A Reason to Sing: His Mercy Shall Follow

I love to sing. And as a music director, one of my greatest joys is hearing God’s people sing boldly in worship. Lately, however, with the unwelcome circumstances that surround the world, my singing has turned to grumbles,…

Help for Parents Quarantined with Teens

I was talking with a friend recently who expressed anxiety about the next several weeks, and I immediately empathized expressing my own concern over the pandemic. She interrupted my spewing of random medical statistics and said, “Oh, honey….

Liturgy for a Pandemic

Pandemic. It’s a word with which we’ve all quickly become familiar as the COVID-19 virus has spread. In a time of unprecedented events and unforeseen challenges, we find ourselves needing help in how make sense of it all….

Rooted in Prayer: Thanksgiving

Yesterday on the youth ministry side of the blog, we looked at St. Paul’s “rubric” of three different types of prayers we can speak over our students. Today, we’ll take a closer look at prayers of thanksgiving. Those…