New Words To An Old Tune — Rise Up O Men Of God

Rise up, O men of God!
War now is our chief thing
Be done with trinkets that will pass
And Fight for our great King

Rise up, O men of God!
Your families look to you
For training so they too can fight
For all that’s dear and true

Rise up, O men of God
The Church now needs it’s men
To cast out those who mar Christ’s name
And to lead to Victory’s end

Rise-up, O men of God
Now is no time for peace
The Battle must be joined by all
Our warring must increase

Rise up, O men of God!
Have done with lesser things.
Give heart and mind and soul and strength
to serve the King of kings.

(Vs. 1-4 BLM; final verse is from the original Hymn)

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

2 thoughts on “New Words To An Old Tune — Rise Up O Men Of God”

  1. Oh, this is superb. Our people need hymns for our faith and for our cause and for our sense of identity and unity in Christ. Thank you for posting this. I’ve been noodling with a hymn for a few years, but am not yet satisfied with it. I’ve got the lyrics finished, and the melody. What I need is someone with a background in arranging who can flesh it out with SATB parts, etc.

    Again, thank you for this! My wife and I will sing it to the old tune on Sunday.

    1. It is I who should thank you Mr. MacPherson. Your blog post on sorrow in the world was magnificent and providentially came at just the right time.

      Thank you for your kind words.

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