We just spent a month enjoying the amazing hospitality found in Branson, Missouri. (Shout out to our new friends Ken and Pastor Danny and all the wonderful folks at Grace Family Church!) One of the “Branson” experiences was watching “A Continue Reading →
Some say only a crazy person would claim they hear from God. I think it is crazy NOT to learn to recognize God’s voice. Give this bright “little” song a sing-along listen, then come back and we’ll talk about hearing Continue Reading →
The best lessons often use the fewest words. Pastor Les is one of many fellow-laborers in the Lord that taught me things I still use. One of his best quotes — and his straightforward manner of speaking — were inspirations Continue Reading →
Just another simple “kid’s” song — yet if the devil had known what we sing here, he never would have crucified the Lord of Glory, Jesus Christ. This is a song about the best-kept secret EVER. God alone knew about Continue Reading →
First thing in the morning, people don’t like a loud voice waking them up. Proverbs 27 wisely teaches: “Don’t wake up your neighbors early in the morning with a shout of “Good morning!” They will treat it like a curse, Continue Reading →
Isaac Watts lived about three hundred years ago in England and has been called the “Godfather of English Hymnody”. He did not earn that title for writing the most songs ever. Though Watts wrote a respectable 750 hymns, a younger Continue Reading →
Calming the storm was one of the miracles Jesus did. It’s recorded in Matthew 8, Mark 4 and Luke 8. (Note this was not the time Jesus walked on water. That was another boating adventure the Gospels added to his Continue Reading →
(Give Me Oil For My Lamp) For such a playful song, it certainly seems to ask for a lot — “Give me” – 12 times. “Keep me” – 8 times. “Make me” – 3. What does God think of all Continue Reading →
We try to live healthy. Sometimes we need extra help. For many, the best they know is first to reach for pills or doctors. I’ve been helped by both. I DO want to offer the following thoughts on what a Continue Reading →
Here’s an eye opener: Acts 2 begins, “And when the day of Pentecost was fully come …” What’s this “fully come” thing? Pentecost was literally as old as Moses! Yet something remarkable happened on that particular Pentecost in Acts chapter 2. We get the idea from scripture that God Almighty had been on the edge of His seat looking forward to THAT Pentecost since the beginning. Continue Reading →