This song was why summer camp buses were invented. The song comes alive when accompanied by the wind howling through the bus’s open windows and the bus tires tapping their feet on the rolling asphalt. It’s a match made in Continue Reading →
When I was a kid our family vacationed at a YMCA camp in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. There I learned how to handle a canoe and pitch a tent. And there I learned to love singing Continue Reading →
God’s creative genius and love are seen in the fact that there are so many paths people can take to reach the same ends. Car broken? Take a bike. Bike broken? Walk. People are different and ways of getting things Continue Reading →
This delightful little song can lift tons of burden off our backs if we’ll let it remind us how huge salvation is compared to whatever worries trouble us. Please enjoy a sing-along listen, and come back for more. Prophets of Continue Reading →
The Bible is a book of contrasts that requires our best thinking. Romans 12 coaches us to live peaceably with all men. A few pages later, 2 Corinthians 6 warns us not to be unequally yoked together with unbelievers, and Continue Reading →
Sometimes our minds roar recklessly at two-hundred miles an hour but get us nowhere fast. God gifted us with a wonderful place to steer our thoughts even at times like that. Give this song a listen, then come back and Continue Reading →
This song is brilliant. When we first hear the song, it sounds like a kid asking for something. Well, maybe PRAYING for something. As we continue to listen, we begin to realize the kid’s request is remarkable because in the Continue Reading →
One reason we love the record of Daniel and the lions’ den is that it teaches us about real peace, real power and real life. These were very real for Daniel. They can also be very real for each of Continue Reading →
I heard a radio ad offering a service they said would replace my fear with peace. Their plan for peace is to show me how to get my money in order so I would be set financially for the rest of my life. The peace that comes from knowing we will have what we need is, indeed, wonderful. The trick is to see that not all peace is the same. To compare the peace that comes from a healthy bank statement with the peace that Jesus brings is to compare the light that comes from a candle with the light that comes from the sun. We can benefit from both kinds of light, but we must see how they are different. Continue Reading →
One big difference between a stick floating down a river and a human is that a stick cannot decide which way to go. Humans can decide which way to go — and must. This week’s song offers tips on going — and getting there — successfully. Please give it a listen, then come back and we’ll dig for treasure. Continue Reading →