After releasing a printable based on the lyrics to Awake My Soul, I got a few requests for more of the same.
So here’s a free printable of lyrics to the song “Enough” from the album Third World Symphony. Click the link below each image to download your 8×10 or 16×20 printable poster for free. View Post
I’ve been speaking and singing on behalf of Compassion International in 80 to 100 cities every year for seven years. And being the nerd I am I’ve studied the results and found that as crowds get larger they also become less compassionate. View Post
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My mom and Dad are coming into town today to stay the week. So we’re frantically dusting, mopping, grocery shopping, mowing…and I’ve got so much to write but no time to write it this morning. View Post
First Gresham preaches against being a pharisee. And now, easy quitting? This football camp of his is ruining my life. So he climbed in the minivan after yesterday’s practice and announced that he doesn’t want to play offense. Only defense. Now, this was coming from the kid who was a… Read More
The last school bell rang today. Yellow buses hummed into the neighborhood. And children from the cul-de-sac and just beyond soon filled our house. It will be this way all Summer. Kids eating watermelon around our kitchen table. Kids playing doctor in my office. Kids dressing up as princesses in… Read More
Today I find myself almost without words. Not without somethings to say. Just not able to say them. But the thing I feel most deeply today is the thing I have just enough words for… Thank you, Kelli, Amy, Scott, The Nester, Maggie, and Jolanthe. For every laugh, every word.… Read More
A few years ago a consultant advised Compassion International brass to change their organization’s tagline: “Releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name.” Why? Because Jesus may be God to some, but to others he’s fictional or offensive. Because removing Jesus’ name would make Compassion appealing to a broader audience. Because… Read More
“So do you travel with guitars to amuse yourself or to entertain others?” he asked as I shoved the hatch of the station wagon shut on our mound of luggage. “Hopefully I entertain others.” “You’ll be singing for us then? Oh good. What sort of music do you play?” he… Read More
Back in September my friends at Worship Leader magazine sent my rendition of “Just As I Am” out to their jillions of subscribers around the world. So first of all, thank you for that privilege, guys. If you haven’t heard the song, press the play button below. Just As I… Read More
She’s asking to quit piano lessons. She loves her teacher. She practices dutifully and cheerfully. But she knows all she needs to. All she needs to mimic pop songs from the radio. All she needs to write her own. She’s arrived. Many years ago, after the number one plaques were… Read More
I wasn’t bothered by turning thirty-eight until my mom gave me her “present”, a book on how to die well. “It’s probably Billy Graham’s last book,” she said trying to convince me I wasn’t receiving it because I’m now closer to the end of my life than its beginning. So… Read More
I had such great intentions to post book reviews here in 2011. Truth is I’m not a great reviewer. So, instead of a steady stream of articulate reviews coming at you twelve months straight, how ’bout some shoddy blurbs crammed in at the end of the year? Good? Glad you’re… Read More
Radio talkshow host and author Dave Ramsey wrote an open letter to the Occupy Movement in which he argued envy is behind the desire to raise taxes and redistribute wealth. The Huffington Post’s David Dunn, PhD responded, making the case that a Christian who does not back tax-payer funded government… Read More
There’s no such thing as a self-made man. On the back wall of the church hung a framed picture of Bill Hybels, our patron saint of attractional church. It was the early nineties when Chris Seay (pastor), David Crowder (music guy) and lots of their friends launched University Baptist in… Read More
I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else. -Charles H. Spurgeon I had no idea what a divisive… Read More
I don’t have any better words for you today than these I read this morning… What would you think of a pollster who issued a definitive report on how the American people felt about a new television program, if we discovered later that he had interviewed only one person who… Read More
Gabriella is my theologian, dissecting everything she’s taught, digesting it into questions I often can’t answer. “If God can forgive anybody for anything,” she once asked,”will he forgive Satan one day and let him into heaven with us?” “Someone had to be punished for my sin because God made that… Read More
I can hear him walking up the stairs, the smallest feet in the house making the biggest sound. I keep my head bent toward my laptop. I hear the jangling of his wrestling with the door knob. Then he gives up. And, truthfully? I’m glad. There’s a lot to get… Read More
I tried softer reeds. Then harder ones. I bought a new mouthpiece. Then went back to the old. And when these things didn’t turn me into Branford Marsalis quickly enough, I quit. I so much hated being last – embarrassed – that I quit. My band director dared me to… Read More
The first kiss, filled with stomach-knotting passion and newness, was shockingly good. But now, hundreds of kisses later? On the same lips? In the same arms? There’s no retrieving and reliving new. But in place of new is something else at the heart of the relationship, something she must remind… Read More
A nice surprise arrived in my inbox yesterday from Ric Sieben at Compassion International. More video in support of Third World Symphony! Take a look while I pack for a concert in Edmond, Oklahoma and a video shoot (with bacon) at Ann’s place in O Canada. Thanks, Ric! See you… Read More
Christian record labels still rely very heavily upon radio play and traditional marketing practices. But these days most stations can only play 12 current songs so that means most artists won’t be on the radio. And we’ve all evolved to ignore traditional advertisements haven’t we? So how do these label… Read More
“[This music is] caviar and escargot in a burger and fries world.” –Radio Station on why they’ll not play songs from Third World Symphony The line of cars wraps around the building at the edge of my neighborhood all day long and swells out into the street around noon. McDonalds:… Read More
My son loves the Pittsburgh Steelers. I love my son. So I’ve been learning about football – and a lot about life. Do What We Do I just finished reading Quiet Strength by Tony Dungy, a former Steeler who went on to coach his way to a championship in Indianapolis… Read More
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