For God Alone

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...

The following is my first FOR GOD ALONE blog, written and initially posted in June of 2018, while I served Central Baptist Church Bearden (Knoxville), TN as Music/Worship Pastor. Recently, our daughter sent a song suggestion to her music/worship pastor dad. A few weeks earlier, a member of my team sent the same song. (Anna and Jeff are just two of several persons who are and have been caught in adoration of the living Christ, and who, at my invitation, regularly send song suggestions, for which I remain extremely grateful .) Then, not long after, the text of that same song captured my attention as I worshipped while standing beside a long-time friend during a recent trip to Waco, Texas. “And as you speak a  hundred billion galaxies are born; in  the vapor of your breath the planets form.  If the stars were made to worship so will I!”* I believe that humankind exists to worship God. God created me, redeemed me, sustains me by his Spirit, and has commissioned me ...