August 2025 – Aliens and Pilgrims
10 posts published by Aliens and Pilgrims during August 2025| Aliens and Pilgrims
10 posts published by Aliens and Pilgrims during August 2025| Aliens and Pilgrims
I wrote this song around 15 years ago. It was probably one of my earliest attempts at writing lyrics after I began to seek the Lord, and looking back, it highlights what the Lord was doing in my heart. I …| Aliens and Pilgrims
Lay aside every weight, every sin, and run the race with endurance. We are called to run! Not lollygag to the finish line, but to give all our mind, and soul, and strength to the race. Paul says to run …| Aliens and Pilgrims
The writer of Hebrews commands us to lay aside sin if we ever want to run the race with endurance. But is that all? Every Weight It’s not just sin that keeps us from running well. We are called to …| Aliens and Pilgrims
An exhortation taken from a sermon on Hebrews 12:1-2 To the suffering saints: Some of you are going through terrible difficulties. Trials in the home. Trials in health. Trials in your marriage. I’ve been praying for you that God would …| Aliens and Pilgrims
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to …| Aliens and Pilgrims
Why do you believe what you believe? And I’m talking specifically to those who claim Christ. Why do you believe what you believe about Jesus? Why do you believe what you believe about sin, or obedience, or children, or marriage, …| Aliens and Pilgrims
Our house is full of music. We listen to music. We play music. We sing. And not just songs. We sing sentences to each other. (Don’t judge me). We just love music in our home. When my oldest was little …| Aliens and Pilgrims
There seems to be an unwritten rule among some Christian households that there must be a separation between church and home. We do church on Sunday, but the rest of the week, we move and act as though those things …| Aliens and Pilgrims
I remember thinking, “There’s no way I could love my wife more than I love her right now.” The idea of growing in love for my wife seemed ridiculous. How do you love more than com…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. Col 3:16 I want to answer this question: When …| Aliens and Pilgrims
There is a golden thread that runs through Hebrews 11. We read about these great men of faith, and we are encouraged to live lives of faith ourselves. As I was studying about the first three men me…| Aliens and Pilgrims
10 posts published by Aliens and Pilgrims during July 2025| Aliens and Pilgrims
When Christ returns, He will usher in a host of blessings, but one of those blessing shines above the rest. There is coming a day when we will see the face of our Savior. “No longer will ther…| Aliens and Pilgrims
“How do you help others cultivate private worship?” I had never been asked that question before, and to my shame, it took me by surprise. I had thought about discipleship in terms of Bi…| Aliens and Pilgrims
10 posts published by Aliens and Pilgrims during June 2025| Aliens and Pilgrims
Stop right here. Read the title again. Fathers, do you believe that God has given you a special role within the home? You are the leader and head of your household (Eph 5). You are commanded to tra…| Aliens and Pilgrims
As I’ve been reflecting on worship this month, I have been encouraged in my own soul to value the worship of God’s people. I’ve written nine new posts on worship this month, but I…| Aliens and Pilgrims
In the age of the internet, there are a thousand articles, books, podcasts, etc… on any given topic. Worship is no exception. And it is impossible to fully vet every piece of information that…| Aliens and Pilgrims
I’m afraid that we only view God as partially in charge. “God,” we say, “whatever you command, I will do… within reason.” We want to totally submit ourselves to …| Aliens and Pilgrims
When your church gathers for worship on the Lord’s Day, do they sing? And I don’t mean, do words come out their mouth in a rhythmic melody. I mean do they really sing? Are their hearts lifted up in…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Am I in the right key? Why is my guitar out of tune all of the sudden? Let’s make sure we hit that key change clearly. Who are those visitors? Is the church really singing? Why am I sweating …| Aliens and Pilgrims
The worship of God in song is a glorious thing. Biblically speaking, it can be accomplished through heavenly choirs (Rev 5) or the mouths of children (Matt 21:16). It can be through choirs on the w…| Aliens and Pilgrims
10 posts published by Aliens and Pilgrims during May 2025| Aliens and Pilgrims
What are you looking for in a church musician? There are a lot of things that come into my mind. What’s the instrument? How skillful are they? What is their work ethic like? How available the…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises!Psalm 47:6 I love when God makes his direction clear. I may have a hundred questions about worship, but this isn’t on…| Aliens and Pilgrims
What is the reason for a focus on worship? I’m planning to write each week this month on worship. But why? Is it simply because I love music? No, even though that is true. Is it because that&…| Aliens and Pilgrims
God loves children. “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward” (Psa 127:3). When the children came to Jesus, He welcomed them and blessed them (Matt…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Everywhere we look, there are people deconverting, deconstructing, and running to some new and interesting heresy. They fashion themselves as wild and free. They have shaken off the shackles of ort…| Aliens and Pilgrims
“After about 20 minutes of prayer requests finally we got down to prayer. So there we were, kneeling at our chairs, and nobody much was saying anything, so I thought, ‘Well if they̵…| Aliens and Pilgrims
Each Sunday night we have a prayer meeting. The church gathers, there is singing, a short exhortation from a passage of Scripture, and then we pray through that passage of Scripture. That is how th…| Aliens and Pilgrims
“What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!” Rom 6:15 To be under grace, and not under the law, is a glorious gospel blessing. Jesus, through hi…| Aliens and Pilgrims
God is at work in us who believe (Phil 2:13). He empowers us by His Spirit to live the Christian life (Gal 5:16). I love this truth. It is crucial for us to understand that our work in the Lord is …| Aliens and Pilgrims
Christians work hard. We work to be holy as God is holy (1 Peter 1:15). We work to obey God, to love God, and to make Him known. We read our Bibles, and pray, and give, and evangelize. We strive to…| Aliens and Pilgrims
It is a glorious task to search out God’s word. “It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out” (Prov 25:2). When reading God’s wo…| Aliens and Pilgrims
A few months ago, we started reading the book of 1 Kings with our kids during family worship. It starts off with a bang. You get the death of David, the beef with Adonijah and Solomon, the beginnin…| Aliens and Pilgrims
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. 1 Cori…| Aliens and Pilgrims
