One of the most commonly sung and beloved songs in our church liturgy is “Come Thou Fount.” Tucked away in the second verse is a little understood line, “Here I raise my Ebenezer.” [1] We sing it, but we don’t know what it means. For the Israelites, the raising of an Ebenezer was the practice of building a small pillar of stones (1 Sam. 4:1; 7:12). It signified that God had been faithful—He had…

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