I’ve been following my automatically generated read through the Bible in a year plan, and occasionally, when nothing strikes me to write on my blog, I will likely share with you some thoughts from my daily readings. For the last couple of days, I’ve been working my way
You know that moment, like at the end of Lord of the Rings, when all the tension relaxes, and you get to just breathe a long deep cleansing sigh. You know, like at the end of a long day. This cd is like that for me. It just seems to
Let me deal with the first half first. We’ve inexplicably lost our mouse. It really ought to be somewhere, but until we find it, we’re stuck using touch pads. (that fills the part about mice ) So, Sunday night, I was really fired up about today. I planned to
As a church family, we were blessed yet again by sharing the Lord’s Table this morning at church. What I thought was perhaps the most moving part was that as we celebrate Christmas, we look forward to Good Friday and Easter. I always find it interesting that everyone thought
Sometimes when I look at what I do, I feel like a surprising amount of my time is dealing with tradition. Sometimes I’m striving to not break some traditions of the church, or sometimes, I’m striving to break traditions that either aren’t Biblically accurate, or have become
And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!” Luke 2:13-14 I love the scene that Luke paints in his account of the Christmas
This week is the Sunday for our quarterly communion, and as a part of our worship, we will be singing a new song by Matt Maher and Matt Redman called Remembrance. They say that they set out to write a song for communion because there are few communion songs in
I’ve given it some thought, and I thought we’d take a break for a while from talking about Psalms and talk for a while about the songs we sing, are going to sing, or don’t sing. My intention is to take each song and work through it,
Amos 5:21-24 21 “I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies. 22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; and the peace offerings of your fattened animals, I will not look upon them.
Book Reviews
Last Friday I read through the new Glenn Packiam book Secondhand Jesus. Glenn is one of the worship pastors of New Life church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He runs the New Life School of Worship and regularly leads worship for the college ministry there, theMILL. I’m sure you will
Psalm Studies
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. Psalm 27:1-2 (ESV)
Psalm Studies
” Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!