For God Alone

Quarantine 2020 brings many adjustments to normal life, including assembling together, guaranteed in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, desperate times call for desperate measures, and, if we are to conquer the pandemic called Coronavirus, all of us are required to make sacrifices, no matter how great. But, folks, this pilgrim loves to sing, especially with other people, and preferably with S’s, A’s, T’s, and B’s (Sopranos, Altos, Tenors, and Basses). For years, I have told my choirs that God wired me to sing, and I cannot but sing! In the past few weeks, choirs have been 'meeting' through social media platforms. While these cyber-gatherings provide visual connection...

Today marks the conclusion of a decade of growing deeper through joy, contentment, as well as pain and sadness. On Monday, June 30, 2008, I drove into Tennessee to become Director of Music Ministries at Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Nashville. God had opened a door and pointed … east from our home in Frisco, Texas where, eighteen months earlier, I had begun serving as worship pastor at Stonebriar Community Church. While it had not been my plan to serve that pastor and congregation for such a brief time, it certainly was God’s plan. Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they...