Music Review: The Ball Brothers

If you watch the Gaither’s Homecoming Series, you may recognize the Ball Brothers.  For me their performance at church on Sunday was my introduction to this amazing group.   The group started out with four brothers.  As of this time two of the brothers, Stephen and Joshua,  have left the group to pursue other ministry opportunities.  The remaining two Ball brothers […]

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Second Chances: Rahab

Sometimes life and circumstances takes us down roads we would not have chosen.   We do not know the reason Rahab became a prostitute, but we do know that God used her and redeemed her.  She is one of four women listed in the genealogy of Jesus.  She is even listed in the Faith Hall of Fame that can be found […]

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Behind the Song: His Kind of Love

Have you wondered where I got my tag, “Sharing HIS Kind of Love” from? The phrase comes from the song by the same title.  His Kind of Love was written by Marijohn Wilkin.   For 15 years I was Daddy’s accompanists on the piano.  This was a song we performed on a regular basis.  After his death, I took the Easter […]

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Music Review: Alone Yet Not Alone

Occasionally, a song will just grab my heart, and minister to me.  When this happens, I’ll say “this is a song I have to sing.”  That was my reaction the first time I heard the Oscar nominated {and later rescinded} “Alone, Yet Not Alone.” The music has a haunting quality, which fills your soul.  There are so many times that […]

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Second Chances: Job

There are times when life is hard and I wonder how much more I can take.  There have been times when I’ve wondered if I’m being tested the way Job was.  Sometimes I’ve wondered how he dealt with so much pain and loss without becoming bitter and resentful.  Job is very different from, Jonah, who defied God in the beginning. […]

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Rebel to Redeemed: Train Up a Child

Yesterday morning the church I attended honored their graduates.  I was touched that in addition to the high school and college graduates, they also honored their kindergarten graduates.  I thought about my own training.  We are told to train a child from a young age.   Proverbs 22:6 says, “Train up a child in the way he should go,  And […]

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Behind the Song: One Day at a Time

Many times it is difficult to see the path ahead.  All we can do is take things one day at a time. The song “One Day at a Time” was written by Marijohn Wilkin when she was fifty-three years old.  By this point she’d known considerable success as a songwriter of country music. However, she’d also suffered extreme heartache and […]

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