Christmas is the season of giving and the season of asking. Asking God for things is a theme throughout the Scriptures and a theme in my life, for sure! Here’s a song for children and their families – simple but pretty profound at the same time…I’m still trying to grasp the concept of how GodContinue reading “Day 13 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – I Asked God”
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Day 12 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – I-M-U-R-F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N
One of my favorite sentences that Jesus ever spoke was, “Forgive them, Father! They don’t know what they are doing.” Take a listen to another song of mine from back in the day when one of my focuses was writing for children. I confess, I am forgiven! I-M-U-R-F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N Words and music by Douglas C. EltzrothContinue reading “Day 12 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – I-M-U-R-F-O-R-G-I-V-E-N”
Day 11 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Hello There, Children of the World
This song is not new to my children, but this arrangement is. (It was re-recorded on The Choices Project several years later) I love the intro of this version, spoken by Micah Joy (Harris) Macaulay – she was probably 5 or 6 years old…now she’s a pastor of worship in Chattanooga. Find her on facebookContinue reading “Day 11 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Hello There, Children of the World”
Day 10 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – A Guaranteed Yes
Tessa, our first born, was 1 year old when I recorded the children’s album, It Takes Love, for Children of the World / Campus Crusade for Christ. It was part of a curriculum and not so much part of our music ministry to children and their families as my album, The Choices Project. So, I’mContinue reading “Day 10 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – A Guaranteed Yes”
Day 9 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Sophia
In the Hebrew (the language of the Old Testament) every noun has a gender – wisdom is feminine, “Sophia”. In the Book of Proverbs 8, wisdom is personified as a woman, actively calling out for people to choose her path of life and understanding; this imagery is used throughout the book, to emphasize the value andContinue reading “Day 9 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Sophia”
Day 8 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – To the Glory of God
“Glory to God in the highest heaven…” giving glory to God is a major theme of the Incarnation/Christmas story – the messengers from Heaven stated it clearly to the shepherds that glory was ascending to God and peace was descending to earth. My young family was part of the dream and part of church plantContinue reading “Day 8 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – To the Glory of God”
Day 7 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Awesome Most Delicate Lord
Let’s go back to listening to a “whisper of a song” – and specifically about the coming of Jesus to earth – a Christmas song if you will. (Whisper of a Song” – is the phrase I use to describe the recorded demos of my songs. It seems more accurate than saying, catch a “glimpseContinue reading “Day 7 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Awesome Most Delicate Lord”
Day 6 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – I Can Talk to God
I’ve spent a lot of my life on stage: musician, teacher, storyteller, pastor, singer-songwriter, actor, worship leader… and the stages have been small and large, close to home and on the other side of the world. Now the stage I’m on most often is in my hometown leading during chapel at Belhaven University… that said, theContinue reading “Day 6 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – I Can Talk to God”
Day 5 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – A Glimpse of a New Man
Living in Boulder, CO gave me the opportunity to be connected to several expressions of Christ’s church. Several men’s groups that beat into me some strong godly ideas and teachings and beat off me some useless and dull edges… (iron sharpens iron) One gathering was an early Friday prayer breakfast from whence a few ofContinue reading “Day 5 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – A Glimpse of a New Man”
Day 4 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Heal Me O Lord
Jeremiah wrote in what we call the 17 chapter of his book, “The sin of Judahis inscribed with an iron chisel—engraved with a diamond point on their stony hearts” I relate to Judah in that I can be described in the same way – with the same heart condition. I also relate to the womenContinue reading “Day 4 of 37 Days of Christmas 2024 – Heal Me O Lord”
37 Days of Christmas 