'First Tuesday' Tagged Posts
SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
Dear Friends, I have spent this week being reminded of how great a gift music is. God has created us to be people who worship Him. And He gave us music as a way to engage our hearts and minds in expressing our love and devotion for Him. Along with others form our worship team at Redeemer, I’ve been in Nashville with more than 6,000 people thinking about how music is also a tool we use for fulfilling the Great Commission. You’ve probably…
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Dear Friends, Some of you know the name Tim Challies. For the past 20 years, Tim has been blogging at his website www.challies.com. After posting a few book reviews and some other articles on his website, Tim came to a point where he realized he either needed to stop altogether or take blogging more seriously. He set a goal of posting every day for a year. Before long, his hobby became his vocation. Today, about a million people visit his blog each…
AUGUST 31, 2022
Dear Friends, Tonight was a big night for us at Redeemer. Twenty-seven kids were loved on, poured into and prayed for as we kicked off our very first evening of Awana. There were fun and games. There were group times where they learned about the verses they will be memorizing. By the end of the evening, everyone headed hope excited about what God has planned for these precious children this year. And maybe, Lord willing, more like them in the weeks ahead. I think what…
October 13, 2021
Dear Friends, King David posed the question in Psalm 2. “Why do the nations rage? James, the half brother of Jesus brought the issue closer to home. “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?” We look at our contentious culture and wonder why we are so divided as a nation. Why is there conflict in our world? In Psalm 2, David says that the nations rage because the Kings of the earth set themselves against the Lord. Why is the conflict in…
October 6, 2021
The word glory is one of those Bible words we use a lot without thinking much about.
August 11, 2021
Dear Friends, Are you sick of reading about COVID? If so, I apologize in advance. You can skip to the second half of this portion of the newsletter for the latest church-related COVID info. I was all wrong when it came to predicting what was going to happen with COVID. Like I missed it by a mile. I remember when I first heard about cases in a nursing home in Washington state. The news media was sounding the alarm and (I thought) blowing…