“I Will Use Well” (Matthew 25:29) “To those who use well what they are given even more will be given, and they will have an abundance.” Matthew 25:29 2005/06 Verse of the Year Most of us want to plan our way into abundance — but Jesus calls us to something simpler (and harder): use well what we’veContinue reading “Day 28 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – I Will Use Well”
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Day 27 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Be Made New
Today’s post is the song, “Be Made New,” based off Belhaven’s verse-of-the-year from 2004: “there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes” (Eph. 4:23). Real renewal isn’t an event we remember; it’s a spiritual work that reshapes our thoughts and attitudes over time—beyond a moment and into a pattern. Spiritually grounded renewal actuallyContinue reading “Day 27 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Be Made New”
Day 26 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – God Alone Knows
Dear Friends, Since 2003, each year at Belhaven University has been guided by a “Verse of the Year”—a Scripture chosen by President Roger Parrott to encourage and shape the life of the faculty, staff, and students. For more than two decades, I have had the privilege of writing a song each year based on thatContinue reading “Day 26 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – God Alone Knows”
Day 15 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Living Symphony
Dear Friends and Family, Living Symphony is one of those songs that carries inside jokes, odd inspirations, and a few moments that still make me laugh to myself when I sing it. I slipped in a couple of jokes for one of my friends (you’ll know who you are). The sounds you hear after theContinue reading “Day 15 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Living Symphony”
Day 10 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – I Know A Savior (Whisper)
I was surprised when my dad told me that “I Know a Savior” had never been recorded before. While some of his other songs talk about the Christmas story in poetic, storytelling ways, embedded at the heart of this song is genuine personal human experience expressed in the “I know” phrases—“I know a trouble, IContinue reading “Day 10 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – I Know A Savior (Whisper)”
Day 1 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Judah’s Great Lion
Judah’s Great Lion – The Visitation 1989 Happy first (official) day of the 37 Days of Christmas in the year 2025! Check out the first family advent Sunday post if you missed it! Today I am sharing with you a song that my father, Doug Eltzroth, wrote while he was working as the “Composer inContinue reading “Day 1 of 37 Days of Christmas 2025 – Judah’s Great Lion”
Day 37 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Sovereign Lord
Sovereign LordLyric and Music by Douglas C. Eltzroth Sovereign Lord, as you have promisedNow dismiss us with your peaceAs our eyes have seen salvationAnd our souls have been releasedYou’ve prepared this revelationOf a truth that was concealedIn the sight of all these peopleLord, your glory now revealedSovereign Lord, as you have promisedNow dismiss us withContinue reading “Day 37 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Sovereign Lord”
Day 36 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – God Alone Knows
God Alone Knows Lyric and Music by Douglas C. Eltzroth God alone knows the wayGod alone knows the placeWhere wisdom is found reason is sound God alone knowsGod alone knows the wayGod alone knows the placeWhere wisdom is found understanding aboundsGod alone knows Enter through the gates of wisdom by fearing the LordAre you searching for the sourceContinue reading “Day 36 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – God Alone Knows”
Day 35 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Exalt His Name Unto the Nations
Exalt His NameLyric and Music by Douglas C. Eltzroth I know the God who flies with the cherubRiding on wings made of windHe broke through the sky, came to take care ofLost earth-bond souls he calls friendsHe’s often found holding the fatherless childHe’s often found crying with widows in griefHe’s often found bathing those mostContinue reading “Day 35 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Exalt His Name Unto the Nations”
Day 34 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – The Sling of David
Sing of DavidLyric and Music by Douglas C. Eltzroth You say you know the story of the giant that was killed by the little boyBut do you know exactly when and why Goliath fellIn his hand he held a warrior’s spear the shaft as large as I’ve ever seenAnd before him stood a soldier’s shield about theContinue reading “Day 34 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – The Sling of David”
37 Days of Christmas 