Friday is for Heart Songs Update: It is now 25 years since I wrote the lyrics to the song below. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the music that my friend wrote for it. So, I am asking again for help of one of my subscribers. Who wants the challenge of putting these words … More A Music Challenge for Songwriters
Tuesday is for Preaching Much to do and little time so here is an offering to inspire you to pay whatever price to be holy so that your preaching will be powerful. What follows is from Kairos Journal. What Makes Great Preachers—E. M. Bounds (1835 – 1913) Edward McKeendree Bounds was an American Methodist minister … More Be Holy if You Would Preach with Power
Friday is for Heart Songs I was washing my face at the bathroom sink when I started to weep at a thought that flew through my heart. I was thinking about an upcoming meeting with my daughter, a daughter birthed before I was a Christian, before I was married, before I was a pastor, who … More “I love you because you are mine.”
In September of last year, through the generosity of a friend, I was able to go to a U2 concert at Soldier Field in Chicago. I am away at a seminar in Georgia for the next 3 days and so I am re-posting something from my old blog related to my thinking going into the … More The One Magnificent One – What Worship is All About
This morning I was reflecting on the NT view of worship and how radically different it is from conceptions of worship in the OT. Jesus truly made a seismic shift in the worship patterns of the Church. In the OT worship was about a place (the Temple), and the materials (incense, birds, lambs, bulls etc.), … More Worship is What We Were Made For
“Purity of heart is the will to one thing!” Soren Kierkegaard “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1) What joy the apostle Paul must have felt as he wrote these words! He had murdered multiple times in multiple cities but the gospel declared that even murders and … More Reading of Old Joy
Sunday Musings אֱלֹהֵי אֲדֹנִי אַבְרָהָם About a year before I left New Song Church, I preached through the life of Jacob. For me, it was a wonderful time of discovery anew of the great grace of God in the lives of the patriarchs of Israel. Now, as I begin a new season of life, I … More To Be Known by the God I Serve
Friday is for Heart Songs . . . . . A man reading a newspaper saw a photo of birds chillin’ on electric wires laid out like sheet-music. He tried playing the birds as if they were notes. This is what it sounds like. The delight to me is that only God knew until a … More The Music of the Heart of God?
Heart Songs Read Psalm 62. “How our hearts long to trust in something, anything other than You Lord! It is so easy for us to run away, to trust in education, or technology, or friends, or persuasiveness, or hard work, or personality or reputation or books or human calculation. But it is You we must … More Psalm 62 and Trust Issues
Psalm 44:1-26 This is what You have done for us in the past. (1-3) A This is what we are doing now. (4-8) B Where are You God? (9-16) C We continue to trust You now. (17-22) B This … More Psalm 44 and the Silence of God
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