It’s Wednesday, and it’s time to arise! Today’s Wednesday Is for Worship song will call you to do just that as we sing along with “O Church, Arise.” Written and published through Thankyou Music in 2005 by Keith Getty and Stuart Townend, who have shown themselves to be today’s premiere modern hymn-writers, this song is a battle hymn for the church. We…
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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During the first decade of my childhood, my family had a big old wood-burning stove in our house to keep us warm in the winter. There was one thing that we always had to keep in mind: keep the fire stoked so that the fire would stay hot. I remember distinctly watching my dad, or doing it myself as I got older,…
Wednesday has rolled around again, and we have been given another opportunity to praise our great God for the provision of Jesus Christ! Today’s song has an ancient hymn feel to it, but it was written in 1989 by Dawn Rodgers and Eric Wyse. I’m talking about the most excellent song “Wonderful, Merciful Savior.” Published through Word Music, I first worshiped the…
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…
I still remember going to pick out my wife’s engagement ring back in 2001. It was a tough choice. My heart wanted to get her one that was a big as a golf ball and had few hundred facets to it, but unfortunately my wallet could only secure a few sparkles. Nevertheless, she loved it, and said “yes.” To our great joy,…
Welcome to the first “Wednesday Is for Worship” here in 2013! The beginning of the year is always filled with much mystery and excitement as our minds try to forecast what the year may hold. If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, certainly you should hope that the new year will bear growth in your walk with Jesus. In fact, you…
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…
“The Promised One of Old Is Finally Here” Welcome one and welcome all! Gather round, sit down, and hear Of the baby born in a manger stall, Who conquered death, sin, and fear. It’s a story ancient old, But some still fail to know it. So I bring it bold This morning afresh as a preacher poet. The beginning of that babe…
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…
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…