You might not have been thinking about totalitarianism, so let me help you change that. I’m told Jordan Peterson (Canadian psychologist, author and speaker) said that the antithesis of totalitarianism is — wait for it — play. If what he 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 →
There are lots and lots of Christmas songs, many Easter songs — and a few Pentecost songs. Maybe if more people knew what it is we celebrate at Pentecost, we’d have more songs about it. “The Very Same Power” is Continue Reading →
This peaceful song was written in 1903, the same year the Wright Brothers made aviation history at Kitty Hawk, but remained relatively unpublished for its first thirty years. Around the early 1930’s its reach grew, and by now it has Continue Reading →
How do we get to know someone better? Our song “In The Garden” suggests answers to that question. Please give it a sing-along listen, then lets talk about building warm relationships. Getting to know you It is not hard for Continue Reading →
Our song writer, Joseph Renville, was born in 1779 in a small village near the east bank of the Mississippi River in a place now called St. Paul, Minnesota, only four miles from where I was born 175 years later. Continue Reading →
This traditional song gives us the “heart” prayer of a person who wants the Lord to occupy the throne at the center of the person’s very being. Please give it a sing-along listen and see if you can put it Continue Reading →
Psalm 46:10 (NIV) says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.” The message of Psalm 46 has always been current information. The very week I’m Continue Reading →
The Bible tells of a certain fear that is able to keep people in bondage their entire lives. Wouldn’t it be great if a person could beat that fear AS A CHILD, and skip a life-time of bondage? “Fear Not” Continue Reading →
“Sweet Jesus” ?!? To me that sounded too familiar, maybe even irreverent. Are we talking about the Lion of Judah? The one “dressed in a robe dipped in blood” whose name is “the Word of God” — the “Son of Continue Reading →