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Before we continue with Jehoshaphat’s story, I want to back up to our over-arching “sing a new song” that has been our theme for the year.
You already know the Hebrew word for new, chadash — we looked into it at length last year. This morning, I want to look at its root word: also chadash, but with a slight difference in the rendering of the Hebrew characters. Read more
This morning: the big one sat on the couch with his favorite blanket, lost in the music that calms him. The tiniest one picked shoes out of the basket, occasionally wandering over for try-on help. And the little one slipped into the garage when I wasn’t looking. Read more
Can we talk about fight songs? And not the cheerleader, college football kind that rallies a crowd to their feet and energizes an entire stadium. No, I mean the nitty, gritty, square your stance, dig in your heels, get ready to fight the battle songs.
Months ago, I was driving back over the mountain from teaching at a women’s conference when I got this feeling like I was about to step foot into war — like Satan was about to unleash a plot to stop up the Spirit-given stream of continual words pouring out of me. Read more
Have you noticed how music has the incredible ability to transform the way you see something entirely? An ordinary, everyday caught-on-video moment overlaid with the right song suddenly becomes an epic home movie that pulls at all your emotions.
There’s a part of the book of Job when God meets Job, right in his questioning and suffering. Read more
Two weeks ago, I did a barre class on the beach. My legs shook like leaves in a brisk autumn wind and, eventually, felt like lead, refusing to move. But still, I forced them. Lifting and turning and standing and squatting to the rhythm of the perfectly-timed music and the background rhythm of the waves. Read more
