Reading familiar Scriptures from a fresh perspective helps God’s Word come alive for me. Katy Nichole’s Christmas song “O What A King” is sung from Mary’s perspective and caused me to revisit the details of...
Have you ever experienced deep darkness? I’m talking about the kind of darkness that envelops you so tightly it affects your breathing. That only begins to scratch the surface of the depth of darkness we are in without the light of Christ. In...
When Ben Fuller sings, “Making my Father proud looks a whole lot different now” in his new song “Proud,” he is ripping pages out of my story and laying them bare. I spent a lot of energy trying to please earthly men. What I...
There’s a phrase in the lyrics of Phil Wickham’s song “Hymn Of Heaven” that comes directly from Revelation — “death will be no more.” There are many things we don’t know about the new heavens and the...
The best way to explore deeper water fast is to dive in. You would never dive in the shallows — that’s dangerous. There’s no place to dive in the shallows. You can pretty much see everything from the surface. But God calls us to...
I think it’s an excellent problem to have. The problem that Zach Bolen, lead singer of Citizens, shared with me as the foundation for the song “Everything And More” by Citizens. The problem is that words don’t seem to express...
There are truths in Scripture that make us feel uncomfortable. Sometimes we don’t think they make sense. Other times they bump up against a belief we hold that doesn’t align with Scripture itself. Riley Clemmons’ song...
If the gospel message were a song, it would be “Thank You Jesus For The Blood” by Charity Gayle. The good news is that Christ’s sacrifice covers our sins offering us eternal salvation. Join me as we explore the Day of Atonement in...
We are the workmanship of a creative God. Our new lives in Christ are supposed to mean something. We are called to walk in a manner worthy of the calling on our lives, and God planned out the good works for us to walk in. Taylor Leonhardt’s...
It doesn’t matter how thick the walls are to us; it only matters how thick the walls are to God. When Andrew Ripp sings of our fears coming down like Jericho walls in his song “Jericho,” I was inspired to study the story leading up...
