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Wednesday Is for Worship: “The Glory of It All”

Worship of God is one of the greatest joys offered to us.  It’s what we were made for and where are souls find completeness.  However, worship of God is not just a joy offered to us.  It’s also an act commanded of us, as Psalm 100 so beautifully captures: 1 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth. 2 Serve the LORD…

Hope of the Nations – Lord

This week we continue the season of Advent, which is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas.  Our theme this year is “Hope of the Nations,” and we are thinking on the world-wide hope found in Jesus Christ.  We’re meditating on the ideas of light, life, liberty, love, and Lord. We focus this week on “Lord.”  We read in Philippians 2:8-11: 8…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Behold the Lamb of God”

It’s the Wednesday before Christmas.  My heart is full of the joy of the season, and I’m so glad that Jesus Christ took on flesh and dwelt among us!  In doing so, He lived the life that we can never live, that sinless life in complete obedience and holiness to God.  But, He also did more.  He not only lived the life…

Merry Xmas!!!???

Well, December 25 is almost here.  I pray that you have a Merry Xmas!!!  Oh wait, did I just unintentionally take Christ out of Christmas?   Every year we as Christians endure the seeming jab of people replacing the word “Christmas” with the word “Xmas.”  Given the increasing secularization of our great winter festival celebrating the incarnation of Jesus, it would seem…

Hope of the Nations – Love

This week we continue the season of Advent, which is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas.  Our theme this year is “Hope of the Nations,” and we are thinking on the world-wide hope found in Jesus Christ.  We’re meditating on the ideas of light, life, liberty, love, and Lord. Our focus this week is on love.  We read in Ephesians 2:1-7:…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Joseph’s Lullaby”

I pray your Wednesday is a blessed one!  Whatever the circumstances, if you’ll take the time to worship today, then undoubtedly blessed your day will be, and I’ve got just the song to help you.  It’s called “Joseph’s Lullaby” by MercyMe. It’s the only original song off MercyMe’s 2005 “The Christmas Sessions” album.  There are many, many songs focused on Mary and…

Why Not Me?

Deeply embedded in our human reason is the idea that bad things happen to bad people.  It’s this innate sense of justice.  How many times have your or I at least thought in the midst of hearing of some difficulty, “They got what they deserved,”? In our self-righteousness, we, of course, never say that about ourselves.  When bad things happen to ourselves,…