Country music singer Jason Aldean finally had a song make it to the US Billboard Hot 100, thanks in large part to a controversial video. Aldean didn’t write the lyrics for “Try That in a Small Town,” but he took the heat for filming a video in front of the Maury...
Watch out and guard yourselves from every kind of greed; because your true life is not made up of the things you own, no matter how rich you may be. Luke 12:13-15 Questions for Life Groups Read Luke 12:13-15 and reflect on what it means to you. Now read verses 16 to...
Lori McKenna captured the essence of wisdom passed on by parents, grandparents, and guardians in her hit song, “Humble & Kind.” She won a Grammy for best Country Song, “Song of the Year” at 2016 CMA Awards and “Country Song of the Year” at 2016 American Music...
The Kingdom of heaven is like this…those who are last will be first, and those who are first will be last. Matthew 20:1-16 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 20:1-16. What thoughts and images come to mind as you read this text? Can you identify with the workers?...
I enjoy tipping more than the cultural norm suggests. I’ve done this for most of my adult life and I realize that my ability to do this is one sign of my privileged life. But it’s still a choice. One change to my tipping habit changed because of COVID, however. After...
Samuel told the people who were asking him for a king how a king treats you…A king will make soldiers of your children…A king will take your best fields, vineyards, and olive groves…You will become slaves. And when that time comes, you will complain bitterly because...
Lee Greenwood was pleasantly surprised when Universal Studios decided to release his new song, God Bless the U.S.A., as a single. This iconic song lifted the spirits of Americans after each national crisis, including Desert Storm, Hurricane Katrina, and the terror...
An angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and told him to take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Matthew 2:1-23 Questions for Life Groups Read Matthew 2:1-23. What images come to mind as you read this text? Do you sometimes feel like you’re...
Our companion book for our new worship series is David Leonhardt’s book, Ours was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. Amazon’s website describes his book this way: Two decades into the twenty-first century, the stagnation of living standards has...
We end our series, Letters, on the last day of 2023, realizing that 2024 is a presidential election year. On January 7, we begin our new series, Country, based on a book titled, Ours was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. We transition from Hall Mark...