Won’t It Be Wonderful There as recorded by Ricky Skaggs. There where the tempest will never be sweeping us, Won’t it be wonderful there? Sure that forever the Lord will be keeping us, Won’t it be wonderful there? Won’t it be wonderful there (wonderful there) Having no burdens to bear? (over there?) Joyously singing with …
From Diary Of A Pastor’s Soul: The Study is the antioffice. Diary Of A Pastor’s Soul, M Craig Barnes, Brazos Press, 2020, pgs 82. I’ve never heard it expressed this way, but this sums up why I call the spaces I work in ‘study’ and not ‘office’.
Down In The Valley To Pray recorded with vocals by Doc Watson who brought the song to contemporary notice and Alison Krauss who brought it to prominence on the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack. This album features an accomplished grouping of instrumentalists, but on this song its the lyrics, harmonies, and vocals that carry …
The greatest mark that the gospel leaves on a soul is not the capacity to never get it wrong, but the capacity to incarnate grace, forgiveness, and community in imperfection. This can only occur when we have a more developed understanding of how the Gospel brings renewal and recreation to the events and relationships of …
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