A Little Luther in Celebration of Reformation Day

Note: If you don’t know that it’s Reformation Day, Google it. Because you should.

New MP3: Draw Near through Christ

James Koerts and I have teamed together for the first time to produce a new hymn and octavo entitled Draw Near through Christ. The choral arrangement is being released this fall as part of SoundForth’s ChurchWorks Choral Series. The hymn version will be released at ChurchWorksMedia.com soon. I’ll announce both when they’re available. In the [...]

Vote for MCS, Save a Life

Mentor Christian School, where my girls attend, has a great staff. Carpet? Not so much. They’ve applied for financial help via an online competition in which Bing is awarding a total of $250,000 to four needy schools. They need you to go give their project a 5-star rating to help them move on. Please take [...]

Pray for Don Johnson and His Family

Don Johnson‘s father was advanced to glory last night. Don discussed his father’s death in a grateful, hope-filled blog post. What confidence the gospel brings, even in the midst of sorrow. My friend and mentor Dave Wood, a friend of the Johnson family, suggested to me that we try to serve the Johnson family by [...]

Biblical Timeline for Dummies

I was halfway through college before I had a comprehension of basic Bible history. For all I knew, Elijah and Paul could have been pen pals. Ruth and Esther could have shopped together at Lydia’s purple store. And Exile and Exodus were cousins, right? The truth is, most Christians’ grasp of biblical chronology is almost [...]

Orchestration for I Run to Christ

Last week, I posted an MP3 of Stonebriar Community Church‘s congregational version of I Run to Christ. Paul Thompson, who arranged and orchestrated it, has kindly made the orchestration available for free download. You can get it here. He designed it to fit with the existing hymn version of the song (available for free here). [...]

Beautiful MP3, Encouragement from Chuck Swindoll

I was surprised and encouraged by a note I received this week from Paul Thompson, part of the music staff at Stonebriar Community Church, where Chuck Swindoll pastors. They recently used I Run to Christ (which I wrote with Greg Habegger) in a service and sent me a recording of it. I share Paul’s note [...]

Bob Bell’s OT Theologies Now Available

New books are introduced to evangelical readers every day. Some are the results of years of labor. Some—often the most widely read—appear to be thrown together over a number of weeks or months. But occasionally a book reaches the market that is literally the result of a lifetime of study. One such book is Bob [...]

New CWM Hymn: A Triune Prayer

We are thrilled to be able to make available a new hymn by Chris Anderson and Molly Ijames, A Triune Prayer. Many thanks to Craig Courtney of Beckenhorst Press, which owns the copyright on the song and is graciously allowing us to provide the hymn version as a downloadable PDF. You can purchase the Beckenhorst octavo here. Also, look for [...]

Twelve Years and Counting. Grace.

Tri-County Bible Church is officially a pre-teen. Sunday marked 12 years since the church was founded. I remember the first service like it was yesterday. I stayed up almost all night working on the message, the bulletin, visitor cards, and some silly bookmarks that seemed really important at the time. Afterwards, I went to lunch [...]