May 2026

My dear friend,

Christian culture defines who we are as Christians. Christian culture based on the Bible is an expression of our peculiar or characteristic Christian faith through music, art, and literature in society.  As you know, the secular humanists work hard to erase all traces of Biblical Christian culture and influence in American society. And many Evangelical Christians decry the power of secular humanists in the demise of Biblical Christian influence and culture.

However, many of these Christians have unclean hands because they had a hand in destroying our Biblical Christian culture. In a cultural rebellion to overthrow all tradition, churches threw out hymnals and replaced them with projected contemporary pseudo-Christian choruses devoid of Scriptural basis. Popular religious leaders advocated that in order to reach the youth of today, we must erase yesterday’s Christian worship. Christian traditions are seen as old-fashioned, backward, intolerant, and narrow-minded. In other words, churches must not sing doctrinally sound sacred songs because doctrine is judgmental: Bible doctrine condemns sin and preaches repentance and reformation.

Instead, religious leaders preach that in order to draw people to church today, we must offer a fun-filled, relevant, entertaining program. In other words, churches must adopt and adapt business methods and secular entertainment. And because the sanctuary must now be an auditorium for fun worship, we must sweep the past out of the Church.  All the old traditions - including hymns - must be trashed.  So, countless churches literally threw out the hymnals to show their disdain for traditional sacred music. The old hymns were treated with contempt as worthless garbage lacking literary or spiritual merit. 

But traditional sacred music is a part of Biblical Christian culture. And when you eradicate traditional sacred music, you eradicate another aspect of true Christian culture. And the more sacred Christian traditions you destroy, the more you destroy Biblical Christian culture. 

Christian tradition or custom, including sacred hymns, is an important part of Biblical Christian culture. To illustrate, for generations during the Christmas season, Christians across America and around the world united in heart and spirit by singing reverently “O Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing” and "O Come, All Ye Faithful.”  These old familiar Christmas hymns were based on Scripture - doctrinally sound. And they have lifted the hearts and spirits of countless Christians throughout the ages.  And when we sing these hymns today, we lift up our voices in kindred spirit with those who have sung these in years past, and those who will sing them in the years ahead. 

Yes, old familiar hymns bind our hearts together in Christian love. Their words are not just imprinted on our mind; they are implanted in our heart.  In times of sorrow, we find comfort in the words of such hymns as the following:

He Leadeth Me
Joseph Gilmore

He leadeth me! O blessed tho’t! O words with heav’nly comfort fraught!

What-e’er I do , where-e’er I be, Still ‘tis God’s hand that leadeth me.

Sometimes ‘mid scenes of deepest gloom,

Sometimes where Eden’s bowers bloom,

By waters still, o’er troubled sea, - Still ‘tis His hand that leadeth me.

Chorus

He leadeth me, He leadeth me, By His own hand He leadeth me:

His faithful follower I would be, For by His hand He leadeth me.

This hymn is Biblical. Psalm 48:14 assures true Christians...

For this God is our God for ever and ever:
and he will be our guide even unto death.

Hymns are sermons in song.

Hymns are songs that bring comfort to the hearts of people in sickness and sorrow, doubt, danger and anxiety. And hymns are songs that  bring joy to the hearts of people in times of victory, praise, and celebration. Yes, hymns are worthy of honor and worthy to be sung. Sacred hymns that are sung with a reverent spirit are a vital part of our Biblical Christian culture that separates us from the secular culture.

Surely secular humanists rejoice because Rick Warren, the New Apostolic Reformation, and others of the New Church Order destroyed the Old Church Order of Biblical Christian culture - reverent and holy worship to a holy God. Many congregants were hoodwinked into throwing out sacred Christian traditions such as sacred hymns and replacing them with secularized religious songs of the New Church Order - unbiblical "Christian" culture.

We must repent and reform our churches.

We must restore Biblical Christian culture.
 

Blessings,

Karen Pansler Lam, J.D.
Liberty Advocate
http://www.libertyadvocate.com