The second series our church did in 2024 was titled “Exiles,” and this series took us through the book of 1 Peter. This song emerged from that series and from my personal study of 1 Peter. If I had to summarize the book in a few words, it would be this: Peter reminds us that when we are saved through faith in Christ, we are promised that we will inherit eternal life with Him and begin to live a transformed life of obedience, even in the midst of persecution and trials....
Life has a way of bringing us to our knees. In those moments when our own strength and solutions fail us, we often find ourselves desperate, dejected and hopeless. But as believers, we serve a God who is greater than any problem we face. He is a miracle-working God who can rescue us from even the most desperate situations. During a particularly challenging season in my life, I found myself crying out to God because I knew only He could help me....
My church began the year 2024 with a series titled “Pause - From Rushing to Resting.” This series reminded us to pause and spend time with God first as the new year began. Instead of rushing into all the plans we had made for ourselves for the new year, we were reminded to rest in God first so that we could be rejuvenated to do the work that He wanted us to accomplish....
During my study of worship that I talked about in my previous post “My Attitude”, I came across the worship of God by the 4 living creatures in Revelation. Revelation 4:8 says, “Day and night they never stop saying: ‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come.’” I thought it would be really neat to take these words from these creatures and turn it into a song that I could sing during my personal time of worship....
We often treat worship and the singing of songs in church synonymously. I’ve always known that worship was more than just singing songs but I never really took the time to study it from Scripture. So I decided to study worship more deeply and go through every direct reference to worship in the Bible to better understand what it really means. I decided to take the result of that study and write a song about some of the things I learned....