I was privileged on Sunday to perform a concert to benefit the Lumberton Christian Care Center in Lumberton, NC as they began to realize their dream of building a facility that will provide shelter and much-needed support services to homeless families in one of the poorest counties in North Carolina, including mothers with children, a growing population where most shelters are able to take only men. Once this facility opens, their next goal will be to provide counseling and job preparedness/placement…Read more
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What's Behind Be Here Now
The Word never changes. But the “words” certainly do. The words we use to describe the word, to sing about it, to relate it to others, change with every generation.
In 1873, the words included “visions of rapture,” “angels descending,” and being “washed in blood,” but even though people still sing “Blessed Assurance” from time to time, I don’t know a single Christian, however devout, who expresses their spirituality in those terms today. The folks with whom I live and share ministry are no less…