For God Alone

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 ...