SONG: It’s a funny thing. Two weeks ago, I had never heard this song at all before. It was just recently a new worship song at church. Now I hear it every time I put K-LOVE on the radio or listen to Hillsong Radio on Google Play. This song, which focuses on the sheer beauty…
Scripture and a Song: Come Alive (Dry Bones)
SONG: Happy New Year! No matter what your year was like last year, this is a new one. So much is ahead. This song is my personal anthem for 2017. It’s a big job for a song, but Come Alive (Dry Bones) has it all. The hopes and desires of my heart are outlined in its…
Scripture and a Song: Welcome to Our World
SONG: This week, I have chosen another more contemporary Christmas song. Chris Rice’s 1997 song Welcome to Our World is a quiet, tender ode to the Newborn King. The song itself mirrors the gentle humility with which Jesus entered this side of Heaven. SCRIPTURE: So unlikely, isn’t it? The Messiah, the long awaited Savior, was born…
Scripture and a Song: Noel
SONG: I can’t stop listening to Noel by Lauren Daigle. It’s SO good. It’s also a song many may not have heard before, a more contemporary Christmas song. What makes it so cool is that it is kind of like a worship song. Daigle’s passion is so evident and powerful when she sings. And the lyrics…the lyrics!…
Scripture and a Song: O Little Town of Bethlehem
SONG: O Little Town of Bethlehem was written by Rev. Phillips Brooks in 1868. He wrote it three years after a remarkable experience in the Holy Land on Christmas Eve in 1865. The story goes: On Christmas Eve, he distanced himself from the thousands of other pilgrims who had arrived in the Holy Land for Christmas….