 60 of his knights. The religious Order had been the subject of rumors of blasphemy and irreligious practices, but these were false. A large number, including the Grand Master Jacques DeMolay and three other leading Masters, confessed and were burned alive. The leaders ...  more