We need a pick me up every now and then. Few things have the power to provide it than the right songs at the right time. That's why, instead of offering one pick me up song for a #praylist, I'm concluding the Go from Low to Glow topic in our Year of...
It’s uncomfortable to admit we have flaws. But we do have them. You have flaws. I have flaws… we all do. In fact, it’s a fairly constant and obvious fact that everyone on our planet is broken in some way. Whether you believe the story of Adam and Eve or not – there is...
Sitting at a table on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry, seated next to my wife and about three dozen banking industry peers, I could not help but consider the sense of injustice in my heart. My peers and I all were partners with the host company who provided us with a...
I think many of us can relate to feelings of being directionless, hopeless, aimless, and more or less empty. In our desperate hope, we reach out to God. We call on him and beg for mercy even though we are undeserving of it. We’ve strayed too far and too often from God...
In life, we sometimes have our expectations pleasantly go unmet or exceeded by the actual experience. For example, when you go to a concert to be entertained and learn about forgiveness; both of others – and more importantly – yourself. Such was the case when my wife...
The story within the song is sometimes laid all out with no need for reading between the lines for the listener. Matthew West’s “Next Thing You Know ” is one of them and in so doing, it provides a wonderful illustration of God’s work in our lives. In the first verse,...
On my way to work while waiting at a red light around roughly the year 2000, I saw a bumper sticker on the car in front of me that read "God Bless the Freaks" along with a radio station frequency. Intrigued but not thinking it was from the area, I tuned the radio to...
I love a song you can crank and feel the strength and passion stir throughout your whole mind, body and soul. That’s what I get with Crowder’s “I Am” off the Neon Steeple album. No matter how down I am, no matter how worthless I am feeling, no matter how much the tugs...