My mother used to worry about me since I exhibited zero musical skills. She actually bought me a trombone and hired a teacher. He showed me the positions on the slide and the sound each made, then quit during the second lesson, when I played \u201cWhispering Hope\u201d by ear. I sang in the church\u2019s Youth Choir because I was the Pastor\u2019s son. I should have suspected something was wrong when the director suggested that I shouldn\u2019t feel forced to sing in the choir. Yet I love music. Most of my family and some of my best friends are musicians. My father was the only family member with less music talent than I, and he whistled everywhere he went. As a Seminary professor some of my best friends were music professors. I enjoyed going to lunch with them because they didn\u2019t have to mix theology with their vegetables. For a segment of my life I awoke every morning with a song in my head. My mother said it was an answer to her prayer and claimed God had given me her song. I\u2019ve actually put new words to existing hymn tunes, so I\u2019m not totally music-less. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said, \u201cAlas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!\u201d I don\u2019t want to do that. Neither do you. So, bottle it up no longer. Somehow, someway, let your music out, \u201cmaking melody in your heart to the Lord\u201d (Eph. 5:19).<\/p>\n
Join me this week in remembering the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Pray for Eric and Tricia as they settle back into Bangkok after a year in the U.S.
\n\u2022 Pray for Patricia as she changes job assignment to become a Resource Coordinator for the Ministry and Care Resources Department within Wycliffe Bible Translators USA.
\n\u2022 Pray for the Poles living in France with a population of 209,000. Largely Roman Catholic, in their context they have not been engaged with the gospel.
\n\u2022 Pray for the following metro Vancouver churches as they seek pastoral leadership: Richmond Chinese, Westlynn, Coquitlam Chinese, Living Word Chinese, Vancouver Chinese, and The Bridge Community Fellowship.
\n\u2022 Pray for me as I lead discipleship training at the Capital City Baptist Church in Mexico City next week-end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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