Today is the 6th Wednesday of Eastertide, the 50-day Christian season between Easter and Pentecost Sunday, which is May 19 this year. We’ll continue to focus on Resurrection songs until then. I want to take us back to 1863 today. It was in that year that Charitie Bancroft penned the lyrics to this powerful song. This Irish writer was not prolific in…
CONNECT people to Christ and POUR into their lives His teaching so they'll OVERFLOW for the glory of God
CONNECT people to Christ and POUR into their lives His teaching so they'll OVERFLOW for the glory of God
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Two Sundays ago, I began preaching through the book of Philippians. What an awesome word from God to us! For my first sermon, I focused in on v1:6, For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. That verse is one of the most encouraging…
It’s the third Wednesday after Easter, which means we are still in the church season of Eastertide (the fifty-day season of Christian celebration from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday). My friend Trevin Wax recently wrote about this very important church tradition that I honestly had never really thought about. He wrote: By Thanksgiving, radio stations will be playing Christmas music non-stop. In…
On this day, we remember that sometime between sundown on Thursday and and sunrise on Friday, Jesus was arrested and tried by the Jewish authorities. The sad irony is that the eternal High Priest who is Jesus Christ was rejected by the Jewish High Priest Caiaphas. 57 Those who had seized Jesus led Him away to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the…
Today is Holy Wednesday, the Wednesday before Resurrection Sunday. On this day, Jesus was in and around Jerusalem teaching, but undoubtedly He had Friday and Sunday in the back of His mind. On Friday, He would be killed by man as they nailed Him to a crucifix and momentarily forsaken by God as the sins of the world were imputed to Him. …
It is often said that Baptists don’t believe this or that Baptists don’t believe that concerning the Bible’s doctrine of election, which explains the first cause of a sinner receiving grace. Many times in making this statement about what Baptists don’t believe, the person confuses the doctrine of election with the doctrine of predestination. While these two doctrines are connected, they are…
What an awesome day it is to praise the Lord! May we do it until our dying breath!! Today’s worship song is one of the most moving songs I’ve heard in a while. Not only is it beautifully orchestrated, it also is full of biblical truth. I’m talking about “Your Great Name.” Written in 2008 by Krissy Nordhoff & Michael Neale and…
Welcome to this edition of Wednesday Is for Worship where my goal is to point you to great songs of the faith so that you might greatly worship the Lord today. Today our song is “Blessed Be Your Name.” Written in 2002 by Matt and Beth Redman and published through Thankyou Music, “Blessed Be Your Name” has been one of the most…
It’s Wednesday and time to remember that God gave you tongue for many reasons, but one of those reasons surely is to return praise to Him! Today’s song takes us back to 1739 when the great hymn-writer Charles Wesley penned these words. Although we typically sing only about a fourth of what Wesley wrote, I’ve provided the entire lyric below. Carl G.…
On Tuesday I posted on reevaluating the role of the evangelist. In that post I basically argued through my personal testimony that to ignore the role of the evangelist is to ignore the Scripture. Today I’ll explore why churches aren’t using evangelists as much these days and will try to put forth a way of going forward so that we can be…