Tag: Christian Music

How to Get a Clean Slate

Yesterday in church our Youth Minister Colie gave the sermon because our pastor was at the men’s retreat. She shared a wonderful illustration that I liked so much I wanted to share it. She said that we all start with a clean slate, like a...

If You Can’t Say Something Good

We just got home from a great weekend with family out of town for our belated Christmas gathering. We had a lot of fun, but it was a long weekend away from the comfort of home. For some reason this morning the song “Nothing at...

Silent Night, Holy Night

Tonight is Christmas Eve. It is the night of one of my favorite church services of the year because we get to sing Silent Night at our candlelight service. The growing glow of candlelight as each person lights the candle of the person next to...

The Soul Felt Its Worth

I’ve been thinking all week about posting on my very favorite of all Christmas song – O Holy Night. It’s my favorite to sing in church and to listen to at Christmas time. There are quite a few good arrangements of this song available. MercyMe...

The Role of Mary in the Christmas Story

The sermon series at my church for the Advent season is on Encountering God. Each week Pr. Dave is sharing about how different people encountered God as part of the Christmas story. Yesterday we heard about how Mary encountered God, with a focus on the...

O Come O Come Emmanuel

We are now in the season of Advent, a time of preparation for Christmas. I decided that for Music Monday during Advent and through the day after Christmas I want to share some of my favorite Christmas songs and why I like them. The first...

Taming the Wild – A Poem

The poetics prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today was to write about the WILD. My first thought was of a song by Johnny Cash called “The Beast in Me” (see video below). I thought of the line in that song, “God help the beast in...

To Know God Is Heaven and Freedom

So many people avoid church because they think they have to clean up their act and follow all the rules first. But these people have it backwards. To be fair, the problem may be that the church often looks down on these people instead of...