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Wednesday Is for Worship: “Ain’t No Grave”

Well, it’s Wednesday, and I can’t make up my mind.  Have you been there before?  I do know which song I want to share with you, but I’m just not sure about which version.  Today’s song is “Ain’t No Grave.” This spiritual was penned in 1934 by the fairly famous singer-songwriter and Pentecostal Holiness preacher Bro. Claude Ely.  Ely pastored churches in…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Our God”

My calendar says that it’s Wednesday again.  So, let’s turn our attention to the worship of our great God.  In fact, today’s worship offering is called “Our God.” Written in 2010 for the Passion conference by the big time team of Chris Tomlin, Jesse Reeves, Jonas Myrin, and Matt Redman and published through Thankyou Music, the song was the first track on…

Extreme Makeover: Cosmos Edition

The other day I was thinking through the tragic loss of the fullness of what God created and blessed mankind with in the Garden of Eden. We live in a broken world. Indeed, Paradise has been lost. However, God has not abandoned His blessing to us because Paradise Lost is becoming Paradise Restored.

But even better is that God does not just restore Paradise. He improves Paradise. It’s like a cosmic Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. You know that on that show they never just restore the house back to what it was. They always make it way cooler than before. That’s exactly what God’s going to do with the universe! […]

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Healing Rain”

It’s Wednesday.  Last Wednesday was a dry Wednesday, but not this one!!  Mercifully, it is raining, adding to the couple of inches of rain we’ve already received here in July after a June where we saw around a quarter of an inch of rain for the entire month.  After a much-needed drink, my tomatoes and squash are blooming out again.  Yes!! It’s…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Indescribable”

Good morning on this Wednesday!  What a day it is to praise the Lord!  We just finished up our Vacation Bible School this past Friday.  We did Group’s “Sky” and had a wonderful time worshiping the Lord.  One of the songs we sang last week has been on my mind constantly.  It’s a newer worship song, but not brand new.  In fact,…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “My Song Is Love Unknown”

The hymn form of worship music is absolutely irreplaceable because it just lends itself to breadth, depth, and poetry.  Such is the case with today’s worship song called “My Song Is Love Unknown.”  The beauty and detail with which Samuel Crossman wrote in 1664 concerning our Savior is staggering.  When sung to John Ireland’s meditative melodic dirge from 1918, the song moves…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Majesty (Here I Am)”

Good Wednesday to you! This is the day the Lord has made.  We will rejoice and be glad in it!  Of course, there are manifold reasons to rejoice, but today I want us to think about rejoicing in God’s majesty.  In fact, that’s the name of today’s song:  “Majesty (Here I Am).” Martin Smith and Stuart Garrard of the band Delirious? penned…

The Demise of Death

One of the most haunting songs has to be the old mountain song “O Death.”  Most of us are probably familiar with Ralph Stanley’s a capella version made famous in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou. In this lifetime, we certainly know death.  On this Memorial Day as we remember the servicemen and service women who died for the USA, I…