Today my son was married. Again. What a story of love, forgiveness, grace and mercy. A family was made whole again because of the faithfulness of God, whose mercies are new every day! Husband, wife and daughter are now a family again for the first time in about 10 years. [...]
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I am substituting for Pastor Currie in his Sunday School class this morning, teaching in Philippians 1. Philippians is a great book full of joy and rejoicing, with some form of that word used roughly 12 times (I’m not too good at counting – may be more, may be fewer). Paul prays with joy, he [...] Sojourn Music, a ministry of Sojourn Church, just released a new Christmas CD, “A Child Is Born”, with many reworked carols and a couple of new songs (at least to me).
Sojourn Music has done a number of CDs, but my favorites are the two based on the works of [...] I love the Psalms. You may not have picked up on that yet from reading this blog, but it’s true. I’m not sure why, other than the fact that the psalmist expresses so many of the thoughts I have, but so much more eloquently than I can. They are meant to be sung, and there [...] This phrase is repeated many times throughout the Psalms (and elsewhere in the Bible). It bears repeating. Praise the LORD, all nations! Extol him, all peoples! For great is his steadfast love toward us, and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever. Praise the LORD! Psalm 117 Share this:EmailFacebookPrintShareDiggStumbleUponReddit I’m singing the offertory Sunday, doing one of my favorite songs, but with a new melody. I wrote about it earlier, in this blog post, but the text bears repeating here. The lyrical melody line is nothing like what you’ve sung in the past or heard on “Little House On the Prairie” and breathes new [...] O safe to the Rock that is higher than I, My soul in its conflicts and sorrows would fly; So sinful, so weary, Thine, Thine, would I be; Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee. Hiding in Thee, hiding in Thee, Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee. In [...] We’ve been learning this song the last few weeks in a small group meeting at church. We’ll be singing it Sunday morning for the first time with the congregation as a whole. What a wonderful song to use to begin a morning of praise and worship, because, really, how can I keep from singing? [...] Today’s reading, Psalms 87-89, brought to mind two songs, one a hymn by John Newton in 1779 and the other a chorus from my youth that is still sung today (occasionally). I really love reading the scriptures and having songs I’ve sung jump off the pages at me as these two did today. “Glorious Things [...] How often do we flirt with personal disaster, thinking we can do whatever we want and not be affected? The evidence to the contrary is all around us, yet we don’t seem to learn. Here’s what George Whitefield had to say on the subject back in the 1700′s, taken from today’s reading in “George Whitefield: [...] |
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