In the months leading up to May 17, 2021, I was rocking along composing and recording and writing. But I severely injured my left rotator cuff that day. This was followed up with a surgery in August and physical therapy for several months. This was a painful process and it knocked me out of these pursuits. Thereafter, when things were …

JOHN 3.16: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (ESV) Jesus’ reference to Israel and Moses and the bronze snake in the wilderness in verses 14 and 15 certainly establish that God’s salvation through Christ provides redemption with the Jewish people as the …

JOHN 3.14-15: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, (15) that whoever believes in him may have eternal life.” (ESV) As Jesus expands His explanation of the Gospel to Nicodemus, He begins to communicate that the Gospel is for all of the world, rather than being a Gospel …

JOHN 1.5: The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. (ESV) Jesus said in John 8.12, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (ESV) I believe Jesus is expressing himself metaphorically with the meaning that the light that comes from …

JOHN 1.4: In him was life, and the life was the light of men. (ESV) We have been made by and through Jesus Christ, and he is therefore our source of life. Whether the verses say, “in him”, or all things were made, “through him”, or we say “by him”, they all point to the truth that our origin of …

“I Have Seen the Lord”, words and music by Paul Hayden 1 CORINTHIANS 15.3-7: For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, (4) that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures (5) and that he …

“The Unsearchable Love of Jesus”, words and music by Paul Hayden JOHN 19.31-37: Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away. (32) So …

“This Upper Room”, words and music by Paul Hayden JOHN 14.21: Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him”. (ESV) In the upper room where Jesus spent his final time with his disciples, as …

“Take Up Your Cross”, words and music by Paul Hayden MATTHEW 20.17-19: And as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, (18) “See, we are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will …

JOHN 1.2-3: He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. (ESV) The Bible begins with the revelation, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (ESV) I believe that the word “God” is a reference to God, the Father, the first …