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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,…

Hope of the Nations – Liberty

  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 liberty.  We read in John…

The Adverbs of Serving the Lord

The very fact that God is called LORD and specifically Jesus Christ is called the Lord points us to the fact we who are His are to serve Him.  That’s what lords require and deserve—service. There are a multitude of reasons as to why we are to serve the Lord, but have you ever considered…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Drummer Boy”

When the Lord saved me in 1997 at the age of 17, I had artists like Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Led Zeppelin bumping and rocking in my car stereo system, but my much more sanctified and spiritually mature future wife began to introduce me to Christian artists.  One band that really moved me into listening to more Christian music…

Hope of the Nations – Life

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 life.  We read in Romans 6:23: 23…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “Welcome to Our World”

‘Tis the season to be jolly!  Over the next few weeks, WIFW will take on Christmas music, focusing on songs that help us keep Jesus Christ, the reason for Christmas, at the center.  Today’s song is “Welcome to Our World.” There are so many great Christmas songs, but in my opinion, this is one of the best. Written by Chris Rice in…

Hope of the Nations – Light

This week we begin our season of Advent, which is the Christian season of preparation for Christmas.  Christians prepare for celebrating the birth of Jesus by remembering the longing of the Jews for a Messiah.  In Advent, we’re reminded of how much we ourselves also need a Savior, and we look forward to our Savior’s second coming even as we prepare to…

Making Wise Choices (Podcast)

Recently I had the honor and privilege of being interviewed by my friend and early mentor Brandon Porter on the weekly radio and internet ministry he co-hosts called Biblical Thinking.  It was a conversation that was spurred by my article “Discerning Minds Want to Know: Sharpening Discernment for Our Trying Times.”  Through the interview, we highlight some of the insight from that…

Wednesday Is for Worship: “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go”

It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, and I have so many things to be thankful for.  How about you?  To help you give thanks, we’re going to go a little bit ancient-modern here, all the way back to 1882.  In that year, the blind George Matheson penned a song that gets to something that I am so very thankful for.  He called it…